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they had stayed aboard the ''Postillian'' … they had stayed aboard the ''Postillian'' soe longe as they thought fitt<br />
departed to their owne shipp the ''Sea hounde'', and the ''Postillion'' stood<br />
for Bantam where shee shortly after arrived (being but a few leagues<br />
distant thence) but saith that in her passage thither severall dutch<br />
shipps (to the number of about five) fired severall gunnes with<br />
shott at the ''Postillian'' some whereof came neere her, and soe<br />
followed the ''Postillian'' some whereof came neere her, and soe<br />
followed the ''Postillian'' into the Roade of Bantam soe neere as<br />
they durst goe for feare of coming within Command of<br />
Bantam ffort this hee deposeth of certayne knowledge being Chi=<br />
rurgion and aboard the ''Postillian'' and seeing the same./
To the 5th Interrogatorie hee saith that after the ''Postillian''<br />
arrived at Bantam her putward Cargo was there sold and<br />
disposed of to the English Agent at Bantam Mr ffrederick<br />
Skinner and delivered to him into the English howse there, this<br />
deponent seeing the delivery of divers of them, and seeing them <br />
all on shoare in the English house, which being done, the sayd<br />
shipp there receaved her homewards Cargo consisting of<br />
pepper and other Commodities, wherewith as alsoe with a great<br />
quantitie of peeces of eight which shee brought from England<br />
and had not disposed of at Bantam, shee departed thence<br />
peaceably, thios hee the better knoweth for that hee sawe<br />
the sayd peeces of eight aboard her before shee came to<br />
Bantam and after her coming thence and sawe the takeing in of<br />
her sayd homewards ladeing the greatest part whereof was<br />
laden for Accompt of the sayd delboe Middleton Temms Britton Tayler and Syon<br />
and other part thereof was for Accompt of the sayd Kingsman<br />
the Master, and his shipps company whereof this deponent was<br />
one, and saith that there were divers Jarrs of greene Ginger laden<br />
aboard her , but the number of them or for whose Accompt<br />
laden hee knoweth not And further hee cannot depose./
To the 6th Interrogatorie hee saith that soone after the shipp ''Postillian''<br />
with her sayd homewards ladeing came out of the Roade of<br />
Bantam videlicet about eight or tenn howers after certaine shipps<br />
to the number of fower belonging to the dutch East India Company have chase unto her<br />
and shortly after an other dutch shipp of warr belonging alsoe<br />
to the sayd dutch East India Company in a hostile manner<br />
assaulted the ''Postillian'' and discharged severall great shott<br />
at her and therewith hee and spoiled hee rigging and sayles<br />
and tooke away a peece of her mayne yards in which tyme the<br />
other shipps who were in chase of her came up and seized<br />
her and her ladeing, and dispossed her Master and Company of<br />
her, and put a dutch master and dutch mariners into her, and<br />
carried her and her ladeing into Batavia and there imprizoned the<br />
sayd and there imprizoned the<br />
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