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Transcription

to have bin Transported in the said ship to Leghorne, for the
account of the said Sir John Dethick Knight, and the rest of the
owners aforesaid who are as aforesaid all native subjects of this
Commonwealth And further hee Cannot depose./.

To the 5th 6th and 7th hee saith that whilest the Company of the said ship
was taking in some of the said Pepper, which was as aforesaid
Provided by the said Mr Newman and Mr Griffiths, and
Whilest they were providing other pepper to lade the said ship
the arlate ship the Turtle Dove, whereof one Captaine Antonis
Van Voorst was Comander, and three other small ships
or Vessells in her Company, came and anchored round
about the Bantam ffrigot, and presently after their coming
soe to anchor, there came three Dutch men from the said ship
the Turtle Dove (which was the Admirall) on board the Bantam
who upon their Coming, told the said Taylor that
hee must come on board their Comadore meaning the
Turtle Dove, whereupon the said Taylor said that hee could not
leave his ship. for that hee was ordered by his Imployers
to keepe in Possession of his said ship, and looke to her,
And they (hee saith) the said three Dutchmen ordered
the said Taylor to send for the Merchant of his ship (who was the[?n GUTTER]
on shore) to come on board the Bantam, which the said Taylor
accordingly did, and the said Newman being come on
board the bantam, The said Dutchmen or one of them
told the said Mr Newman, and Mr Taylor in the presence
of this deponent and his precontests Caleb kime and, Lewes
Waters, and severall others of the Bantams Company
That the foure ships meaneing the Turtle Dove, and
the other three small ships) were imployed by the Dutch
East India Company to hinder all English
from Tradeing in those parts, and said that they were sent
aboard the Bantam by their Comadore, (meaneing
Comadore or Admirall Van Voorst to forbid them, and
prohibite them from trading there, for if they did hee
would seize the Bantam and her Lading, and make them
Prize or to that effect, and Comanded the said Newman
on board the Admirall, who accordingly went, but what discourse
passed betweene the said Mr Newman, and the said Comadore
on board the said Dutch Admirall hee knoweth not, But saith
that when the said Newman came againe on board the Bantam
hee told the said Taylor openly in the hearing of this Deponent
and many others of the Bantams Company, That they
must not trade there any Longer, for if they did the said
Van Voorst would by Vertue of orders or Comission from the
(Dutch