wrote to the Government of Batavia even after he had surmounted al difficulties that in case they should consent therein and withdraw our Militia from thence he should not be able to continue master in the work but be necessitated to retire to Batavia in hope protection should not there be refused him and thereupon besought in all humility that they would at no hand forsake and reduce him to such extremities but perform their word given him by solemn Contract And how should the Netherlandish Companie be officious to their re-admission seeing the English Company in their writings do so scandalously decipher him as namely that he hath with the approbation of all the world acted against the English Nation as an Enemie so unthanckful so barbarous with such antipathie from their Blood without any the least reason or provocation that his Majesty of Great Brittain without injurie to his honour may not rest till he have secured himself of that City and whole Kingdom until he have got reparation and that the sooner because he is according to their saying however he bear the title of King nothing else but a perfect Slave of Batavia and a Servant to their will and pleasure High words indeed also it is a wonderful Dilemma of the English Companie to wit if the Old King of Bantam have any right to Bantam and the dependencies thereof then the conclusion is most solid that the same is devolved upon the deceased King of Great Brittain of happy Memorie And if the right appertains to the young King as the Hollanders affirm then he hath acted by the approbation of the whole World against the Subjects of his said Maj. as an enemie according to what they have deciphred him Concerning the first member of this Dilemma being it is evident that the Old King of Bantam having given over his Kingdom to his Eldest Son the present inheritor thereof he now cannot afterward give it to another the conclusion that follows hence is directly against the English Company What concerns the second part of the Dilemma if it be the young King to whom this right doth belong and and that it be true that he had acted against the English as an enemy ungrateful barbarous and with antipathie to their blood without the least provocation as indeed may be drawn but nevertheless not to justifie the Demand of the English Company against them of Holland neither can any thing therefrom be concluded against the present King of Bantam in case he hath justly as he affirmeth testifyed his displeasure against the English But in the mean while we cannot let pass without taking notice that while they are pleased to heap up reproches upon the young King then they say he had acted against the Subjects of his Majesty as an enemie ungrateful barbarous with an Antipathie of their Blood without the least provocation further that he is unworthy of alliance with them but when the business is to load the Dutch and make them the Authors of their expulsion out of Bantam then they alter their strain and say that they could not so much as observe neither in the words or gesture of the King the least thing manifesting any displeasure against the English or that he had a design to make them depart out of his Connirie Here they name the present King a Slave of the Netherlandish Companie and in their Reply they say that the Old King when he sate on his Throne would willingly have been a Slave of the King of England and thereof would have made his triumph In their Reply they give the mentioned King the name of a pauvre Idiot a vile person une Chetive Creature c. And in their letter they wrote to him in March 1683. they styl him a wise King to whom they say they will send a person with the Title of Envoy or Extraordinary Ambassador with full power to conclude an everduring League and Alliance with him The same Title the King of Great Brittain giveth him in his fore mentioned Letter stiling him a wise and righteouss Prince On the contraire the English Companie in their Triplick call him a Murtherer and Contemner of the publick faith And how odiously the English Companie in their foresaid Letter annexing also what they wrote to Pangoran Diepa Penerat Chief Minister of State have deciphred the Netherlandish Companie and in what esteem we were alreadie with them even before the Warr of Bantam was kindled the Dutch Companie will referre to the judgment of the Reader It hath already been mentioned that the English Companie in their foresaid Demand did pretend besides the calling back of the Dutch Troopes the deliverie also of the whole Citie and Castle of Bantam or else as they said they would not make their residence there again But besides that the English Commissaries who were to decide the differences did as hath been said Judge that this their demand as altogether ungrounded and unreasonable ought to be denyed so it is a thing that doth sufficiently refute it self For before the Warr of Bantam the English Companie had nothing there but a Lodge and simple Residence without the least Territorial right The King after he had triumphed over his Enemies knowing that they had afforded all manner of assistance to them and not being at rest as fearing their future miscarriage and especially in this juncture of time while he was yet surroundred of Enemies causes them to dislodge Hereupon now the English Companie comes and demands the deliverie of the whole City and Castle having had nothing there but as hath been said a Lodge for Commerce and this they will have from the Netherlandish Companie who have no right at all to dispose thereof except they chase away the King that now is out of Bantam for to put it into the hands of the English and except they could make it out and to be agreable to justice that the Dutch Companie should threaten the present