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The thirteenth of November 165 … '''C:1:'''
The thirteenth of November 1657:
The Governour and Company of English}<br />
Merchants trading to East India and others against}<br />
the Governour and Company of Merchants}<br />
of the United Netherlands, thither trading.}<br />
Budd.
Examined upon an allegation given<br />
in on the behalfe of the said English<br />
East Indies Company on the 28th<br />
of October last.
'''Rp. .1. [X ?reliqui?t]'''
'''John Garrard''' of Wapping in the County<br />
of Middlesex Mariner, aged twenty nine<br />
yeeres or thereabouts, sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that for theise nine yeeres space last past hee this examinate as a<br />
mariner hath used the trade of East India, and made three voyages<br />
to those parts from this port of London, and in such voyages hath<br />
frequented the port of Bantam and other places whereunto the<br />
honourable English East India Company use to send their shipps, and<br />
servants, and thereby well knoweth that in the yeares 1655. 1656 and 1657<br />
the Governour and company of the said English Merchants have<br />
used the trade and send their shipps servants and officers to a place in Java<br />
Major called Bantam in the said parts of East India, where hee<br />
saith they have for all the said time had and still have a settled<br />
ffactory, and likewise to send to and to trade at Maccasser, Surat<br />
Jambee and other parts of the said east India and thereabouts. And<br />
saith that at Jambee and Bantam the said English company hath<br />
and imployeth from time to time severall officers and servants<br />
in their trade and commerce as likewise in other places thereabouts<br />
to send thence for England the goods wares and Merchandizes of<br />
the growth manufacture and vent of those parts and places, And<br />
that the said English company have from time to time for all the<br />
time aforesaid freely traded (saving the iniuries hereafter<br />
mentioned) and sent their shipps to Bantam and places aforesaid<br />
and brought them out thence with such goods wares and merchandizes<br />
as they thought good and that were provided for them, as they might<br />
(as hee conceiveth) lawfully doe, and this hee saith was and<br />
is publique and notorious, and observed by him soe to have bin<br />
had and donne as hee hath here deposed.
To the second article hee saith and deposeth that the said East<br />
India Company of England amongst other their shipps and<br />
vessells which they have sent to and imployed in the said parts of<br />
East India and thereabouts, they sent and had there in the yeere<br />
1656 in such their service and imployment the shipps the ''Endymion''<br />
whereof Gervase Couchman was commander, and which after his<br />
death was commanded by this deponent, who while the said<br />
Captaine Couchman lived was his mate the said voyage. The<br />
''Marygold'', the ''Golden Cock'', the ''Olive Branch'' and the<br />
''Jonathan'', all which shipps this deponent saw in those partsch shipps this deponent saw in those parts +
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