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Transcription

C:4.

The same day of September 1658/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Samuell Wilson John Turner and Company}
Owners of the ffrancis and John (Lawrence}
Browneing Commander) and John dethicke John Bankes and Company freighters thereof}
against}
the Governour and Company of dutch Merchants}
of the United Netherlands tradeing}
to the East India and being of that Company}
ffrancklin}

Examined on Interrogatories Administred
on the part and behalfe of the sayd Samuell
Wilson John Turner and Company
Owners of the ffrancis and John aforesayd/

Rp. [?X] eibus.

jus

Lawrence Browneing of Ratcliff in the
parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner
Captaine and Commander of the shipp ffrancis and
John the voyage in question aged fiftie two
yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew the Shipp
ffrancis and John Interrogate the voyage in question hee this
deponent being the Interrogate Lawrence Browneing the Captaine
and Commander of her for the sayd voyage And knoweth that the
sayd shipp and her tackel Apparrell and furniture did the sayd
voyage and doth and ought to belong to the Interrogate Samuell Wilson John
Turner and Company all English men and subiect sof this
Commonwealth of England./

To the 2 Interrogatorue hee saith hee being Master of her as aforesayd
knoweth that in or about the moneth of January one thousand sixe
hundred fifty sixe (English style) the sayd shipp was by her sayd
Owners lett to freight to the Interrogate Sir John dethick John
Bankes and Company for a voyage to be made from London to
Bantam Interrogate there to lade pepper or other goods for their
Accompt and to transport the same thence for Europe./

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that hee this deponent was and went
Captaine and Commander of the sayd shipp ffrancis and John the
voyage in question on which voyage the sayd shipp with certayne goods
laden aboard her at London by the foresayd freighters Sir John dethick
John Bankes and Company sett sayle from London in the moneth of
fferbruary in the yeare 1656, and upon the twelfth day of that moneth was cleered
by the searchers at Gravesend and thence went to the downes whence
shee sett sayle the fifth day of march next after, bound for Bantam
and arrived safe on the twenty nynth day of July 1657 within the
sight of the land of Java in East India but commonly called the South
Seas, and about fower leagues from Bantam, not farr from the
Island of Polipanjam./

To the 4th and 5th Interrogatories hee saith that upon the arrivall of the sayd
shipp the ffrancis and John in the parts of East India, and while shee
was