A SECOND COURANTE OF NEWS FROM THE East India in two Letters. THE ONE WRITTEN BY Master Patrick Copland then Preacher to the English in the East India, to Master Adrian jacobson Hulsebus' Preacher to the Dutch. THE OTHER WRITTEN BY Master Thomas Knowles Factor there, etc. By both which letters you may understand of some other occurrents betwixt the English and Dutch in those parts.  
Printed the 18. of February, 1622. Stilo Novo.   

REVERENDO IN CHRISTO FRAtri D. Domino Adrian jacobson Hulsebus apud Iackatra nenses Batavos Praedicatori, Salutem & pacem ab authore utriusque. Loving brother:  
I have received your letters, and according to your desire, have returned these few lines in answer thereunto. If I have not so fully satisfied the particulars of your letters, as I wished and purposed, I pray you impute it not to any want of will, but unto my disaquaintance with your Dutch tongue and hand: I should peradventure have given you better satisfaction than now I do, If you had written to me in the Latin tongue. But to leave excuses and come to the matter, the thing you touch in your Letter is but too too true, to wit, that the hatred and dissension among Christians (if it continue, as God defend it should) is, and will be the cause of much innocent bloodshedding amongst friends, and of estranging the hearts of Heathens, from the worship of the true God. And therefore that enmity amongst friends may cease, and that such as are as yet without, may be alured to submit themselves to the sceptre of jesus Christ: it standeth us upon (who are Preachers of the Gospel of peace) to be instruments of peace, which for my own part how willing I am to do, is not unknown to such as know myself, and among whom I do daily converse. I have always both in public and private, by Letters to our Worshipful company in England, and by lively voice to our Commanders here in the Indies, declared how good a thing it is for us that are Christians, professing one Faith, one Christ, one Baptism, to live in peace, and to dwell together in unity. And of this my earnest desire to be a peacemaker, Master Brancraft your Master of the Black-Lyon, who remained after his taking some weeks aboard of the Royal james, can give evident testimony & witness. And now that you have written to this end, I will stir up myself, and set a fresh upon the work of reconciliation. It is pelf indeed and pride, that is the makebate breeding strife and discord: for, had not the riches of the Moloccoes and the robbing of the Chinese and others by you, under the English colours, fathering thereby your theft upon us, cast you into a deep and deadly Lethargy, you would not as you have done, have abused your best friends abroad, that have shed so much of their dearest blood in defence of you and your country at home; but now you are freed from the Spaniard at home, you fall out with your friends abroad. Is this the recompense of our love and blood showed unto you, and shed for you, to keep you from the supposed thraldom of Spain? Did David thus reward his three Worthies, who adventured their lives to satisfy his longing, & to quench his thirst? Did he not say, Lord be it far from me that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? 2 Sam. 23. 17. Do you thus requite us, as Lot did Abraham, Who when as he with the 318. that were borne and brought up in his house, did recover Lot and his goods and women out of the hands of the Conquerors, cared not for him but to serve his own turn, and being delivered did in a manner scorn Abraham's company. Well, though Abraham being the elder and worthier might have stood upon his right, yet yielded of his interest, that he and Lot might live as brothers, and the rather because both of them at this time sojourned among the Canaanites and Pheresites, who were ready to take notice of their discord, and so to curse their God, and holy religion. Yet what gained Lot by separating company, but a shower of fire and brimstone, which reigned upon Sodom wherein he lived, and would have consumed both him and his, if God had not been merciful unto him at Abraham's request?  
It is not long of the English that we expose ourselves to the mockery of Infidels: our Company love peace, and trade peaceably: they have put up for peace sake more wrongs at your hands, than they mean to do again. You write and publish to the world that the Sea is free, and yet by your encroaching upon it, are not you both the Mothers and Nurses of discord? One of our Commanders, wrote (as I think, or at least sent word by one of special note amongst yourselves) to Coen your Commander concerning a parley before the shooting down of our Turret at jackatra: but the first and last news we heard of him, was it not the beating down of our house there, and the defaming of our Nation, with Penoran at Bantam and others here?  
And think you that this is the way to make peace?  
