Dutch being landed at Tancoratt the Javans all left Terrytyassy except the Sultan two Pengrans and two English men which were employed as Gunners at sight whereof the King being troubled set fire to the Palace himself and fled up the Hills and about a Month after the young King sent to his Father and promised him his Freedom and Liberty if he would come and live with him in the Fort who consented to it upon the following terms viz. as he was informed That the English French and Danes might have the same liberty that they had formerly and that the Dutch Renegado should be turned out of the Fort and that when he came in no Dutch-man should stir from his Quarters which was consented to But three dayes after he was in the Castle the Dutch desired the Son to demand his Father's Treasure who told him that he had given it all to his Son Pengran Probaya who is gone up the Hills with Four Thousand Macassars and Mallayans The 18 th July 1683 all the English being going from Batavia for Surrat the Dutch Council in Bantam sent for the aforesaid Ambrose Moody and after Examination discharged him and ordered him to take his passage to Batavia in a Dutch Ship. When the two English Men which had been with the old King came down the Hills the Javans carryed them before the Chief of the Dutch who ordered them to go before the young King who when he saw them gave them their liberty to go where they pleased But three dayes after the Dutch sent to the Pengran who lives in the English Factory and ordered him to keep the English Gunners close Prisoners All which was told and affirmed to him by the Brother of the said Pengran The 22th of August 1683. The Agent and Council of the English Nation set sail from Batavia for Surat at which time the Dutch had Wars with the King of Jambee and the King of Jehore and on the West Coast of Sumatra and with Rogia Pelatta the King of Macassar who formerly served the Dutch but is now fled from them with his Forces and dayly Mallayans and Macassars go from Batavia and Bantam to his assistance The Dutch at Ambonia sent this year as he hath heard several of them confess Fifty Dutchmen to Batavia in Irons because they began to Revolt Sometime before the English left Batavia the Dutch had been a fitting of nine ships and a Fleet of Prowes to go against Macassar but finding they had not men sufficient to man them were forced to forbear till next year Now they suffer no Java to wear either Launce or Crease or any other Weapon and the best Java that is in Bantam must pull off his Cap to any Dutchman Although the Dutch have not above Three or Four Hundred Men in Bantam yet the Young King hath not power to act any Thing and all Javans pay to the Dutch at their Marriage Ten Rs. 8 / 8 and Two Rs. 8 / 8 per month for each Fishing Prow and Two Ditto a year Head-money and several other Taxes which makes the Javans daily run from Bantam to Pengran Probaya So that now he hath about Ten Thousand Men in the Field and is in expectation that the English will send to His assistance The Dutch Received the Letters which were sent by the Ambassadors and interpreted them as they pleased And would not suffer the Ambassadors nor no Java to speak to the Young King but by their Linguester The Young King with his own Hands did crease his Uncle Pengran Coloone and keeps his Brothers which came in fast in irons Pengran Keedull did come in with the Old King but finding how severe the Young King was made his escape with several other great Men. The Dutch could not perswade the Young King to sign to their Articles at which they are much troubled The Dutch have perswaded the Young King to turn out of Bantam all Europeans the Moors Banyans and the Chineses In January 168 2 / 3 Ambrose Moody did see in Bantam the Two great brass Guns which came from Tonqueen which he thinks the Company have not charged to accompt The Young King of Bantam must pay to the Dutch for every White Man that they lose in the Wars or by sickness Thirty Rs. 8 / 8 and Twenty for each Black. They have lost already by their own confession Fifteen Hundred Europeans by sickness and by the Warrs since the 18th of July 1683. the Chief of the Dutch was poisoned in Bantam and very oft as the soldiers go to Market they are killed with Clubs The Young King by instigation of the Dutch keeps His Father close prisoner and suffers onely one slave-Woman to bring him Victuals which she puts in at a Window and keeps Centinel always at the door In the time of the aforesaid Moody's imprisonment there was sent to him in Bantam from Mr. Gurney which did belong to the Kempthorne a Letter by the Hands of Nicholas Dios which he did ask leave of the Dutch to deliver and had consent but within two days after the Dutch put the said Dios in prison and would not discharge him before the English came from Batavia which was about five months time after his first imprisonment Signed Ambrose Moody I Ambrose Moody above-named do own the foregoing Relation or Narrative to which my name is