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Transcription

of Pepper, for account of them the said Governours
and Company, and to bring the same so laded thence for
the fort Saint George, whense it was to have bin transported for England, and here to be delivered for the account
aforesaid, All which this deponent well knoweth to be true
for that he hath seene severall orders and Discpatches of
the said Company concerning the same./ He saith further that
he hath also seen letters and Advises, sent by the said Com=
panies ffactors, and Agents imployed by them in East India about the
said ships designe, signifying that upon the said ships arrivall
before Acheene, they went ashore to get leave of the Queen
of Acheene to lade her there with pepper, and that they had
obtained the same, and sent a letter from her, togeather with a translation
thereof, unto the said Company for their
satifaction. And that thereupon they the said ffactors
began to provide Pepper to lade the said ship for
the said Companies account, and had sent one boates lading
of Pepper to the side of the Mayflower to bee
laden and taken aboard her which said boats llading contained
fifty foure bagges weighing in the whole 3868 ?lb English
weight; And thais deponent saith that the said letters purported
further that there lay then before Acheene three Dutch
ships (Commanded by one Balthazar Bort) in the immediate
service of the Dutch east India Company, and that the
said Bort seeing the foresaid boat laden with Pepper by the side
of the May flower, sent and seized the same, and caused it to
be carried and put aboard one of his three shipps named the
Concordia, which being done the dutch turned off the Mayflowers,
boat againe, ?but prohibited and forbad them to bring any
more Pepper from shore afterwards, so that the voyage was
wholly disappointed and frustrated to the great losse and
damage of the said English Company. And that, (also according
to the further Purport of the said letters) the Commander of the
May flower Captaine William Curtis, seeing the Premisses, went,
on board the ship of the said Balthazor Bort, and demanded
of him the Pepper by his order seized and taken out of the
May flowers long boat. and reasoned with the said Bort touch-
ing the foresaid Action, but was denied his Pepper, nor
could hee get any satifaction therefore; whereupon he and
John Sled and William Smith (two of the Companies ffactors)
or Agent there) made a Protest against the said Dutch, and
against such their Actions, and after sent to the said English company a Copy thereof
signed by a Notary publique and themselves which this deponent hath seene, and
beleeveth the names of the parties subscibed to the orig=
inall thereof and alsoe the letters sent by them, to be of their owne proper handwriting. And
this deponent saith he knoweth the ship Mayflower then was and is
of the burthen of two hundred and eighty Tonns or thereabouts
and that she was by the Companies order to have been fully
laden