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off the cape de Bonne Esperance met with s … off the cape de Bonne Esperance met with such violence<br />
and fowle weather that beate and dammaged her<br />
and the goods aboard to the valew or summe (for the said dammage) of<br />
sixe hundred pounds. Moreover that the freighters or imployers<br />
(members of the said company) lost and were by losse of marke[?et ?an]<br />
deterioration of their goods, and delay of the retourne of<br />
the said shipp with their goods in time [XXXXXXXXX] and otherwise<br />
by the said assault and detention by the dutch, endammaged in<br />
his estimation to the summe of five thouand pounds sterling,<br />
and for preventing her taking in the<br />
goods out of the ''Hopefull frigot'' which were designed for her<br />
and which are still detained in India, hee iudjeth them to<br />
be endammaged to the summe of one thousand pounds<br />
sterling more. Adding that the said ''Hopefull frigot'' seeing<br />
the greate abuse soe donne by the dutch to the ''Beniamin''<br />
durst not come out of the port of Goa (as hee understood)<br />
through feare of ill usage alsoe by them, and soe<br />
the ''Benjamin'' was forced to stay longe in vaine at Surat<br />
expecting her. And further hee cannot depose.
Arnold Browne [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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19 August 1658.
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
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'''6.'''
'''William Lacy''' of Limehouse in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner, age 60 yeares or thereabouts sworne an<br />
examine.
To the seaventeenth and eighteenth articles of the sai allegation<br />
hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth and was Gunner<br />
of the shipp the ''Beniamin'' arlate in her last voyage to the East<br />
Indias happening in the yeeres 1655. 1656. and 1657, and well<br />
knoweth that the said shipp sailing from ffort Saint George<br />
for Surat and intending in her passage to touch at Goa,<br />
and comming in November 1656 neare the said port of Goa, there came two shipp<br />
(which the Captaine and company of the ''Beniamin'' tooke to be ffrench<br />
man of warr because they showed white colours) in chase after her<br />
but comming close up, they put out the colours of Holland<br />
or of the state of the United Netherlands, and the headmost of<br />
them comming very neare, Captaine Browne, commander of<br />
the ''Benjamin'' haled them, asking, whence their shipp, but [?XXXX]<br />
gave noe answer saving some fowle words, but presently [?XXXX]<br />
the ''Benjamin'' aboard and after a volley of small shott poured a<br />
broad side into her, therewith battering and tearing the [?XXX]<br />
tackle and shipping of the ''Benjamin'' exceedingly, and [?XXXXX]<br />
seaven or eight of her men, and then by force entering her and<br />
the other shipp being alsoe come up, soe that the ''Benjamin'' was<br />
overpowerede ''Benjamin'' was<br />
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