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Transcription

All which hee knoweth for that hee for the said twelve yeares last
hath as a Mqariner used the said trade of East India, and
in that sopace made foure voyages thither, and frequented the said
factories and places, and thereby alsoe well knoweth, that teh said
Companies shipps have freely gonne and come to and from their said factories
with their lading for all the said time (saving the injuries hereunder
mentioned) And saith the premisses were and are publique and
notorious, and theref there hath bin and is a publique voice and
fame.

To the second article hee saith and deposeth that within the said yeeres
1655 and 1656 and monethes therein respectively concurring the said
Gouvernour and Company of English Mercahnts trading to East India sent
diverse of their shipps to those parts, which arived there in
safetie, and that they had at the said East Indies and parts
thereabouts in the said time the shipps the Endymion (whereof
first Gervase Couchman and after his death John Garrard
was commannder) The Marygold, the Golden Cock, the
Olive-branch and the Jonathan, all which hee this deponent saw
there within the said time, and credibly heard that the shipps the
Beniamin and Assada Merchant were alsoe then there, and in
the Endymion and Golden Cock this examinate sailed, and
thereby knoweth that neither of them or any of their company
or commannders, nor as hee beleeveth any of the said other shipps
offered any injurie, affront or provocation to any dutch shipps
or their commanders or any of their company that were in
those parts at that time.

To the third and fourth hee cannot depose, for this deponent came
out into the said shipp Endymion that voyage, till her comming to
Jambee.

To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that hee being at
Jambee, saw the arivall thither of the said shipp the Endymion in the
voyage arlate, where hee saith shee tooke in what pepper shee
could get, which being donne shee set saile for Bantam, neere
unto which place (as her company reported) shee had bin before that
her comming to Jambee, but was not permitted to goe in, and
saith hee this deponent came passenger in her from Jambee
and thereby well knoweth that when she came neare the dutch
fleete, which was about nine saile, and rode about foure
leagues off Bantam, shee was commannded to come into the
said fleete and to come to an anchor neere the dutch Generall
whose name as hee remembreth was the Heer Lilly, and the said
shipp Endymion obeying came accordingly to an anchor, and [?there]
hee saith some of the dutch shipps that
had