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XXI. The Island of Amboyna lies near Seran, the chief Town of it hath also the same name, and is the Rende∣vouz for the gathering, and buying of Cloves; the En∣glish lived in that Town under the Protection of the Castle, which was Garrisoned, and well manned by the Dutch. It happened that in the year 1622. a Japan Sol∣dier discoursing with the Dutch Sentinel of the Castle, was suspected, tortured, and confessed that divers of his Countrymen had contrived with him to seize and sur∣prize the Castle; also one Price an Englishman, and Pri∣soner with them, accused other Englishmen of the Facto∣ries, who were all sent for, and put to horrid Torture; the manner this; first, they haled up the Prisoner by the hands with a Cord against a large door, fastening him upon two staples of Iron 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the top; as wide as his Arms could stretch, his feet 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the ground stretch∣ed out at length, and full wideness, fastened beneath the

door; then they wrapped a cloth about his Neck and Face so close, that no water could go by; then pouring water leisurely upon his head, and filling the Cloth up to his Mouth and Nostrils, that he could not draw breath, but he must withal suck in water, they so con∣tinued, till it forced his inward parts to come out at his Nose, Eyes, and Ears; stifling, and choaking him into a swound or fainting; but being taken down, they made him vomit out the water, and being somewhat recove∣red, they tortured him again four or five times, his Bo∣dy being swoln three times bigger than before, his Cheeks like Bladders, his Eyes staring out beyond his Eye-brows; one Colson being thus tortured, yet still de∣med their Accusation, whereupon they burn him un∣der the Paps, Arm-holes, Elbows, Hands, and Feet, till the fat dropped out of their Torches, then they lodged him in a Dangeon, where his flesh putrified, and Mag∣gots bred in it, to a horrid and loathsome condition, till at the end of eight days they were executed, in March, 1623. at which instant there was a sudden darkness, and a Tempest that forced two Dutch Ships out of the Har∣bour, which were hardly saved; the dead were all buried in one Pit, and one Dunkin their Accuser stumb∣led at their Grave, and fell stark mad, and died so with∣in three days after. Also a sickness followed at Amboyna, of which several Dutch died. The names of the English thus inhumanely dealt with, were, Captain Towerson, Tompson, Beaumont, Collins, Colson, Webber, Ramsey, Johnson, Fard, and Brown. Sanderson Hist. K. James. p. 577.