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Transcription

deponent hath lived and resided in the East India's and South
seas in the service and employment of the East India Company
of England, and thereby well knoweth that the Governour and
Company of English Merchants trading to East India, have used
to send their shipps servants and officers to Bantam (where
hee saith they have a factory and soe have had for all the said time [?att]
Maccassar, Surat, and Jambee (at all which places hee hath
bin and thereby knoweth that the said company hath factories
in them all) and other places in those parts and climates
and trade and traffique in those places by their factors and
servants, and to have goods and merchandizes of those places
retourned to England (saving the interruption from the dutch
hereafter mentioned) and this hee conceiveth they might lawfully
doe and exercise, as alwaies they have donne saving the
interruption of the dutch, and hereof hee saith there was and
is a publique [?XXX] and fame. And further doth not depose.

To the second article hee saith and deposeth that in the
yeeres 1655 and 1656 arlate and monethes therein the said
Governour and Company of English Merchants or some of them sent to East
India aforesaid diverse of their shipps which arived thither in
safetie, and had there trading upon their merchandizing
affaires and imployment theise shipps followeing of his sight and
knowledge, namely the Endimion, the Marygold, the Golden
Cock, the Olive branch, the Jonathan, and the Beniamin,
none of which shipps , officers or companies nor any of then, offerd
any the least injurie or affront (as hee beleeveth) to any dutch
shipps that were in those parts or to any the commannders or
company thereof, And hee heard that the Assada Merchant
and other shipps were alsoe in those parts in that time
namely in 1655 and 1656. And further hee doth not depose.

To the third and fourth hee cannot depose, saving what
followeth, for hee was not then neere Bantam, nor saw the
first arivall there of the Endymion.

To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that in or about
december last past (1656) the shipp the Endimion arlate
having bin at Jambee, was comming for Bantam in the said
Companies imployment, and being come within foure leagues
or thereabouts of Bantam, the ducth fleete (of which the
Heer lilly was then Generall) lying a=or riding there,
namely about foure leagues from Bantam, espying her,
some of their shipps went out and fetcht her in, and
commannded and caused her to come to an anchor
amongest their fleete, neere their said Generall, and
prohibited her from going into the Roade of Bantam, which
hee