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THey forced us to Trade at second hand. 1. In Ternata, under their Fort Tabuche. 2. In Motir. 3. In Ti∣dore. 4. In Balvan, Hillo, Amboyna. 5. At Banda. 6. Poloway. 7. The Coast of Cormandel, near the Arsenal at Jacca∣tra. 8. Their chief places Bantham, Ja∣pan,
Jamby, though we advanced them to all these places. They represented us as Pyrats, and when they had done any mischief, said, they were English Men, untill for our safety, we were fain to di∣stinguish our selves from them by the so∣lemnity of November the 5th and 17th.
They contrived to blow up our Ware∣houses; Forbad us all Commerce upon Queen Elizabeth her Death, made all Christians so odious, that the first questi∣on in those parts was, Are ye Flem∣mings?
They seized our Yards, Wharffs, &c. giving order to kill every English Man, that would not swear fealty to them; up∣on the erecting of their Fort at Banna, intending to put all English into an old Ship, and blow it up. They search and stop our Ships; give out that they are un∣der a King: Making us pay a Custom at Bantham. They seized our Ships at Poloway, although the Island was given our King; Leading our men about the Streets with Halters about their Necks and an hour glass before them; intima∣ting, that after that ran out they should be hanged.
And (though the Mogul would not look on them till Sir Thomas Roe assured them they were our friends) they seized our Polaroon, 1617. Suborning the slaves to burn our Ships; loading our men with i∣rons, dismembring some, setting others la∣mentably wounded, in hard Grates; where∣in their leggs swelled so, that they could go neither in or out without great misery; Pissing over their heads in Dungeons eve∣ry Morning, and allowing them but a half-peny loaf and a pint of water a day.
It was proved at Jaccatra, that the States were seven years plotting a War between the English and the Dutch at the Indies, threatning likewise to land sixty thousand men in twenty four thousand flat-boats in England.
They carried us in Cages from Port to Port, boasting that our King was their Vassal.
Though we assisted them between the years, 1577. and 1625. in their Indian trade, so that they got 1500 Tuns of Gold in private hands; besides 400 in common; How did they use us in Am∣boyna?
They disputed our Right to the Sea,
stopped our entrance to, and Trade at Bantham, Scanderoon, Guinee, Angola, &c. Burned our Factories at Jambee.
They surprized us at Guinee, abused us in the restoring of the Island Polaroon, which they have promised from time to time, since 1622. They would needs, forsooth, give us Law in the New Nei∣ther Lands, which is but a spot of ground they held of us by courtesie.
They put our men in nasty Dungeons in Castle-delmina, to lie in their own Ex∣crements, having not bread and water enough to sustain Nature; leaving the li∣ving and the dead (after exquisite tor∣tures) to lie together. These injuries (with infinite more of the like nature, to the value of 600000 l. in Goods) being aggravated with their preparations for War to maintain them, even when his Majesty solicited them to Justice and Peace, will make it evident to the world, that, War (which being defined, the State of two parties contending by pub∣lick force about Right and Wrong) is become necessary to us, since equity is denied, and we are so long eluded of due satisfaction for those many injuries we
have so frequently sustained by them. Their unworthiness and impiety is very hainous toward Heathens, much more towards Christians, and most of all to∣wards the English, who have been their chief promoters, continual Patrons and greatest Agents under Heaven of rais∣ing them to that height and mightiness they are now arrived at. And lastly, I shall refer the Reader to his Majesties Royal Declaration, from all which any competent judg may gather, Reasons ma∣ny and weighty enough why his offended Majesty of Great Britain no longer de∣lays to vindicate his own Soveraignty and Peoples Rights, whom God long pre∣serve in honour and safety and give him victory over all his Enemies.