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The fourteenth of Aprill 1660. … '''A:2:'''
The fourteenth of Aprill 1660.
On the behalfe of the Governour and}<br />
Company of English Merchants trading}<br />
to East India against the Dutch East India}<br />
Company, or other subjects of the States of}<br />
the United Netherlands.}
Examined upon an allegation given in on the behalfe<br />
of the said English East India Company
'''Abraham Ripley''' Chyrurgeon resident at present<br />
in the parish of Saint Michaell Woodstreete London, and<br />
borne in or neare the same parish, aged 33 yeares or<br />
thereabouts, sworne and examined saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth videlicet.
To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth Cape Coast situat on the Gold coast in Guiney<br />
mentioned in the said allegation and well knew the house or factorie of the honourable English<br />
East India and Ginney company therein situat before the same was ruined as is<br />
hereunder mentioned, this deponent having lived foure yeares and upwards<br />
at Cormantine Castle, and bin severall times in that space at the said [XXXX]<br />
And saith that the danes being possessed of the Castle of Cape coast aforesaid<br />
they (wanting trade) delivered it up to the dutch on the sixth of Aprill 1659<br />
this deponent being then there and then seeing the dutch in possession of it<br />
affore the danes were gonne out And further that the Negro's natives of that countrey disliking such<br />
possession of the dutch, laid seige to the said Castle soe yeilded up by the danes<br />
and endeavoured to take it from the dutch againe and this hee saith happened<br />
in the said moneth of Aprill 1659, and this deponent<br />
being retourned from the said Cape to Cormantie castle during the said<br />
seige, there came a letter on or about the first of May 1659 from John Gatton<br />
cheife factor for the said Company at the said Cape living in the said house<br />
of the said Company there, directed to mr Roger Chappell Principall<br />
factor for the said Company at the said Castle of Cormantine, purporting<br />
that the dutch had dired the said house and factorie of the English and<br />
the goods and merchandizes therein that were combustible, and by<br />
shooting hindred the English from quenching the fire and from saving<br />
the goods. Whereupon the said Mr Chappell sent william [?Haldane] John<br />
Gardner and this deponent with a leyter to Mr Gaspar van Husen the<br />
Principall of the Hollands factorie at ffort Saint George or [?Mina] on the<br />
said coast, (being about seaven leagues distant from the Castle of<br />
Cormantine,) to complaine of the said spoile and dammage<br />
committed by the dutch on the said English company, and that in their<br />
passage by sea to goe to the said dutch principall, rowing vy the<br />
said Cape coast, this deponent saw that the said English house or factorie<br />
(which this deponent about a weeke before<br />
had bin at and seene the same standing in good condition) was burned downe<br />
according to what was soe signified from the said Mr Gatton. And saith<br />
that on the second of the said moneth of May (as hee remembreth the day<br />
of the moneth) this deponent and his two Companions arriving<br />
at the said place of Residence of the said dutch Principall, delivered the<br />
said letter unto him and Complained of the said spoile and dammage<br />
And the said Mr van Husen having read the said letter and heard their complaint,<br />
seemed very sorry for the said wrong committed, and said that if it could be<br />
made appear that the dutch did it wilfully, satisfaction must be made<br />
for satisfaction must be made<br />
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