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there then any offensive or defensive weap … there then any offensive or defensive weapons in the hands of this<br />
deponent or any of his said shipps Companie as being resolved not to<br />
make any opposition against the said Dutch shipps Commander and<br />
Companies; they being at this deponent and Companie reiceived, their<br />
friends and Allyes; And this deponent further saieth, That during<br />
such his sadd and calamitous imprisonment at Batavia as aforesaid<br />
he this deponent did twice petition the said Dutch Generall [?Maetsuyres]<br />
and Councill of India in this deponent owne name and in the names of<br />
the said Mr Hobert [?Skinner] and Captaine Lawrence Browning<br />
that they might be allowed to have some of their owne shipps bread<br />
and provisions but the said Governr Generall and Councill<br />
did not at all grant or condiscend unto the same, neither was or<br />
were any such bread or provisions given or affoarded to this<br />
Deopnent or to the said Hobert Skinner. And further to this<br />
Interrogatorie he saieth he cannot depose. <br />
[?hepiated] before ?? Godolphin Samuel Stanton
2us The first day of September 1658
Joseph Barker or Hatcliffe in the parish of<br />
Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner late<br />
Steward of the said shipp the ''frederick'' aged<br />
26 yeares or thereabouts a witnesse produced<br />
sworne and examined upon the said interrogatories saieth and deposeth as followeth to witt
To the first and second interrogatories he saieth, That hee well knoweth<br />
the shipp the ''frederick'' interrate, whereof the [interlate?] Samuel<br />
Stanton was Captaine and Commander and that the said shipp, and her<br />
[XarXle] apparell and furniture did and doe belong unto the interrate<br />
Michale Gibbs, Vihard Birbs, Thomas [?Tirbnall] and unto John<br />
Beauchamp and William Beauchamp and one Mr Buenton and to this said Captaine Stanton<br />
Englishmen and Subjects of the Commonwealth of England, and for <br />
and as sure, well knowne and generally reputed; And this [exparate?]<br />
further saieth, That hee also well knoweth, That the said shipp ye<br />
''frederick'' in or about the moneths of January or ffebruary 1656<br />
English style was lett to freight by or on the behalf of the said <br />
Owners to the interrate Samuel Miro Daniel Skinner and others<br />
Merchants of this Citie and Subjects of this Commonwealth or<br />
to some of these for and upon a Voiage to be made with the said<br />
shipp from this Port of London to Bantam or other parte in the <br />
East Indies there to lade pepper or other goods and merchandise<br />
for the accompt of the said shipps freight or imployers and to bringd shipps freight or imployers and to bring +
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