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off the cape de Bonne Esperance met with such violence
and fowle weather that beate and dammaged her
and the goods aboard to the valew or summe (for the said dammage) of
sixe hundred pounds. Moreover that the freighters or imployers
(members of the said company) lost and were by losse of marke[?et ?anGUTTER]
deterioration of their goods, and delay of the retourne of
the said shipp with their goods in time [XXXXXXXXX] and otherwise
by the said assault and detention by the dutch, endammaged in
his estimation to the summe of five thouand pounds sterling,
and for preventing her taking in the
goods out of the Hopefull frigot which were designed for her
and which are still detained in India, hee iudjeth them to
be endammaged to the summe of one thousand pounds
sterling more. Adding that the said Hopefull frigot seeing
the greate abuse soe donne by the dutch to the Beniamin
durst not come out of the port of Goa (as hee understood)
through feare of ill usage alsoe by them, and soe
the Benjamin was forced to stay longe in vaine at Surat
expecting her. And further hee cannot depose.

Arnold Browne [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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19 August 1658.

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

6.

William Lacy of Limehouse in the County of Middlesex
Mariner, age 60 yeares or thereabouts sworne an
examine.

To the seaventeenth and eighteenth articles of the sai allegation
hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth and was Gunner
of the shipp the Beniamin arlate in her last voyage to the East
Indias happening in the yeeres 1655. 1656. and 1657, and well
knoweth that the said shipp sailing from ffort Saint George
for Surat and intending in her passage to touch at Goa,
and comming in November 1656 neare the said port of Goa, there came two shipp
(which the Captaine and company of the Beniamin tooke to be ffrench
man of warr because they showed white colours) in chase after her
but comming close up, they put out the colours of Holland
or of the state of the United Netherlands, and the headmost of
them comming very neare, Captaine Browne, commander of
the Benjamin haled them, asking, whence their shipp, but [XXXX GUTTER]
gave noe answer saving some fowle words, but presently [XXXX GUTTER]
the Benjamin aboard and after a volley of small shott power a
broad side into her, therewith battering and tearing the [XXX GUTTER]
tackle and shipping of the Benjamin exceedingly, and [XXXXX GUTTER]
seaven or eight of her men, and then by force entering her and
the other shipp being alsoe come up, soe that the Benjamin was
overpowered