HCA 13/72 f.489r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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| Folio | 489 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2015/12/02 | |
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hee knoweth because hee was then there in the Marygold aforesaid
which ws alsoe then uner the same restraint of the dutch
fleete. An dotherwise hee cannot depose, saving the Endimions
boate was afterwards suffred to goe for Bantam,
to give notice to the English agent of the said ships being there.
Toi the sixth article hee saith that the said English Agent (Mr
ffrederick Skinner) having received the said
notice, came and went aboard the said ducth Generall
accompanied with this deponent and other English factors, and
in this deponents presence and hearing intreated the said dutch
Generall to permitt the said shipp the Endimion to goe into
Bantam Roade to receive in such goods as were there in a
readinesse for her for the said companies account, to which the said
Generall made answer that hee durst not suffer her to goe
into Bantam roade, without expressse order to that and first
obtained from Battavia, and thereupon the said Agent retourned
to Bantam whether this deponent went with him, and there hee
and the Counsell wrote and sent letters to Battavia directed
the dutch Governour Generall and Counsell there, desiring them
to give order that the said shipp the Endimion might be suffered
to come into Bantam roade, to which their request they
received answer, that they the said Generall and Counsell
would not permitt any shipp or ships whatsoever to goe in or
out to or from Bantam, or betwixt the shipps and shore in
any manner whatsoever, Both which letters this deponent saw.
And further hee doth not depose.
To the seaventh article hee saith that soone after the receipt of the
said answer from Battavia, teh said Agent went from Bantam
aboard the said shipp Endimion to goe in her for Battavia, not
doubting (as hee declared) but that his presence there might prevaile
for the foing in of the said shipp to Bantam roade, and soe setting
saile arived at Battavia, and went there ashore to the said Gouvernour
generall, and made applications and addresses to him to the effect aforesaid,
but still receiving deniall, hee the said Agent after interposing a
Protest afainst the said unjust and wrongfull dealing by the dutch to
the English, retourned without obtaining his said desire; and soe
hee saith the said shipp was forced to retourne for England with
considerable quantitie of dead freight, to the greate dishonour of
the English Nation, the greate disappointment of the Voyage and
the said companies great dammage, being forced to have their
goods left behinde, which may lie there and perish, all which
hee knoweth because hee both came with the said agent from
Bantam and went with him to Battavia in the Endymion, and
was present at his applications and addresses to the Governour
and privie to all the befor ementioned passages. And otherwise he
cannot depose.
To the eighth hee cannot depose for hee was not then there
To