The present Captain of your Fort at jackatra promised to the Right Worshipful Sir Thomas Dale our chief Commander, upon the faith of a Christian, that M. Peter Wadden (now your prisoner) should have free ingress and egress in and out of your house to parley between us, to return to our Ships: and yet is either promise or oath kept? hath he not, and doth he not continue your prisoner to this hour? You remember jehu his answer to jehoram, What peace whiles the whoredoms of thy Mother jezabel, and her witchcrafts are yet in great number? 2 King. 9 23. No sound league of friendship or reconciliation can be made, or being made can continue, till the wrongs which men have done one to another, be reproved, and removed; and satisfaction given by word and deed, where it may possibly be performed; else it will be like a wound or sore, that being cured outwardly to the eye, doth bleed and fester inwardly; many hollow reconciliations are daily made amongst men, which afterwards break out to the hurt of both parties, and scandal of others: As a wound that is ill cured, by an unskilful or an unconscionable Chirurgeon. As for mine own part, I would to God that if it were possible, I might with all my best skill and cunning be the Chirurgeon to cure this wound, that our reconciliation, when ever it shall be made, may not be hollow, but holy and firm: yea I wish from my heart, that my very blood might be the milk to put out this wild fire which now is kindled, and (if it be not quenched in time) is like to devour, not only the ships and goods (as it hath done some all ready, and is like to do precious lives, of many of both nations and of (it is like) will but see the time that ever the English and Dutch knew the Indies. All 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one side, there must be a yielding of both 〈◊〉, if ever there be a sound peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who shall begin ●●●●●eer, what avalleth anger without strength to bear it out? What is fierceness of spirit without wisdom of heart? but even as fool's bo●● against himself. And to such a one may not the saying of Archidamus to his son, being too foolhardy, be as fitly applied as a glove to a man's hand 〈◊〉 son put to more strength, or take away some of this courage? You cannot be ignorant that when Herod intended to make war against the Tyrians and Sidonians, how they came all with one accord, & persuaded Blastus the King's Chamberlain that they might live in peace, or else they should all of them be starved, Act. 12. 20. Take heed you come not to this when it is too late. Are you so well able to live of yourselves in Holland, that you have no need of your neighbour country England? Are you so high above the waters, that the sluices of heaven cannot drown you? Or are the Seas so low beneath your Netherlands, that you fear no deluge? Shebna the Treasurer, was he not as surely seated as your Grave is in Holland? or the greatest amongst you here in the Indies, even Coen himself? and yet was he not tossed up and down as a football in a strange country? and were not the Chariots of his glory the shame of his Lord's house? Esay 22. 18. But I have run myself a little beyond that I intended, and now to recover my breath, by these lines I promise, and by word and deed will, God willing, with sail and care labour to bring to pass, that we may live as friends and neighbours both here and at home. Thus I have returned you an answer to that you desire, and look that both of us should do our best endeavour for the good of our present Fleets, and of such as hereafter may live to bless us. From our Royal james riding near to Bantam Road, this 20. of April 1619.  
Your loving brother Patrick Copland.   

From aboard the Bee in the Road of jacquatry on the Coast of java, the 25 of Febr. 1620.  
AVgust the second 1619. our ship and goods were taken by the Flemings in the Straight of Sinday near Bantam, and set a shore at jaquatry. September the 8. 1619, the Flemings dispersed us into their ships, and on the coast of Sumatra the first of October 1619. they took four other English ships, viz. the Dragon, the Bear, the Expedition, and the Rose. And on the second of October they turned us all a shore at Tekoo amongst the Indians, where our Merchants had no trade, but for eight days. We were then 370. and odd men, all or the most part undone. About 15. men were killed in fight. They left us the little Rose to shift for ourselves.  
October the 23. 1619. there came into the Road out of England three other ships, the Paltegrave, the Elizabeth, and the Merchant's Hope. From Tekoo we sailed to and fro, and at length came to anchor at an Island called Amyncan, where we had fresh water and some fish, but is no place of trade, nor is there any man that knoweth of any thing that grows upon it. The people are thought to be man-eaters. After this we returned back for Tekoo, and near the same january 29. 1619. we met with General Prynne in the Royal james, and his whole fleet of ships in number nine. All the fleet being then twelve goodly ships, were resolved to sail for Bantam: and in sight of two Flemish ships (which we purposed to take) Captain adam's in the ship called the Bull, together with one of the Flemish ships came up with news of peace. We than sailed for jaquatry, where by the way met us 17. sail of goodly Flemish ships, with whom (had not the peace then come) we must have fought it out. But peace being then concluded between the Flemings and us, our English factory was again settled at jaquatry; and the ships divided some for one place, some for another.  
April 26. 1620. the Royal james, and a ship of some 800. Tons, called the Unicorn, set sail for japan, the distance near about 1400. leagues. june the second 1620. the Unicorn was cast away on the coast of China, near a certain Island called the Macoio Island. In the ship were two English women; both which, and all the men were saved: for they ran the ship near the shore. Most part of all their goods they lost. As we sailed for japan, at a place called Puttany, we heard of Captain jordan, who being there with two ships, called the Hound, and the Samson, there came into the Road and fought with them three Flemish ships: Captain jordan was slain in that fight, and the Flemings took both their ships. December 17. 1620. the great james being well trimmed at a place called Farando in japan, came away from thence: and january the 14. 1620. we arrived safely at jaquatry, where she is now loaden for England.  
The ships that since my coming from England, have been taken and lost, are the Sun, cast away near Bantam; the Star, taken near Bantam; the Dragon, the Bear, the Expedition, and the Rose, taken at Tekoo; the Hound and the Samson taken at Puttany; the Unicorn cast away on the coast of China; two or three other ships taken and lost at the Mollucas.  
Men of good command, dead, are, Captain Parker of Plymmouth, Sir Thomas Dale, Captain jordayne killed at Puttany, Captain Bunnier killed at Tekoo while we were at japan. The Flemings yielded up again the Star to the English, and she is gone to the Mollucas.  
Thomas Knowles.