King to abandon and deliver him over to the will and mercie of his Enemies by remouving of their Troopes out of his Citie whereas we are bound by Contract to maintain and protect him should now falter in our word and falselie our trust a thing which may nor ought to be required of us But it is said that the Dutch Companies intent in this is to monopolise all the trade of Pepper and get it to themselves wholie and to this they ad that seeing the Netherlandish Companie having besides the trade of Cloves Nutmegs Mace and cinnamon al this would make them able to maintain a fleet to withstand the mightiest King in Europe But besides that there are so many other great countries in the Indies where Pepper may be had and to which the English Companie have acces as wel as the Dutch and that it is impossible the Netherlandish Company should get them all under their power command it ought to be called to mind that when we were in treatie here with
weaken this assertion he confesseth that what he witnesseth thereof is not of his own knowledge but that he believeth it to be true upon the credit of persons of worth which of it self is enough to reject the same as also it is very observable what on this subject the foresaid Sr. Martin and others with him doe declare to wit that the Contest was not to dispose the King to the ejection of the English but to turn away the wrath and indignation of the King which because of their assistance of his Father and the Rebels he had taken up against them and thereby to deliver them from the loss of all their Goods yea life it self as out of revenge he had determined against them which also was so taken and acknowledged by the English Compagny at Bantam when by their Agent they returned thanks unto the Ministers of the Netherlandish Companie for their protexion But suppose the King had not been so incensed against them as hath been said and that he had not had design at all to be avenged on them yet the mere consideration of his security might have moved him to their ejection as beeing assured they assisted his Rebels and in apprehension that they as wel versed in warkely affaires might from England or Elsewhere reenforce themselves with ships and Soldiers besides the Perillous neighbourhood of their warehouse to his Castle his Father laying round about Bantam with his armie and keeping it yet for som moneths besieged and he as yet by his auxiliarie forces having onely the sea open might if he were not verie circumspect bee again suddenly assaulted or at least the English remayning in Bantam by spying all opportunities make discoveries to the enemies so as in way of providence it was requisite for him to do what he did If the Letters brought in the Processe be reviewed it wil appear whither it be true as is imputed to them that they of their own motion did send succours to the said King yea so as thereby if their most injurious aspersion were true to get him into their Klutches or on the contrarie that is was don at the Great and instant entreaties of the young King after that al wayes of reconciliation had in vain bin attempted But forasmuch as this assistance and succour is thus averslie and after so odious a manner declaimed it will be necessaire to relate the same somewhat more fully and more clearly to discover the occasion and progresse thereof After the Rulers of Batavia had ripely consulted about the constitution of the affaires of the young King they thought meet as also hath before bin specified to proffer their service of Mediation between the Father and the Son to which end they wrote two Letters in civil and obliging termes testifying their purpose and affection in a way of frindship to accommodate and lay by their questions and differences and with that Intention sent thir Plenepotentiaries with Letters the one to the Father and the other to the Son in a Ship prepared to that end after that som dayes before by way of advance they had also sent three other Ships but considering those Plenipotentiaries went unto a place where the parties on both sides were in armes and not being certain whither they might meet with friends or enemies they therfore judged themselves obliged to put them into a posture of defence furnishing them with weapons in case of necessitie to make resistance to sueh as forgetting the right of nations especially in that confused state of things and the respect that ought to be given to publick Persons might possiblie attempt to lay hold on and injurie them and this is that fleet of Ships and Barcks which in these and other of their writings they so much enhance and make a stir about as sent to Bantam to land our Troupes there Our forefayd Plenepotentiaries having wayted some time for an answer from the old King received none and not knowing what properly the intention of these men might as be to them sent a good troop of men to inform themselves more exactly of the State of things but being a little advanced they met some Europeans who by an English Man enquired of them wherefore they came to intermeddle with the differences of the two Kings whereuppon being answered that they came as friends to procure a peace between the Father and the Son they soon perceyved the design they had formed agaynst them for forthwith they saw a great troop of men gathered together making readie some fire Ships and other vessels fitted for warre making a shew as if they would fal foule with us who verilie were to few in number to have thoughts to attempt any thing agaynst so powrful an enemie who seemed to come agaynst them which also they did and came to the deed it self shooting at us and with their Canons which were Managed by the English they much endammaged our Ships whereby they perceived that they not onely did not accept of