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Transcription

The 30th day of August 1658/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd Interrogatories/

Rp.

3us

Jasper Williams of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney
and County of Middlesex Mariner Coxon of the shipp Postilion
the voyage in question aged twenty one yeares or thereabouts
a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth
as followeth videlicet

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew the Interrogate shipp the Pos=
tillion (whereof the Interrogatorie John Kingsman the voyage in question was
Master) hee this deponent being Coxon of her that voyage And saith that
Symon delboe and Andrew Middleton Alderman Themys
Thomas Britten John Tayler and Abraham Syon Merchants of London were the sayd voyage the true and
lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the sayd shipp and alsoe sett her forth
in the yeare 1656 and freighted her with a Cargo of goods for Bantam
in the South Seas or East Indies./

To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth Bantam and saith there was the voyage in
question an English factory there setled and one Mr ffrederick Skinner
was then the Cheife Agent for the English there, and there were other English
Merchants and factors there resident And hee hath Credibly heard and beleeveth that an
English ffactory hath bin there established and English ffactors resident
and that the English Nation have freely traded thither for these
thirty of forty yeares last saving that for a yeare or two last past
their trade thither hath bin obstructed by the dutch And further saving his
subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/

To the third and 4th Interrogatories hee saith the Postillion with her outward Cargo
came neere Bantam and being within some few leagues therewith, was
mett with by a dutch shipp called (as afterwards appeared) the Sea hound
manned with a dutch Captaine and dutch mariners who held the
Postillion and asked whether shee was bound and answere was made by
John Kingsman Commander of the Postillion that shee was bound
to Bantam and came from London and told him if hee would come
aboard her would give him further satisfaction whereupon the sayd
dutch Captaine and some of his Company came aboard the Postillian
and the sayd Kingsman then telling him that the Postillian came from
London and was bound with her Cargo to Bantam to the English factory
there to trade the sayd dutch Captaine replyed that shee must not
goe in thither to trade for that there was warrs betwixt the
dutch East India Company and the King of Bantam and required the Postillian to goe with her ladeing for Battavia whereto the
sayd Kingsman answered and sayd what is that to the English
must not they goe to trade at their owne factory there because
there is a warr betwixt the dutch East India Company who are but
private