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Transcription

To the 9th hee saith that hee being Masters Mate as aforesaid
and keeping a Journall of the whole voyage in question thereby knoweth
that the Olive Branch did not arrive at the Port of Ligorne
till the seaventeenth day of January 1657 And saith that if shee
had bin permitted to have gone into the Port of Bantam to have
taken in her ladeing at her first arrival there shee might have
there taken in the same in about fourteen or sixteen dayes
tyme shee being but a smale ship and her ladeing (as the foresaid
Skinner affirmed) being all in a readinesse, And then in all proba
bility, shee might have arrived therewith at Ligorne sixe or seaven
monethes sooner than shee did soe that the sayd ship was by
the fault and occasion of the Holland East India ffleete
kept longer upon the sayd voyage by six or seaven monethes than
otherwise shee needed to have bin to the great hinderance and
damage of her Owners and imployers And further hee cannot depose

To the 10th hee saith hee well knoweth being Mate as aforesaid
that the Olive Branch was and is a ship of the burthen of
about two hundred tonnes and carried in her the voyage in
question eighteen gunnes and two and forty men and boyes And
was in this deponents Judgment then worth to be let to
freight for an East India voyage two hundred and twenty
pounds sterling per moneth And further hee cannot depose/

To the 11th hee saith that the Company of the Olive Branch
having bin by the meanes aforesaid much hindered in the
sayd voyage and being desirous to gaine what tyme they could
did (after winter was a little over) with what speede they
could come from the Maurisses and by reason of such
their early coming away thence, met with severall violen Stormes
whereby the sayd ship was in very great hazard and danger,
and susteyned much damage both in her hull, sayles,
and rigging, to the value (in this deponents Judgment) of two
hundred and fiftie pounds sterling at least, all which damage
in all probability and as hee verily beleeveth had bin avoided
had shee not bin hindred by the dutch in manner aforesaid
And further hee cannot depose/

To the 12th hee saith that the arlate Abraham hill John Gregory
henry Crone and Company are in this deponents Judgment by
reason of the losse of tyme, (the sayd ship Olive Branch being
as aforesaid hindered in her voyage by meanes of the sayd dutch
East India Company, six or seaven moneths) damnified to the
summe