our Mediation but also that they treated us as enemies upon which they of Baravia soon resolved by force of arms to deliver the young King out of this Miserie and the brinke of death and to this end to send a suffitient power of Ships and Men to this assistance which also had that successe as before is mentioned The assistance which the English gave to the old King whereby the displeasure and wrath of the young King was so kindled agaynst them even to their ejection out of his country is so notoriously known to the world that besides the proofs which the Netherlandish ComPanie have alreadie alledged they yet further could bring hundreds of convincing testimonies but let onely the letters of the young King which he sent from his besieged castle to them of Batavia be produced and you shal hear him complayning in these formal words What reason hath the English Captain to help to shoot at me without once laying to hart that he is resident in my Land and Zea this is yet worse that Mr. Boyer one of the English Marchants at Bantam causes my house to be shot at not once thinking that I desired the King of England that he might be Captaine in the English Lodge Irequest of Capitain Moor Speelman that he wil warn the English not to com on shore to shoot at my house and assist mine enemie also with powder forasmuch as he hath his residence in my Land but not in the Land of Sultan Agon the old King as also to perswade them not to follow mine enemie seeing they drink my water and dwel in my Land and that they close no more with Sultan Agon if Captain Moor have love for me let him be pleased forceably to Insinuate this unto the English that above all things they shoot not at my house nor betake themselves to Land. The which also in a following Letter to the Major St. Martin he further confirmed Beside the said King did afterward make often Complaints
meet that all things should be handled in writing and the State of the case so written to be made by Demand Answer Reply and Duplick or double Reply even to a Triplick and Quadruplick and besides all this there were delivered up such pieces probatory as might serve to fortifie and maintain the case on the one hand with the Confutation of the same on the other hand they of the Netherlandish Company also making their Demand against the Demand of the English and delivering the same over by way of reconvention or contrary Demand for the fraiting of four Ships wherewith the Netherlandish Companie upon the earnest Request of the English Companie had accommodated them amounting to thirteen thousand nine hundred pound Starling In so much that the foresaid Peeces being delivered to the said Committies to do right therein the Englsh Commissaries in their vote declared that it was their opinion and sentence that in stead of all what was demanded by the English East-Indie Companie to wit not only the recalling of the Netherlandish Troops out of Bantam and the Territories thereof but moreover and above to deliver up the Castle and City of Bantam The Netherlandish Companie was only bound to reestablish the said English Company in Bantam so and in such wise as was demanded by Monsieur Chardin in the Hague and to settle all things in state as it was before the Warr and the Damages and Reconvention or contrary Demands should be reserved But the Committies of this State delivering in their Advice every one of them in order did understand and declare that forasmuch as the decision of the case which must be judicially determined did depend upon the veritie of Fact which the English Companie had charged the Netherlandish Companie with and in special that the said English Companie were by them driven out of Bantam of which they could not produce the least proof that therefore the said English Companie ought to have their Demand and Conclusion made and taken up against the Netherlandish Companie denyed them and the said English Companie to be condemned to satisfie the Netherlandish Companie for the Fraighting of the four Ships which they demand by reconvention by which because of the cessation of voices the case being fallen into the terms which they were in according to the convention of agreement of the year 1673 / 4 must come into the hands of an Arbitrator or Compromissarius to the chosing of whom by the foresaid agreement the time of a Month was prescribed but the said Committies for the Decision on both sides not agreeing for although the English Companie were plantif in convention yet the English Commissaries did not propose a Super Arbitrator so hereby the whole case according to an Act passed and subscribed on both sides was left in the hands of his said Majestie and your Highnesses to be determined by you according to the contents of the foresaid Agreemtnt And this is the reason why the said Mr. Skelton Envoy Extraordinary made the foresaid Memorial and Address to vour Pu. Highnesses to doe justice in the case to the Subjects of England Whereupon it must needs fall under Examination whither the complaints which the English Company have and still doe make of the business happened at Bantam be grounded on such solid Reasons as to oblige the Netherlandish Companie so to resettle them at Bantam as they were before the War for more then this was before denyed to be due to them by the English Commissaries themselves and that with reparation of Dammages and Interests which they pretend to have sustained by the Netherlands Company Now to make this case to appear more clearly forasmuch as since it was first presented to your Pu. Highnesses by Mr. Chudly Extraordinary Envoy and afterward more amply pressed by Sr. John Chardin is now wholy altered and quite of another face as also that the Netherlandish Company hath recovred further proofs for the