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C3:

The 13th of August 1658.

A business of examination of witnesses on the)
part and behalf of Abraham hill, John Gregory)
henry C?rone, and Company owners of the ship the Olive)
Branch of London against the Governour and Company of Dutch Merchants trading)
[GUTTER to] the East Indyes in particular and all others in Generall that will take upon)
[GUTTER to] Justify the staying of the said ship the Olive Branch from proceeding)
[GUTTER XXX] into Bantam in the East Indias there to take in her Lading)
Smith:/:)

Examined upon an allegation
given in on the behalf of
the said Abraham hill and others

Rp. 1

William Stannard of Rederiff in the County of
Surrey Mariner, aged 32 yeares or thereabouts
sworne and examined.

To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth
that hee well knew the ship the Olive Branch arlate the time
arlate, and saith hee also well knoweth Abraham hill, John Gregory,
and henery Crane, and that they and Company were the time arlate
commonly accounted the true and Lawfull owners of the said
vessel and of her tackle apparell and furniture, And further
hee cannot depose

To the second article hee saith that the said ship within the said
time was sett out from this port and imployed in a voyage for
Bantam, in the parts of East India there to take in her lading
and bring the same for Ligorne, on which voyage shee proceeded
from Gravesend on or about the 24th of May 1656, and that
shee arrived in the said parts of East India neere Bantam on
or about the three and twentieth day (old stile) of December then
next following, at which time her master and company were
fully determined to goe and carry her and her lading into Bantam
and take in such goods as were there to be laded aboard her, all
which hee knoweth being one of her company, namely her cheife
mate when shee soe arrived.

To the third article hee saith that the said three and twentieth
(or thereabouts) of December 1656 as the said ship was sailing and
going in for Bantam, two dutch shipps that lay at anchor espying
her, weighed and stood with her, and at length fetcht her up
and shott two guns with bullets, the one a head and the
other asterne her, and saith there were at the same time three
other dutch shipps lying further off but in the way that the
Olive Branch was to passe to goe into Bantam, and saith that
the said five dutch shipps were belonging (as was there commonly
said and reported) to the East India Company of Holland or of
the United Netherlands.

To the fourth article hee saith that after and upon such shooting
and coming up of the said dutch shipps, the Captaine of one
of them came aboard the Olive Branch and demanded of
her master whence hee came and whether hee was bound with
his said ship, to which the said master (John Brampton by name)
made answer that hee came with his said ship and company from
London and was bound into Bantam, to take in his said ships lading
whereupon

Sources

Primary sources

TNA

Exchequer

E 214/646 Parties: Valentine Walton of Staughton Magna co. Hunts, esq. Abram Burrel of Midloe co. Hunts., esq., and John Gregory of London, merchant. Place or Subject: Revocation of indenture of 14 Oct 20 Charles I for the setllement of the manor of Staughton Magna and the advowson of the parish church. Hunts 28 Nov 1649

PROB

PROB 11/343/242 Will of John Gregory, Gentleman of Saint Mary Islington, Middlesex. 03 November 1673
PROB 11/367/463 Will of William Stannard, Captain of Stepney, Middlesex. 22 September 1681
PROB 11/403/281 Will of Abraham Hill, Vintner of London. 14 February 1691
PROB 11/421/326 Will of Abraham Hill of Stepney, Middlesex. 24 July 1694