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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33200	The Civil wars of Bantam, or, An Impartial relation of all the battels, sieges, and other remarkable transactions, revolutions and accidents that happened in the late civil wars between that king and his eldest son, commonly called by them, the young king : giving a particular account of the circumstances and manner of the siege and taking of the city of Bantam, and the English factory there, by the young king, with the help and assistance of the Dutch / in several letters from a gentleman residing for the East-India-Company at Bantam, to a merchant in London.		1682 (1682)	Wing C4366A; ESTC R43100	10,521	20

Chief from the Fort with a File of Souldiers and several Carpenters came to their Factory into the Yard whereof we had two Galleries and several Windows acquainting us in the most imperious manner he could express himself That it was the King's Order to cut down the one and stop up the other which if we did not immediately do his People should An Action of nothing but Insultation and Spite design'd to increase our Fears and Amazement their Factory being at that time uninhabited and indeed almost ruined yet we were forced to comply The said Chief having lived many years in Bantam and been our intimate Companion induced us to believe his Morosity might be the effect of his Superiors Orders and that from him we might possibly understand the Reality of the reported Massacre the night before and whether still design'd therefore was my self sent down to him who told me it was really intended and a going to have been put in execution by the young King but by their Major he was hindred and diswaded therefrom which though we believe a Truth yet next to the Divine Mercy we can impute it only to the by them feared ill Consequences who by reason of the small number of the King's People could not have acquitted themselves of being accessary thereto if not by their Assistance at least by their Permission inasmuch as it was they that incens'd him against us by their aggravating all our Actions what possibly they could to our Disadvantage Upon this we resolved and accordingly went to the King to congratulate his safe Delivery out of his late Troubles that if he had any thing to say to us we might clear our selves Before whom when come we found no such angry Aspect upon his brow as by what was reported to us we had reason to expect he reproached us with our assisting his Father contrary to our Engagement of standing Neuter and what most aggravated was that three of our Company came the day before the Landing of the Dutch to the Camp close under his Wall to instruct his Fathers Souldiers how to plant their Great Guns against him I was my felf one in person with Mr. George Chowne then of Council and Mr. Rich. Burnby formerly Chief of Siam who went as we acquainted him only out of curiosity to see the place upon an Invitation of the Captain that lay there and as a proof of our Innocency and unthought of giving occasion of Displeasure or Distrust of his Majesty we came within Call of his Soldiers on the Wall without any other defence save our confidence that we not medling or making on either side they would not hurt us but it shall be a warning to me for ever exposing my self to so great a danger upon any such like Considerations so long as I live and that what Supplies we otherwise afforded his Father we were necessitated to as being wholly under his Power and himself then inclosed in his Fort and unable to protect us He interpreted all as excuses acquainting us that tho' it was in his power to cut us off yet out of that respect he had to our King and Company would desist therefrom a Lesson learnt him by the Dutch Being dismist we were the 31st constantly affrighted with his Men in Arms coming to our Factory under the conduct of one or other of his three great Ministers of State he had left him or a Dutch Renegado by him highly advanced whom we knew not how to trust neither durst deny Admittance when in the evening the Chief of the said Ministers he that has been above two years underhand with the Dutch contriving to bring the Design about of getting Bantam came to us with a Paper written in the Mallay Language said to be sent us from the King being an Order to us with all possible speed to get our Goods aboard our Ships and depart his Countrey he pressing us to the most speedy compliance possible therewith as we stood in awe of the Kings Displeasure We were since informed that there was a great Dispute between the King and the Dutch Major before he could be brought to Order us out of his Countrey well considering how great a Support to and Inrichment of his Kingdom our Trade had been But being wholly under the Dutch Power he was forced to comply and we to his Commands and so purposed with all possible speed to get off our Goods and depart for Batavia But our Ships being most of them nigh full we were necessitated to request a Ship of near five hundred Tuns of the Dutch Major to export them so the next Morning we wrote a Letter to him which we sent by four of the Companies Servants to deliver who coming to the Fort the Captain of the Guard told them he was asleep Whereupon they left it with him and returned home But whilst we were expecting of an Answer the same evening comes to us the abovesaid Minister and Votary to the Dutch with the said Letter unopened seating himself at the upper end of our Table and filling our Great Hall with his followers calling for Mr. Barwell and some others of the Council who coming before him he takes forth the Letter and tells us with Rage the King had sent him to know the meaning of that Papers being found on the Ground under the Fort-Walls aggravating it as a Cause of the highest Suspition now in time of War and when we had told him what it was and laboured to make him sensible that it was our Europe Custom to signifie our Minds in Writing and that our Meaning therein was most innocent he replied he admired how we durst presume to write to the Major without first acquainting the King and all this with so much Passion and Fury that nothing could look more like a Prologue to a Massacre till at length he mildly advised us the next morning to go and ask the King's Pardon Many other Circumstances of Amazement in this Business did pass too tedious to represent But by what we have said you may imagine the baseness of the Dutch who were the whole Contrivers and Authors of this Business as did plainly appear by that Letter being delivered into their hands and the King 's not mentioning one word to us about it the next Morning notwithstanding we never offered to ask him Pardon But this is but little to their succeeding Treatments as you will see by what follows That day we had sent off two of our Ships Boats full of Broad-cloath which without the Rivers Mouth were followed by a Dutch Pinnace ordering them back again or else they would fire at them Their Return surprized us but not knowing but its being late at night might be the occasion we sent them again the next morning when they were again stopped by the Dutch Souldiers quartering a little below our Factory who told us they had Orders to suffer no loaden Boat of ours to go out of the River we complained to the