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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03477	An answere to the Hollanders declaration, concerning the occurrents of the East-India. The first part. Written by certaine marriners, lately returned from thence into England	Churchman, Bartholomew.	1622 (1622)	STC 13599; ESTC S104145	14,007	33

Behold and see heere is the people of that Nation whose King you care so much for But now you may heereby plainely behold how kindly wee vse his Subiects making them beleeue that Englishmen were their Vassals and Slaues Besides all this they kept many of vs fast bound and fettered in Irons in most loathsome and darke stinking dungeons and gaue vs no sustenance but a little durtie Rice to eate and a little stinking raine-water to drinke So that many of our English fainting in their sights for want of competent sustenance or other lodging at their hands for want whereof many dyed who were fetcht out of the Dungeons and so basely buried more like Dogges then Christians About the fift of May in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred and nineteene wee hauing ouer-passed many hungrie dayes and cold nights Lodging in cold Irons and darke Dungeons and thinking it not possibly able for vs to endure those miseries any longer made meanes that some of vs came to Iohn Peter Socoma their Generall that now is and desired his Lordship which Title hee duly lookes for in the East Indies that hee would consider of our extreame wants and miseries and helpe vs to some better sustenance And further wee desired him that hee would bee so much our friend as to ease vs of our Irons but for the day time Whereupon the sayd Generall most wickedly replyed with base speeches and bade vs bee gone and trouble him no more for if wee did hee would cause vs all to bee hanged speedily So that wee were forced to returne from whence wee came with heauie hearts hauing no hope but in the Almightie to whom wee prayed to turne their hearts and to release vs of our miseries Vpon the thirteenth of May in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred and nineteene the Dutch went a-shore at Iaparre and there they wickedly and maliciously burnt downe the Towne and the English House there and from thence forcibly tooke away the English Flagge and in great disdaine of our Countrey trayled our Flagge after them in the durt through the Towne and towed it aboord their shippe at their boats stearne but what they did with it afterwards we know not Vpon the eighteenth day of the moneth of Nouember and in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and nineteene they tooke one Bartholomew Churchman and clapt him vp in Irons and set him where hee sate in the raine and coldc stormes of the night and in the day time where the hot Sunne shone vpon him and scorched him without any shelter at all and this they did to him only because he strucke a base fellow that spake such words against our late Queene Annes Maiestie as are not fit to be repeated which words as also diuers other which they spake against our dread Soueraigne wee dare not relate as being too odious to be vsed in a subiects mouth touching his Prince Howbeit might licence and freedome of speech be granted vs to make knowne the base flaunderous and detracting speeches of that Nation against our King and Countrey that we might not incurre any danger of his Maiesties displeasure by the repeating them it would sufficiently make knowne the pride and crueltic of that people who did not then let to say that they made no account of our King nor any of his subiects The seauenteenth day of the moneth of March and in the yeere of our Lord God euerlasting one thousand sixe hundred and nineteenth their Gouernor of the Moloccas gaue order for the release of the English there and appoynted thirtie of them to be carried to Aombonias from thence to be sent into England or Holland But the gouernor of Aombonias perceiuing them to be arriued hee vtterly refused to discharge them and forced them to serue in their 3. ships that went to the Manelees as men of waire which if any refused to doe they were to rowe in their Gallies chained like vnto slaues in which voyage to the Manelees foureteene of our men went in the Saint Michael which were lost and neuer since heard on whose names doe follow George Trigges Iohn Edwards Iames Welch Iohn Crocket William Nichols Robert Gilbert Matthew Gilbert Giles Lipscombe Arthur ●ap Edward Parker William Vese Iohn King Iohn Ouer and William Smith Chirurgeon Wee affirme that they hauing Arrian Ellis Edward Reade and William Ponell 3. Englishmen prisosoners in their ship called the Bantam they chained them in Irons and layed them in the Beake-head straitly prohibiting all others to come neare them to giue them any other foode then their allowance which was so small that meere hunger compelled those three prisoners to throw the dice who should cut each others throat and so they did throw the dice to that end but were disclosed before anie of them were slaine so that they were thereupon sundred and sent into other ships They haue taken our men and without any cause haue stripped and whipped them openly in the market place they haue also beaten vp their Drumme and called the Blackes together to see it done They will not suffer vs to weare or spread in our English houses in those parts where they haue any command any colours that are our Kings colours The Coppie of a Letter sent vnto the Dutch in the East Indies from their English Captiues at the Iland of Monoboca the nineteenth day of March one thousand sixe hundred and eighteene and deliuered vnto Captayne William Iohnson Commaunder of the Angell COnsideration in things of difficultie is requisite and therefore much requisite in these our vnchristian-like miseries But because this hath beene but sleightly respected we are now resolued to tell you of all your perfidiousnesse First Grippe got aduantage to surprize our shippes and made a vowe not to touch life nor goods in any sort But since the contrary hath beene so much proued that Grippe and his confederates are now seene to be forsworne as shortly after their actions did shew in taking away euen those things which with their consent wee did saue and bring aboord your shippe called the Trowe At that time we being indungeoned at Pollaway besides all the Pagan-like vsage of that cruell man Laurence Ryall we were by Vanhoose kept in such extreame miserie with stinking water and Rice halfe full of stones and durt scarce able to keepe life and soule together that had not Derrickson Van lame graunted the English at Pollo-Roone free accesse to Pollaway to bring vs reliefe wee had beene all ere this time starued for want But we passed away that time in expectation of better fortunes which you haue all from time to time promised yet now againe our miseries are thrice redoubled for since wee came to this place you haue not onely vsed vs most basely in other things but also haue taken away from vs euen that poore sustenance which wee bought with our owne monies and this hath bene done by that enuious