subscribed to be drawn by my self and of my own Hand-Writing And I do make Oath that all and every particular therein is true according to what I have heard from very credible persons or been my self an Eye-witness of as the same is exprest by me in the said Narrative Sworn the 25th of June 1684. before Sir John Moore Signed Ambrose Moody The Dutch Commissioners Instructors their First Paper presented to the Lords Commissioners Decisors To the most Honourable Lords my Lords the Commissioners appointed by the King of Great Brittain and the Gentlemen appointed Commissioners by the Lords the States General of the United Provinces for the Decision of Differences arisen between the East-India-Company of England and that of the said Provinces upon the Subject-matter of Bantam Most Honourable Lords AS the Directors of the East-India-Company of the United Provinces have been very sensibly moved to see that the differences of Bantam have been able to cause a difference between the two Companies whose interest is so much never to be dis-united so they have been very glad to understand that it hath pleased his Majesty to name four Lords as Illustrious by the Qualities of their minds as of their birth and office to labour jointly with the Deputies of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces in the decision of the said differences and to prevent by the wayes of Justice and Equity this coldness from ever being capable of sowing seeds of bitterness which might be able to destroy the remainder of this brotherly love which ought to be the Bond of Union and good Intelligence between the two Companies The under-written
enjoying the protection of a Crowned Head and of a Monarch for whom the Dutch Company doth protest they have the utmost Veneration be elevated above a Company who can boast of a Protection only of a Republick yet their said Company cannot make such ill use of their quality as to oppress and trample on the Company of Holland in that manner as will be so far from pleasing his Majesty that it will doubtless bring upon them his Royal Indignation As to the Answer of the Lords the States General to the Memorial of Sir John Chardin since that instead of producing the same it hath pleased the English Deputies to refer themselves only thereunto The subscribed will also refer to the same being assured that your Honours will not find there what is alledged by the English Deputies but on the contrary will see what the Subscribed have said thereof in their Answer So that there needs only the pains of reading of it to be undeceived As to what the Subscribed said in their Answer That it was a very strange thing that the English Company who had only their Residence and Factory at Bantam should now pretend to the City and Fort of Bantam The English do by their third Paper say That the Factory and Fort built with their Money were worth all the rest of the Buildings on that place As if the price and value of their Factory and the Money which they may have lent the King which is not believed no more than the value of their Factory which was only an old building could give them any right of Propriety and Lordship over the City and Fort of Bantam which is contrary to all Laws Natural and Civil which the English Gentlemen being also well aware of They add that they do not ground their pretensions thereupon but do say that the Old King of Bantam was a Lawful King and his Son only Conditional and at the will of his Father This is a new method of acting and a strange way of proceeding after the Subscribed have given themselves the pains to prove in their Answer by solemn and authentick proofs that the Old Sultan of Bantam did assign over his Kingdom to his eldest Son without reserving to himself any thing even not so much as Tartiassa the place of his retreat And that his Son having by vertue of this Assignment ascended the Throne did send his Embassadors every where and that he was acknowledged as a Lawful King not only by the Deceased King of Great Brittain of Glorious Memory but also by those of the English Company Now they come and say that the Young King was only a Conditional King and at the will of His Father without refuting the proofs of the Dutch Company and without proving such condition and dependance as is now alledged The inveighing against the Young King of Bantam is a mark of animosity as to which the Subscribed having already declared their sentiment in their Answer they will forbear to make any further mention thereof at present As to the question of cui bono the Subscribed having endeavoured in vain to cause the English Deputies to apprehend the force of their Argument They do not see cui bono and to what ends they should break their heads any further about it since it is evident by their triplique or third Paper that they apprehend no more of it than if the Subscribed had proposed Riddles to them As to what follows about the pretended Cruelties of the Hollanders their sanguinary humour and of the mild temper