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insomuch that they within could not looke out without danger of being shott
nor indeed could they continue safe within, the shott comming frequently in at
the windowes and through the walls from the Castle, as being purposely
directed and aimed to destroy the said house and they that were therein, And
saith that on sunday the first of May of the said yeare, English stile, the
dutch out of their desire of destroying the said English factorie set
fire on houses of the village which were within twenty yards or thereabouts
and next unto the said English house, and this they did albeit there
were houses of the Negroes much nearer the said Castle than the
said houses which they first fired, and had their intention bin
rather to annoy the Negroes than to Doe mischeife to the English
they would as hee conceiveth have begun in their firing with the
said houses that were neerest unto them. But as hee saith
the fire suddainly after it was so begun lighting on the said English
house, the said English factors and their servants bestirred themselves
to quench it and endeavoured to pull off the thatch for the
better extinguishing the fire, but the dutch soe plied it (as this deponent
understood for heewas now gonne aboard where hee was withinn sight of it namely within halfe an English mile of it)
with small shott that the servants could not get up to pull downe
And soe hee saith the said house was on the said first of May 1659

burnt and destroyed by the said dutch and their meanes, by such their
firing and routing and XXX the XXX and keeping the
XXX from being XXX. And XXX XXX XXX XXX
XXX it logs were dangerously burnt, XXX or darker was XXX
to be put to XXX XXX XXX. And further then this deponent while
XXX XXX XXX XXX (whXXX XXX would on salt XXX XXX was above fourteene XXX
or thereabout before the said firing) saw then there was XXX of goods and
merchandize therein belonging to the said XXX XXX, of the
XXX andqualities ention in the XXX XXX, and as XXX
beleaveth the very qualities of the XXX therein expressed, XXX of
quantities and knew and tooke notice of which goods and merchandize
XXX were dXXX (saving the XXX) by the XXXby the said fire
and XXX XXX XXX XXX following XXX
deponent XXX) to XXX with his said prize, XXX XXX XXX
XXX XXX XXX XXX requested him to returne with
his boate and some of his Company and XXX of the Company to
XXX XXX to XXX the XXX XXX was left in the XXX and ruine
of the said cargo, all SSS of her goods being destroid with fire as
aforesaid, whereof the said XXX and XXX XXX before this deponent
XXX to XXX. And saith then this deponent and XXX of his
Company in his boate and XXX of the said East India and XXX XXX and
XXX in the XXX XXX and arriving on the said XXX XXX under XXX
morn of XXX following for and firm, and endeavouring to goe from to
XXX off the said iron (XXX about 200 barrs) the duty firme the XXX
fall