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Transcription

The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

examined on the sayd Interrogatories/

Rp.

4us

John Beard oof the parish of Saint mary Hill London Mariener
Coopers Mate of the shipp the Postillian aged twenty
two yeares and better a wittnesse sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To teh first Interrogatory hee saith hee well knew the shipp Postillian Interrogate
whereof the Interrogate John Kingsman was Master, hee this deponent goeing
Coopers Mate in her the voyage in question and saith
Symon delboe Andrew Middleton Nathaniell Temms Thomas Britten John Tayler and Abraham Syon all Merchants of
London and subiects of this Commonwealth were the true Owners and
proprietors of her and of her tackle Apparrell and furniture the sayd
voyage and that they did in the yeares 1656 Interrogate sett her out
from London with a Cargoe of goods for Bantam in the South Seas
or East Indies on a tradeing voyage./

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth Bantam being there the voyage
in question and saith there was then an English ffactory there arlate
and English factors and Merchants there resident and (as hee hath
credibly heard and beleeveth) soe hath bin for these thirty yeares last
past and upwards during which tyme as hee hath heard and beleeveth
the subiects of England have had free trade thither hath bin
?abstracted by the dutch nation And further saving his subsequent
deposition hee cannot depose.

To the 3 and 4th Interrogatories hee saith the Positllian with her sayd
Outward Cargoe came to the Streights of Sunde some few leagues
distant from Bantam, and there was met with by a dutch shipp
called the Sea hounds having a dutch Captaine and dutch seamen aboard
her which shipps Captaine haled the Postillian and demanded
of her Captaine John Kingsman, whence shee came, and whether shee
was bound, who answered she came from London and was bound
to Bantam to trade, whereupon the sayd dutch captaine willed the sayd
Kingsman to come with his boate aboard the sayd dutch shipp
and the sayd Kingsman answered and sayd hee would not come from
aboard his owne shipp and willed the sayd dutch Captaine if he
had any thing to saye to him to come aboard of him the sayd
Kingsman, whereupon the dutch Shipp sprung her ?Loofe and came
up to the Postillian and being come neere hawled up her boate
from her sterne and the Captaine came in her with some of his Company on
board the Postillian and being aboard he and told be the sayd
Kingsman