of the English It is a sign of animosity and self-love which seldom hearkens to Reason As to what is so much insisted on that the Subscribed should propose as to the exclusive Contracts that the Dutch Company could sufficiently prove in time and place what they have so often alledged and do still alledge as to the right of the said Contracts this is without any reason or ground and certainly if it were their business to prove that Right now the Subscribed would make it appear that there is nothing better grounded the same being all duly explained and limited The Subscribed will finish this their fourth Paper adding only that Mounsieur Van Dam is in no wise satisfied with the proceedings of the English Gentlemen as to his particular and that he could have wished as he mentions in his last Letters that instead of putting his name in the triplique or third Paper in so odious a manner they would have produced the Letter therein mentioned by which it would have appeared that all that Mr. Van Dam wrote about the conduct of the Governour Spellman in the affairs of Bantam was grounded only upon a supposition of things which he had heard and time having discovered them to be false it would not be at all generous to alledge or insist on such a Letter at present Dated at Westminster 3 Decemb. 1685. Signed G. Hooft Iacob Van Hoorne S. V. Blocquery A. Paets The next day being the 4th of December the Lords Commissioners Decisors made some Propositions verbally to the English Deputies to be considered of which Sir Josia Child c. desired their Lordships they might have in writing which was accordingly given them under Mr. Francis Gwyns hand their Lordships Secretary in the following words December the 4th 1685. At the Lord Treasurers Lodgings Present Lord Treasurer Lord Privy Seal Earl Sunderland Earl Middleton It was proposed by their Lordships to Sir Josia Child and the rest of the East-India Company to be considered of First That the Dutch should withdraw their Forces from Bantam and demolish the Fort and leave all things there in the same condition they were before the War between the Father and the Son And that it shall be Lawful for the English to build a Fort without interruption from the Dutch. Secondly That there shall be an agreement that for the future there shall be no Treaty made with the Natives to exclude either Nation from Trading to the places they now Trade in Signed Francis Gwyn The said Proposals were duely considered by the Committee of the East-India Company who made the following Answer unto them the 9th of the said December To the Right Honourable the Lord High Treasure of England Lord Privy Seal the Earl of Sunderland and the Earl of Middleton Lords Commissioners appointed by the Kings most Excellent Majesty for determining the differences between the English and Dutch East-India Companies according to the Treaty of 1674-75 May it Please your Lordships THe Court of Committees for the East-India Company have this day seriously considered the two Propositions made to us by your Lordships the fourth instant at my Lord Treasurers Lodgings And as to the first it is our humble opinion that the Dutch have no sincere meaning that we should live in security at Bantam in Neighbourly Peace and Friendship with them unless they do consent to deliver the Fort undemolished First Because since they do agree to withdraw
the Honourable English Company Sirs WE received last Night your Protestation by which we understand to our great Admiration the Complaints which you were pleased to produce for the siezing of a certain Persian Boat rowing amongst our Ships which you pretend to have hired for the unlading of your Ship the Bengall Merchant as also accusing us for detaining the Goods for some time which were carried in her In answer to which ye cannot be ignorant how that this Port and Persian Bay hath been blockt up with Eight or Nine Ships for almost a whole year And although our Agents be attending the Persian Court to compose those differences Nevertheless our Men were Hostilely driven from the Coasts our Flagg thrown down and that according to report the Inhabitants of the City of Gombrone threatned us that we should be overwhelmed here in this Port with the Persian Sea Forces which things Nature it self teacheth us to prevent And forasmuch as it seems good to us to destroy all the Persian Ships yet it never came into our thoughts you should incur any Damage by it as you your selves very well know it was not done in the unlading or lading of the Ship Williamson who came and went although loaden with Persian Goods But on the contrary we offered Yesterday to your Interpreter David when the aforesaid Persian Boat was seized on sailing amongst our Fleet our Long-boats for your Service to unlade your Ship and for that very reason we were no hindrance at all in the least to your Affairs And that our Ships might be rendred secure from the imminent dangers of our roving Enemies who affirmed they sailed under your Name