Confutation of what the English Company did bring in and maintain therefore it will be necessary to dive somewhat deeper into the matter The Case is this Sulthan Agon formerly King of Bantam and Father of the present King now reigning having resolutions both in respect of his age and other considerations to disinvest himself of the Government and lead a still and private life he made over his Kingdom to his Eldest Son retiring himself to Turtiassa a place of pleasure about six miles from Bantam and seated a mile from the Sea there to spend the residue of his dayes free from publick affaires His Son seated on the Throne and having the Government of the Kingdom in his hands forthwith sent Ambassadors to Batavia accompanied for the further Splendor with a train of about 300. persons to give notice to the Government there of his access to the Crown and also to reniew their ancient Alliance sending also Ambassadors to England where they were in such manner received as that those of the East-Indie Compagnie by their Letter to the said King of Bantam in July 1682. written about two years after the yong King was come unto the Crown say that such honor was given to his Ambassadors as if they been sent from the greatest King or Potentat of the World adding in the said Letter that they did with joy understand that God Almighty had brought and invested him on the Throne of his Kingdom of Sourosoan that is the Kingdom of Bantam with the good wil of his Father And furthermore his Majesty of Great Brittain sent away the said Ambassadors with presents to the young King their Master accompanied with an honourable Letter to him all which in the Process is produced and in which he is stiled the famous and Illustrious Sulthan Abdul Cahar Aba Nasar King and Lord of the said Kingdom of Sourosoan that is of Bantam adding moreover that his Majesty received the foresaid Ambassadors with all due respect according to their Character and with entire affection as coming from a Prince whose Person and Amitie his Majesty declared to have in very high esteem and unto whom he judged it necessary to send over his Agent or Envoy furnished with power from his Majesty and order from the English Company for to make a strickter League with the King of Bantam which testimony and proffer of Alliance was yet further reiterated in another Letter writ by the foresaid English Company from London the 17. July 1682. also produced in the Process By all which then it appeareth undeniably unto all that are impartial that the present King now ruling was acknowledged both by the King of Great Brittain and by the English Company as well in England as in India for the lawful Lord and King of the whole Kingdom of Bantam and as the Successor of his Father But forasmuch as the present King in the direction of the affaires of the Kingdom did not as it seems answer the expectation of his Father nor satisfy the humor of manie of his Subjects there
arose a heavie Civil War in the Kingdom in which the malcontented entending to cast of the yoke from their neck as they termed it after they had also drawn the Old King to their partie who thereupon strengthened himself in Turtiassa as also the King now reigning did at Bantam at length by force of armes they made themselves Master of Bantham and besieged the yong King in his Castle into which he was retired entending to bereave him both of his Throne and life and to set up a yonger Brother in his place whereupon this King apprehending no other way of deliverance as having most of the great ones of his Kingdom animated against him and the Communaltie also his enemies thought it expedient for him to make known to the General of the Councel of the Netherlandish Companie at Batavia his miserable State and that he not onely was to exspect the los of the Crown but also a most cruel death the which he signifyed in most lamentable wise imploring their assistance but they not judging it convenient in a case of such importance to intrude themselves to unadvisedly did before they determined any thing in the least about it conclude to interpose their Mediation betwixt Father and Son and to that end to send Ambassadors with letters tending to that purpose But the Father in a most disdaingful manner rejecting the same without vouchsafing to return any answer at all to the Government of Batavia or their Committies the said Government did at last resolue seeing the condition of the Son tending to ruin as beeing forsaken almost by all to assist him against the Rebels and if possible to deliver him out of the miserable estate into which he was brought which also they did with such successe that notwithstanding the strong opposition of the Enemie we Landed our forces raysed the siege of the Castle in which the King was and set him again upon his Throne who thereuppon both to demonstrate how gratly he was offended with the English who had assisted his enemies as also to provide for his own securitie for the future did without any instigation of the Netherlandish Companie command them to leave his countrie and to depart elsewhere with their Goods This then beeing a true Narration of what passed in these affaires these considerable things do present themselves to consideration First that the Old King having made over his Kingdom to his eldest Son he therely became lawful King by his Fathers transport and was acknowleged so to be by the King of Great Brittain and by them of the English East-Indie Companie Secondly that he therely being lawful King his subjects in taking up arms agaynst him were Rebels Thirdlie that according to the Law of nature and af nations it is not onely permitted to be assistant unto a King that is oppressed by his subjects but that such assistance is approuvable and a Work of Charity