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of the dutch there, and procure leave of h … of the dutch there, and procure leave of him for the ''Olive Branch'' to goe<br />
into Bantam, and the sayd Mr Skinner (as the sayd Brampton aff[irmed]<br />
to this deponent and others of the Company of the ''Olive Branch'') told the sayd<br />
Brampton that it was to noe purpose to sollicite the Generall to that<br />
effect, for hee the sayd Skinner had bin there with the Generall to get<br />
permission for the ship ''Endymion'' (who wanted only some smal[e]<br />
quantitie of her ladeing) to goe into Bantam for the same, and that<br />
the Generall had utterly refused to give any such leave, and had<br />
expressely forbidden the goeing thither of the ''Endymion'' or any<br />
other English ship whatsoever, Whereupon this deponent well knoweth<br />
that the sayd Brampton sett sayle with the ''Olive Branch'' from<br />
Battavia in Company of the ''Endymion'' for the roade of Bantam<br />
intending to trye againe if they could get in, but the dutch<br />
shipps there lyeing espying them, weighed Anchor and towed<br />
their shipps with their boates (there being little wynde) and came<br />
and Anchored round about the ''Olive Branch'' and ''Endymion'', and told<br />
the Masters of them in expresse termes that they should not goe<br />
in to Bantam, this hee deposeth of his sight and knowledge, And<br />
hath heard divers of the Company of the ''Olive branch'' saye<br />
that they heard the Commanders and Companyes of the sayd<br />
dutch shipps saye and threaten that if the ''Endymion'' and ''Olive''<br />
''Branch'' did endeavour any more to goe in to Bantam they<br />
would sinke them, by which meanes the ''Olive Branch'' and<br />
''Endymion'' were both (of this deponents knowledge) hindered from<br />
goeing into Bantam to take in their ladeing there, And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 7th hee saith that the Master and Company of the ''Olive Branch''<br />
being by the dutch hindered from goeing with their sayd ship into<br />
Bantam they went with her to a smale Island called Pullagunde<br />
being upon the Coast of Sumatra, and being an extreame hot<br />
and unhealthfull place, where by reason of the Intemperature<br />
thereof the Master of her the sayd Brampton, and divers of his<br />
Company dyed, And the sayd ship was constrained to stay there<br />
eleaven weekes and better to take in her ladeing which was<br />
secretly brought thither from Bantam in boates in the<br />
night tyme, this hee knoweth being then Mate to William<br />
Stannard, who upon the death of the sayd Brampton (being before<br />
chief Mate) became Master of her And further hee cannot depose
To the 8th hee saith that by reason the ''Olive Branch'' was by the<br />
meanes aforesaid soe long in ladeing shee lost her Monsoones,<br />
which is a constant winde which continually (until a certayne tyme<br />
in the yeare) blowes to bring shipps thence for England, and<br />
after such a tyme blowes contrary, soe that thereby the ''Olive''<br />
''Branch'' was forced to put into a place called the Maurisses<br />
to winter there the tyme being past for her coming for<br />
England And further hee cannot depose./
To the 9thnd further hee cannot depose./
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