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tooke by force foure Portugueses souldiers … tooke by force foure Portugueses souldiers out of the ''Beniamin'' while shee<br />
was under the said restraint, which souldiers Agent Greenhill had put<br />
aboard to be landed any where on the coast of India, they<br />
having bin upon articles [XX fXXX] by the dutch as their taking of Calumba<br />
in the Iland of Ceilon. And when at length this deponent was<br />
cleared, hee desired leave of the said commander in cheife, that<br />
hee might send in a boate to an English shipp belonging<br />
to his principalls then riding in the port of Goa, to give her<br />
advise of his proceedings and being there, but the said Commander<br />
would ot give leave but flatly denied the same, although this<br />
deponent offered that one of his men should goe alonge and sea that<br />
his boatewent only to that shipp, and not ashore, and should heare<br />
that hee did not send any intelligence what [?soever] to their<br />
preiudice. And further hee deposeth not, seeing that<br />
severall times while this deponent soe remained prisoner, the<br />
f[?iscall] of the said dutch fleete dealt with and persuaded<br />
this deponent to subscribe with his hand to a note which hee the<br />
said [?ffiscall] had prepared, purporting, that this deponent and<br />
company absolutely tooke the said two men of warr to be ffranch man (sic)<br />
and that they endeavoured to goe under the refuge of the forts,<br />
without taking notice that they proved to be dutch men,<br />
or what ensued as aforesaid, which this deponent refused to signe,<br />
telling him hee would adhere to the truth of the matter as<br />
it happened and as hee had declared, being as aforesaid.
To the nineteenth hee saith that by the foresaid hostile actions,<br />
seizure and detention of the said shipp the ''Beniamin'' by the dutch,<br />
besides the dishonour redounding to this nation, the owners and<br />
imployers of her have suffered much losse and dammage, and in<br />
particular hee estimateth the losse redounding to the<br />
owners of her (all English man and subiects of this nation) by<br />
the shattering and tearing of the shipps hull tackle and<br />
furniture by the said shooting of the dutch, and by their rifling<br />
the seamans goods and clothes, to the summe of one hundred pounds<br />
sterling, and by hindering and not permitting her to goe or send<br />
to the said English shipp lying in the port of Goa, named the<br />
''hopefull frigot'' (being in the same service that the ''Beniamin'' was),<br />
and which had salt peter and pepper and other goods aboard provided<br />
to be put aboard the ''Beniamin'', which the ''Beniamin'' was not<br />
suffered to receive, hee estimateth the dammage therein redounding<br />
to them a summe of six hundred and thertie pounds sterling more<br />
which shee would have made or gained for the freight of them, and<br />
by soe longe the ''Hopeful frigots'' staying at Goa; and the ''Beniamins'' staying soe<br />
longe for her at Surat, caused the ''Benaimin'' to stay soe long in<br />
India that shee lost her passage gome for that season<br />
being six monethes losse of time, which hee estimateth in p[XXXX]<br />
of dammage and losse to the said owners at two hundred and<br />
fiftie pounds per moneth sterling, amounting for the six<br />
monethes to fifteen hundred pounds, Moreover through her<br />
said long stay (occasioned by the said seizure and violence) shee<br />
offseizure and violence) shee<br />
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