and Love. Fourthly that it is contrary to the Rule of Justice to ascribe the evil Consequences of a lawful and worthie Act unto him that is the Author of the said Act and not of the consequences Fifthly that it is altogether against reason to impute the Chasing of the English out of Bantam unto them of the Government of Batavia and to their auxiliarie Forces because it is manifest that the departure of the English out of Bantam was not a necessary but an accidental Consequence the King not causing them to depart because he was victorious for he had suffered them to live there from the time he came to the Crown until the Warr to wit during the two years of his Reign but only because he was certain they had assisted his Rebels besides many other suspitions he might justly have taken up against them But against this they of the English Company doe alledge and depose for a real truth that they of Batavia had raised and fomented the quarrels between the Old and the Young King of Bantam That two yeares before the Warr began they had had secret Negotiations with Pangeran Diepa Panerat one of the Principal Ministers of the young King to bring about this their design That they afterward having got this King into their snares and most perfidously brought him under their yoke forthwith forced him to drive out the English And to make the Ministers of the Netherlandish Company yet the more suspected and stincking to all the world they undertook in the beginning of the year 1683. to represent unto the King of Great Brittain that the foresaid Major St. Martin who commanded over the forces of the Netherlandish Company at Bantam in Chef had committed very many Enormities against the Factors People and the Effects of the English Company at Bantam so farr that they dispossessed and drave them out of their place of residence But in stead that the English Company ought to have proved the Facts which are essential to the thing in case they herein aimed to triumph they doe not in the whole product which they made in the Process thereof so much as alledge the least appearance either directly or indirectly no not so much as consequentially might serve for the verifying of the Enormities of such Facts And although the Netherlandish Company might stand upon the Negative which is not necessary nay many times possible to be proved save only indirectly for no man can in a direct manner prove that which is not nevertheless to manifest clearly that they of the Government of Batavia are altogether blameless let us onely consider the moral impossibility of the foresaid Fact viz. that the Governors of Batavia should have raised and fomented the questions and differences between the Father and the Son as also the notorious falsehood of the second Fact namely that the said Government should have forced the King to cause the English to depart out of Bantam What concerns the first it s known to the world that for a long time there had been no good intelligence between the Old King and the Government of Batavia no not so much as to the least Correspondence for the latter finding themselves much affronted and injured insomuch that at last they took up Arms against each other the Warr not ending until the Son came to the Crown so that they could not stirr up the Son against the Father muchless foment their quarrel And what follie would it have been for them of Batavia to animate the Father to Warr against the Son forasmuch as they lived with the Son in amitie and as good Neighbors not having any reason in the least to complain of his Government and conduct towards them whereas on the contrary if the Father had got the upperhand they should have been in a farr wors condition and attracted a nieu Enemie against themselves And that they should have stirred up the Son against the Father and encouraged him to Warr cannot be imagined by any that are in their right senses partly because there by they could not
expect any profit or advantage or if they had it would have been mixt with an uncertaintie as to the event and again the Son would then have endeavoured to have been aforehand and the first aggressor whereas on the contrary it was the Father who thereby got so great advantage over the Son burning and ruinating the City and keeping his said Son besieged in his own Castle so that had it not been for the intervention and succours of them of Batavia the Father certainly would have triumphed over the Son and put the case the Warr had ended according to the intention and advantage of the Son what more could he have expected thereby who already sate on the Throne and could be no greater then he was would the Son have listned to such counsel and engaged in a Warr against his Father whose Interest consisted in governing his Kingdom in peace And doth it not hence follow that all these troubles did arise from them who breathed after nothing more then change Who not being able or willing to submit to the Government of the young King revolted against him with intention to thrust him from his Throne and to set up another more suitable to their liking and humor Which their design also so farr succeeded that the young King was brought to the point of loosing his Grown and Life Could the Government of Bantam at the beginning have with any reason imagined that the young King should finally have got the upperhand over his Enemies and Rebells or that the English should have intermedled with that Warr and would have assisted the Rebells against their own Prince whom themselves owned as lawful King of which hereafter shall be more largely spoken and he thereupon should have thrust the English out of his Kingdom Would they have stirred up the Son against the Father after that the Son by so many lamentable Letters had implored