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deponent hath lived and resided in the Eas … deponent hath lived and resided in the East India's and South<br />
seas in the service and employment of the East India Company<br />
of England, and thereby well knoweth that the Governour and<br />
Company of English Merchants trading to East India, have used<br />
to send their shipps servants and officers to Bantam (where<br />
hee saith they have a factory and soe have had for all the said time [?att]<br />
Maccassar, Surat, and Jambee (at all which places hee hath<br />
bin and thereby knoweth that the said company hath factories<br />
in them all) and other places in those parts and climates<br />
and trade and traffique in those places by their factors and<br />
servants, and to have goods and merchandizes of those places<br />
retourned to England (saving the interruption from the dutch<br />
hereafter mentioned) and this hee conceiveth they might lawfully<br />
doe and exercise, as alwaies they have donne saving the<br />
interruption of the dutch, and hereof hee saith there was and<br />
is a publique [?XXX] and fame. And further doth not depose.
To the second article hee saith and deposeth that in the<br />
yeeres 1655 and 1656 arlate and monethes therein the said<br />
Governour and Company of English Merchants or some of them sent to East<br />
India aforesaid diverse of their shipps which arived thither in<br />
safetie, and had there trading upon their merchandizing<br />
affaires and imployment theise shipps followeing of his sight and<br />
knowledge, namely the ''Endimion'', the ''Marygold'', the ''Golden''<br />
''Cock'', the ''Olive branch'', the ''Jonathan'', and the ''Beniamin'',<br />
none of which shipps , officers or companies nor any of then, offerd<br />
any the least injurie or affront (as hee beleeveth) to any dutch<br />
shipps that were in those parts or to any the commannders or<br />
company thereof, And hee heard that the ''Assada Merchant''<br />
and other shipps were alsoe in those parts in that time<br />
namely in 1655 and 1656. And further hee doth not depose.
To the third and fourth hee cannot depose, saving what<br />
followeth, for hee was not then neere Bantam, nor saw the<br />
first arivall there of the ''Endymion''.
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that in or about<br />
december last past (1656) the shipp the ''Endimion'' arlate<br />
having bin at Jambee, was comming for Bantam in the said<br />
Companies imployment, and being come within foure leagues<br />
or thereabouts of Bantam, the ducth fleete (of which the<br />
Heer lilly was then Generall) lying a=or riding there,<br />
namely about foure leagues from Bantam, espying her,<br />
some of their shipps went out and fetcht her in, and <br />
commannded and caused her to come to an anchor<br />
amongest their fleete, neere their said Generall, and<br />
prohibited her from going into the Roade of Bantam, which<br />
heethe Roade of Bantam, which<br />
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