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To the 9th. 10th. 11th. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16 … To the 9th. 10th. 11th. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16 and 17th hee doth not depose
To the 18th hee saith that during all the times aforesaid and when the<br />
said shipp ''Endymion'' suffered the foresaid affronte and iniuries from the<br />
dutch, shee wore the English colours, and well knowne to and noted<br />
by the dutch to be an English vessell, and to be belonging to the<br />
English East India company, and the said shipps that did the<br />
said Iniuries and affront were all dutch shipps, of which the<br />
Generall was named the ''Erasmus'', and were in all when the
''Endymion'' there first arived the said voyage fourteene innumber<br />
or thereabouts, and when shee came back from Jambee they were<br />
about seaven or eight shipps stronge, and were all in the<br />
Imployment of the dutch or Netherland East India Company,<br />
and when the ''Endymion'' arived soe first there the said voyage<br />
the said fleete of dutch shipps were uner the Command of<br />
Generall Schouten, and when shee soe came back from Jambee<br />
they were under the command of General Lilly both dutch men and<br />
in the service and imployment of the said dutch East India Company.
To the 19th hee saith that the dammage befallen the said English<br />
East India Company by reason of the said wrongs and interuption<br />
from the dutch donne to the ''Endymion'', must [?XXX] as ee saith<br />
amount to many thousand pounds, byt hee cannot estimate the<br />
particular summe. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition was and is true.
John Harrard. [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctopr Godolphin.
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The fourteenth of November 1657
Examined upon the foresaid allegation
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'''Jonathan Lee''' of Ratcliff in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner, aged 36 yeares ir<br />
thereabout, sworne and examined.
To the first hee saith and deposeth that for all the monethes<br />
in the yeares 1655. 1656. and 1657 arlate and Longer, namely for<br />
theise twelve yeares last past of his sight and knowledge The<br />
Governpour and company of English Merchants trading to East India<br />
hee used to send their shipps and servants and officers in trading<br />
imployment to Bantam and other parts and places of the East India's<br />
and have for all the said time had and have at present factories at<br />
Bantam, Maccassar, Surat, Jambee, and other parts of the said<br />
Indias and places thereabouts, and kept and jeepe severall officers<br />
and servants to manage and prosecute their commerce there, and<br />
thence to send for England the goods, wares and merchandizes of the<br />
growth, manufacture and vent of that countrey and those places<br />
All countrey and those places<br />
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