their assistance and let it come to that extremity that in case they had delayed but one day longer he must have given himself over to his Rebels and undergon a cruel death In case the Rebels before it was delivered by the Netherlandish forces had taken the Castle and murthered the King could they have hindred that either the old King or one of his younger Sons should have obtained the Crown and so managed the affaires of his Kingdom as to take vengeance of them that had opposed themselves against his designs And if so be in cases of such nature place may be given to conjectures and presumptions is it not most probable that the English themselves have done that very thing which they falsly impute to the Netherlandish Company They Publish for a certain Truth that the young King while the Father as yet governd the Kingdom assassinated their Agent and Commises and that he alwayes carried himself as an Enemy to them whereas on the contrary the Government of the Father was most grateful unto them Doth it then seem to be such an ungrounded praesumption that they partly to revenge themselves of that Massacre of which the King of Great Brittain in his Letter to the now King of Bantam declareth himself so sensible and partly that it was much for their Interest that the Son might be puld down from the Throne and put to death and that the Father or another Brother were set up they should labour to kindle the fire and foment this Warr Especially hereunto concurring that they were so soon readie to join their forces to the assistance of the Father without which the Father could not have obtained those advantages nor the Son been brought to such a Laborinth Also it will clearly appear that all the mischief which is come to the English Companie in this businest is wholy from the bad management of affaires by their own Men and Ministers in Bantam For the King of Great Brittain and the English Companie acknowledge the young King for the alone King and Soverain But their Ministers declare him to be an Usurper and a Rebel of the Father Their Masters endeavour to establish a setled peace with him They set themselves formally against him as their Enemie Their Masters Endeavour to oblige the Son by all means possible and send great quantitie of all manner of Ammunition of Warr to him They do not only disoblige him in all things but even assist his Enemies with the provision sent to his assistance Their Masters in their fore-mentioned Letter pray that God the Creator of Heaven and Earth would bless and prosper him They endeavour to bereave him of his Throne and make him the most miserable of men So that having by these unrighteouss courses brought upon themselves to be driven out of Bantam they now known not how to excuse the matter And being disappointed in their design as fallen into the pit they digged for others they are at their wits End and know not what to doe some bodie must be found out upon whom to lay the blame and the next that comes to hand is the Netherlandish Companie Hic mihi turbat aquas But had they sate still or had as they would make the world believe kept themselves neutral according to the will and footsteps of their Masters or had they in stead of helping the Old assisted the young King these difficulties nor questions had never happened And how can the English with any shew of reason dispute or call in question the Soverainty of the young King seeing it is a known case that the sending and admitting of Ambassadors and Agents together with the making of Treaties and Alliances are true tokens of a Soveraign power and therefore all such as admit and receive Ambassies do thereby acknowledge the Soverainity of them that send the same which is also further owned by proffers of Alliances and Leagues which cannot be erected but between Soveraigns Now as to the second Fact to wit that after the Netherlandish Company had got the young into their snares and perfidiously brought him under their yoke they then should have forced him to the expulsion of the English This we have before manifested to be a false fiction For first they ought not in a case of so great weight and tendency make such odious and malitious positions except they had clear and convincing proofs at hand There is not any one of the Witnesses which the English Companie have produced that mentions a word thereof or that speakes of snares into which they of Batavia caused the young King to fall or of any yoke under which against all fidelity they had brought him It is true they produce in the Process one Mr. Waite speaking of the departure of the English by order of the King who relates onely of an hard contest between the said King and Major Sr. Martin before that order of causing them to depart could be obtained from him but being saith he altogether under the power of the Hollanders he was necessitated thereunto but besides what might be alledged to
an hand in the chasing of the English or had caused the same muchless if it had been true as is malitiously imputed to them that for many yeares since they had plotted for to draw and by that meanes to engrosse the whole Pepper-Trade unto themselves and that as they affirm to the inestimable dammage of the English Compagnie of which shall be further spoken hereafter And seeing then it is a false Fiction that the Dutch Companie should have driven the English out of Bantam although perhaps it might have been which nevertheless was never directly nor indirectly attempted that by suggestion they might have somewhat contributed thereunto yet hereby also their pretended action of dammage and reparation doth fall of it self But that of which also they have made an hideous cry and tintamar by an express complaint in their foresaid Memorial which in May 1683. they