A true relation of the vniust, cruell, and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Neatherlandish gouernour and councel there Also the copie of a pamphlet, set forth first in Dutch and then in English, by some Neatherlander; falsly entituled, A true declaration of the newes that came out of the East-Indies, with the pinace called the Hare, which arriued at Texel in Iune, 1624. Together with an answer to the same pamphlet. By the English East-India companie. Published by authoritie.

Abstract

Sometimes attributed to Dudley Digges, but the first and possibly the third parts were written by Sir John Skinner (STC). The second part, of which no separate published version is known to survive, was translated by John Wing (STC). Title page in red and black. Leaf A2 is a cancel; A2v line 3 has "onely offering to the Manes". Variant: A2 is the cancellandum, with A2v line 3 "only sacrificing to the Manes". Leaf E3 is cancelled by a bifolium in all known copies. The first leaf has a list of the Portuguese and Japanese men executed; the second leaf has an illustration of six men and is occasionally bound as a frontispiece. "A true declaration of the news that came out of the East-Indies, with the pinace called the Hare, which arriued in Texel, in Iune, 1624" and "The ansvver vnto the Dutch pamphlet, made in defence of the vniust and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Hollanders there" each has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous. The first leaf is blank. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.