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Transcription

and furniture, and for such they were and are Commonly
Accounted and reputed, And this deponent was by the said
Owners constituted Comander of the said ship, which ship
hee saith was taken to ffreight to goe to the East Indias in or about the month
of January 1658 English Stile, by the Honourable the Governour
and Company of English Merchants trading to East India of and from the said Owners of the said
ship, which said Owners heer saith are alsoe of the said
Company, And the said ship being soe ffreighted
shee prceeded on her said voyage to the East Indias
upon the Account of the said Governour and Company
and coming about the midway betweene [?Vingiola]. and
Goa shee was met with and assaulted by seven dutch
ships whereof Peter de Bitter was Vice Admirall, which said
De Bitter and alsoe, many other of the said Dutch ships did
declare and affirme that all the said ships were in
the service of the Dutch East India Company, And
the Company of one of the said ships called the
Dunburgh did in a hostile manner fire two peeces
of Ordinance with shott at the said shipp Constantinople
Merchant which came very neere her, and forced her to come
within their Command. The premisses hee deposeth being
Captaine of the said ship as aforesaid and on board her
the said time and an Eye and Eare witnes thereof
Et alr nescit.

Ad 3um 4um 5um 6um 7um et 8um dicit that soe soone as the said ship
Constantinople Merchant was come within Comand
as aforesaid, this deponent caused his Company to strike the
sailes of the said ship and steered directly with the Vice=
Admirall (being then cheife of that Squadron) to speake with the
Vice Admirall, as was requisite, yet the Captaine of the
said ship Dunburgh comanded this deponents boate onboard
and in a most insulting manner menaced and threatned
that [?if ?hee] did not come on board him hee would lay the
Constantinople Merchant onboard and fire a broad side into her
shee being then nere to the Dunburgh, and thereupon
this deponent his skiffe on board with his precontest Mr
Solomon Hougham the Purser and one Mr fflyer one
of the said English Companyes ffactors therein, and not
long after the said ship Constantinople Merchant being come under
the Vice Admiralls sterne, this deponent did in a ffreindly manner
salute the said Vice Admirall with Nine peeces of Ordinance
and went aboard him, and after his coming onboard
the said Vice Admirall demanded this deponents sea Commission
(but