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then cheife Mate or her commander or any of her
company did not offer any affront iniurie or provocation to any
dutch shipps that were then in those parts, or to any of the Commanders
or Company of the same, nor as hee beleeveth did any of the
said other English shipps, commanders or companies offer any
injury or affront whatsoever to the dutch. And otherwise
hee cannot depose.

To the third and fourth hee cannot depose saving what followeth.

To the fifth 6. 7 8 and 9th articles hee saith
and deposeth that the shipp the Marigold. (wherein this deponent
was and whereof hee was masters cheife mate as aforesaid) having
bin at the coast of Coromandel, and comming thence with goods for
Bantam, wto shipps of the dutch fleete which lay under or neare Pullapanjam
to looke out and speake with any shipp that passed came aboard
her, and told her commander that hee must goe in with his
said shipp to their Admirall who with the rest of the dutch fleete
were riding neare Pullapanjam aforesaid beare Bantam, and
before such their speaking with the Marigold, each of the said
dutch shipps as they were weighing to come
towards her shott off a gun. And being soe commanded the
said shipp the Marigold went accordingly, and came to an
anchor neare the said Admirall or Generall called the Heer
Lilly, by whom hee, with the said shipp was prohibited and not
suffered to goe into Bantam roade but kept lying by the said Admirall, and this hee saith was in November 1656
And while shee soe lay there the said shipp Endymion comming from
Jambee for Bantam was alsoe there stayed by the dutch and
forced to come to an anchor and not suffered to goe into Bantam roade.
And saith that after the said shipp Marigold her having bin soe stayed
by the said dutch fleete, shee leaving the Endimion there went
for Battavia, to supplie her [?necessity] of victualling, and after shee
had bin about a fortnight at Battavia, the Endymion arived
there alsoe of this deponents sight and knowledge. And while
the Marigold soe lay at or neare Battavia, the
Scritterers of mr ffrederick Skinner (Agent of the said English
company) who were there aboard, (being three or foure in number)
were with all the writings, and disptaches that were in them
fetched from aboard her by order of the dutch Governour, who
sent a boate with his [?fisrall] and severall souldiers aboard her
and the said [?fisrall] seized and carried them ashore to Battavia in the
said boate. And being ashore, the sid Scritteres were (as this deponent
was there informed) broken open by a Committee of dutch thereto
appointed, and all the writings and dispatches therein perused and
searched into by them by order of the said dutch Governour. And after
they had bin soe ransacked and perused, hee saith the said Scritteres
with all their locks broken up were retourned aboard the Marigold, whose
companie refusing to meddle with the receipt thereof, the dutch that
brought them left them and went their wayes. And further saith
that while the Marigold and Endymion as aforesaid were under
the REstraint of the dutch fleete at Pulayanjam the said frederick Skinner the
English