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The 19 of August 1658.

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

5

Captaine Arnold Browne of the parish
of Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner
aged 33 yeares or thereabouts sworne and
examined.

To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that
hee hath made two voyages to the East India's as a Mariner, and
the last thereof was in the yeares 1655 1655, 1656 and 1657, at which
time hee went Commander of the shipp the Beniamin in the
service of severall members of the English East India company,
and saith hee hath bin at Bantam and well knoweth that the said Company
had and have a factory there setled and at other parts and places in the East
INdias whereunto they have used to send their shipps and goods, and there to
maintaine and imploy servants and officers about their commerce, about receiving
their goods from England and making retournes thereof, and that the said company
or some of them had there severall shipps in their service and imployment in the
said yeares 1655m 1656, and 1657 of this deponents sight and knowledge, namely
the Marigold, the Eagle, the Three Brothers and others and the said
shipp