THE ENGLISH AND Dutch Affairs Displayed to the Life: Both in matters of War, State, and Merchandise; How far the English Engaged in their Defence, against the most Potent Monarchy of Spain; and how ill the Dutch have since requited the English, for their Extraordinary Favours; not only in the Time of Queen Elizabeth their Protector and Defendress; but also in the Time of King James, by their Bloody Massacree of them at Amboyna: Their Ingratitude to King Charles the First of Glorious Memory: And the True State of Affairs, as they now stand in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign, King Charles the Second.  
By a true Lover and Asserter of his Country's Honour.  
London, Printed by Thomas Mabb, for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1664.   

TO THE READER.  
EPistles like Prologues of Plays, being for the most part passed over without Reading; I shall not therefore Enlarge myself, only to give you an Account, that I have in this work used my best Endeavours to be punctually True in these Collections; The Work itself would have afforded matter sufficient for a Large Volume: So many of our Noble Hero's having been Engaged in their Service, and many of them lost their dearest Lives, in that Nation's Defence, dying there in the Bed of Honour. Yet am I confident no matter very material is here omitted, and therefore free from those many Impertinencies with which Large Volumes must needs be stuffed. This may serve to give sufficient Instructions to the Intelligible Reader; like a little Watch showing the time of the day, as well as a great Dial; and therefore more useful, because less cumber some. Here hast thou truly presented (and not in a Multiplying Glass) the great kindnesses the DUTCH have from time to time received of the ENGLISH; And on the other side, how unthankful the DUTCH have been for them. What my performances have been herein, I shall neither Extenuate nor Extol, leaving every Reader, to judge as he best pleaseth; But this let me tell thee, if thou be'st a True ENGLISHMAN, thou canst not but in reading it, very much rescent the Injuries and Affronts which the ENGLISH have continually received from that Nation. I shall not add hereunto by way of Aggravation, nor reflect upon the Visitation of the Almighty so hevy now upon them; no less than odd of 1000 dying of the Pestilence at AMSTERDAM in one Week: A True ENGLISH Nature, as he hates Ingratitude, so doth he scorn to insult over Men in misery. My Prayers therefore shall be, that the Almighty would be pleased to remove his heavy hand of Visitation from them, and that they would call to mind the great benefits they have received from the ENGLISH, and that Ingratitude is the worst of Vices.  
A True Lover of his Country's Honour, W. W.