and by your Order But you seem to incline rather to accuse us very unjustly that we had seized on your Goods being two Chests of Rose-water rather than to accept of our kindness in offering our Long-boats The aforesaid Interpreter David took along with him those two little Chests with the same Boat which brought him from the Shoar whilest that sloop was carryed down to our Ship. And seeing the Case is thus you seem to darken the truth of things by patcht-up Fictions and forged Tales This your so ill-grounded and strange Accusations does not at all concern us seeing that even from the beginning of this Expedition we have patiently borne all those Calumnies by which we have been aspersed for some time by some of your Nation amongst the Persians And loseing Ground here in our Affairs especially by your promises to them That you with Six Ships will drive us from this Port and Castle of Kisim Concerning the which we can produce sufficient proofs and withal manifest we gave you not the least Cause But all things were carryed on with such apparent loss to our Company And moreover you did intend also to force us to suffer the Boats of our Enemies to pass and repass us safely Therefore we protest in the Name of the Dutch East-India Company That we will be Innocent of all such Damages Wounds Slaughters Losses and other Inconveniences which may arise from one Cause or other Dated from the Ship Blew Hulke at the Siege of the Port of the City of Gombroon 17 th May S. N. 1685. Your Most Affectionate Friends We the underwritten do affirm that the foregoing Protestation was Delivered Rehnier Casembroot W. Lycochthon Jacob Van Askerdyck Wr. V. Bullestraete Claas Meynderw S. Visnigh The Protest of Captain John Goldsborough against the Dutch Admiral Dated June the 1st 1685. WHereas there is a Treaty Marine between our Most Gracious Sovereign Lord the Most Serene and Mighty Prince CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the Vnited Netherlands to be observed through all and every the Countreys and parts of the World by Sea and Land concluded at London the First day of December 1674. In which Treaty there is Liberty for the Subjects of the King of England to trade freely to any Ports and Places in the World without hindrance or molestation although the said High and Mighty Lords the States General or any of their Subjects be in actual Hostility and War with such Ports and Places Now these presents shew that the Ship Bengall Merchant John Goldsborough Commander in the Service of the Honourable the Governour and Company of Merchants in London trading to the East-Indies arrived in Gombroone Road in the Gulph of Persia and in the Dominions of that King the First day of May 1685 where were Six Ships belonging to the Dutch Vnited Netherlands East-India Company riding before the Town of Gombroone Commanded in chief by Rehnier Casembroot as Admiral who pretended to be at Wars with the Persians and victoriously then rode in Triumph in the midst of a few Trankeys or Persian Boats which he had seized On Sunday the Third of May the said Admiral sent me word aboard our Ship Bengall Merchant and the same in Writing he sent ashoar unto the Honourable English East-India Companyes Factors in Gombrone That they being now at Wars with the Persians would not suffer any of the Persian Boats to help unlade our Ship To which I answered That the next Morning Boats were appointed to come off to begin to unlade us and that in each of them there would be an English Man whereby the Admiral or his People might know that they were Boats imployed in the English Service and I desired they would give us no hindrance or molestation in our business Our Factors from the Shoar sent off one to the said Admiral and his Council whom he found resolved to stop all Persian Boats from coming off to us On the Fourth of May Six Boats were provided by our Factors for the unlading our Ship of the Honourable English East-India Companyes Goods and in each of the Boats an English Man The First Boat that came off the Dutch sent their Boat from the Admiral 's Ship and seized and carryed her aboard of the Admiral with one of our Men named Thomas Morley in her and several Goods in her ordered by our Companies Factors to be put on board of our Ship. The rest of the Six Boats seeing the First Boat taken returned ashoar and those of them that were not put from shoar remained there and so we could get none off This Action of the Admiral and his Council was committed by them whilest Senior David was aboard with them he being Linguist unto the Honourable English East-India Companies Factors in this place and sent by them with a Letter to inform the Admiral and his Councel That these Boats whereof he had taken one were imployed in the English Service and by the Treaty Marine ought not to be hindred The Goods that were Laden in the Persian Boat for our Ship the Dutch took out and put into our Boat by force she being there waiting upon the Linguist Seniour David who seeing the