[He is informed that he is to be preferred at Court.] Upon the abovesaid summons there was no Remedy, but to Court I must go.  Where I first applyed my self to my said old Neighbour, Oua Motteral, who was the occasion of sending for me.  I signified to him that I was come in obedience to the Warrant, and I desired to know the reason why I was sent for?  To which he answered, Here is good news for you; you are to appear in the Kings Presence, where you will find great Favour, and Honourable entertainment, far more than any of your Countrey men yet here found.  Which the great man thought would be a strong Inducement to persuade me joyfully to accept of the Kings Employments.  But this was the thing I always most dreaded, and endeavoured to shun, knowing that being taken into Court would be a means to cut of all hopes of Liberty from me, which was the thing I esteemed equal unto life it self.

[But resolves to refuse it.] Seeing my self brought unto this pass, wherein I had no earthly helper, I recommended my cause to God, desiring him in whose hands are the hearts of Kings and Princes to divert the business.  And my cause being just and right I was resolved to persist in a denial.  My case seemed to me to be like that of the four Lepers at the Gate of Samaria.  No avoiding of Death for me:  If out of Ambition and Honour, I should have embraced the Kings Service, besides the depriving my self of all hopes of Liberty, in the end I must be put to death, as happens to all that serve him; and to deny his service could be but Death.  And it seemed to me to be the better Death of the two.  For if I should be put to Death only because I refused his service, I should be pitied as one that dyed innocently; but if I should be executed in his Service, however innocent I was, I should be certainly reckon’d a Rebel and a Traytor, as they all are whom he commands to be cut off.

[The answer he makes to the Great man.] Upon these confederations having thus set my resolutions, as God enabled me, I returned him this answer:  First, That the English Nation to whom I belonged had never done any violence or wrong to their King either in word or deed.  Secondly, That the causes of my coming on their Land was not like to that of other Nations, who were either Enemies taken in War, or such as by reason of poverty or distress, were driven to sue for relief out of the Kings bountiful liberality, or such as fled for the fear of deserved punishment; Whereas, as they all well knew, I came not upon any of these causes, but upon account of Trade, and came ashore to receive the Kings Orders, which by notice we understood were come concerning us, and to render an account to the Dissauva of the Reasons and Occasions of our coming into the Kings Port.  And that by the grief and sorrow I had undergone by being so long detained from my Native Countrey, (but, for which I thanked the Kings Majesty, without want of any thing) I scarcely enjoyed my self.  For my heart was alwayes absent from my body.  Hereunto adding my insufficiency and inability for such honourable Employment, being subject to many Infirmities and Diseases of Body.