presented to your Puiss Highnesses and which they more fully dilated afterward is first that the day after the deliverance of the King one James de Roy Lieutenant of the Companie of Major St. Martin should have taken down the Flag named the Banner of St. George planted upon the House of one Captain John Fisher that the said Fisher thereupon making haste to his House found the said de Roy with a part of the Flag in his hand having torn the rest and given it to his Souldiers to make Scarfs of Again the said Souldiers had drunk out part of the Drinking-wares and taken away the remainder together with his houshold-stuff and withall evilly entreated him and placed some black Moores in his house Thirdly that five dayes after the departure of the English from Bantam our Souldiers came into the House of the English Companie and had sent some Moores of their Servants to fetch of the Pavillion that was displaid on their Lodge Now suppose all this to be a true storie and might thereupon give credit at the deposition of one man only to wit the foresaid Captain Fisher and that also in his own case for further Witnesses are not brought for proof of this Fact yet it is considerable the Actor hierof was in service of the King and not as is very abusively said the Lieutenant of Major Sr. Martin and consequently the Souldiers were Bantamers and it is worthie of observation forasmuch as this Jaques de Roy is so ofsen brought upon the Stage that he is a person who somewhile before the Warr was retired from Batavia to Bantam for to shun his Creditors whom the young King took into his service who had in and during the Warr signalized himself by special services wherefore also he was highly esteemed by the said King though himself were a man of little worth Again although the foresaid first Flag for there is mention made of two might have been the Banner of St. Gerge yet could it not bring any respect to a private House and thereby to be freed from the disorders that in time of Warr are incident more then to any other House what concerns the Banner use made thereof is that a thing to cause so much disturbance that a Captain of the King should with his Souldiers take down from a private House the English Flag after that the King and the whole Nation lookt on him as an Enemie of his Person and of the State What concerns the second part although the relation thereof might perhaps be according to trueth which nevertheless is doubted of and cannot be prooved it doth not touch the Dutch Companie yea though it had been don by their Men but must be imputed to the disorders in War. As to the third point if the recital thereof be according to trueth and that they sent some of their black Servants to take down the Banner which notwithstanding is nothing but a report and recital of some Chineses this doth nothing to the charging of the Netherlandish Companie the said Chineses might be demanded how they came to know those Moores were Servants of the Dutch Souldiers and not of the King as is much more probable seeing it should be an unusual thing at least unheard of among us that simple Souldiers should have Moores to their Servants but posito that the Dutch Souldiers might have been Executors of the Kings Order therein the Kings Right is incontestable and he might take away the Pavillion of the English after that he had banished them out of his Countrie yea though the Souldiers had don it without the Order of the King which is not likely yet had it been nothing else then a Militarie Insolence which also must be ascribed to the disorders of War where the Lawes of Modesty and Deceneie are seldom regarded and therefore without injustice cannot be imputed to them who in the time of the War at Bantam did represent the Government of Batavia who never were behinde hand in that respect which they ow to Crowned Heads but what need is it to have recours to conjectures whereas by a certain produced deposition it is apparent that it was the King himself who commanded the Flag to be taken down from the English Lodge and what is said of the Dutch Flags which after the Victorie were planted upon the Castle and in other parts of the City deserves no Answer since its a known thing that we never pretended any territorial Right in Bantam muchless put the same in execution but however the said Flags served to no other purpose then to make it known to the Dutch Troupes who after the raising of the Siege were posted in the principal places of the City according to the usual practise every where in like occasions The Flag upon the Castle was set up by order of the King to shew honor to the Dutch however placed under the Flag of the King. Besides they of the English Company complain that the day after the raising of the siege the Dutch Resident Kaeff with a Troop of Souldiers and some Masons came into the English Lodge and ordered the English Agent forthwith to take away the Galeries and to naile up the Windowe And that thereupon a Dutch Renegate who was in his Company began presently to threaten him that if the English did not he himself would do it which also as they say he really did This seemeth to be an outragious act don to the English but if we look into the nature of the thing it will be found to be a meer trifel which they ought to be ashamed to urge in this manner The Historie is this Because the Dutch Companie would not be troublesom to any they chose their own Lodge at Bantam for their Magasin of Arms and other provisions Now the Wall of their said Lodge touching part of the English Compagnies dwelling House and in that said Wall they formerly had had no other opening beside a casement Somewhile after the English by permission of the Old King who let slip no opportunitie to affront molest them made great wide