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Transcription

tooke by force foure Portugueses souldiers out of the Beniamin while shee
was under the said restraint, which souldiers Agent Greenhill had put
aboard to be landed any where on the coast of India, they
having bin upon articles [XX fXXX] by the dutch as their taking of Calumba
in the Iland of Ceilon. And when at length this deponent was
cleared, hee desired leave of the said commander in cheife, that
hee might send in a boate to an English shipp belonging
to his principalls then riding in the port of Goa, to give her
advise of his proceedings and being there, but the said Commander
would ot give leave but flatly denied the same, although this
deponent offered that one of his men should goe alonge and sea that
his boatewent only to that shipp, and not ashore, and should heare
that hee did not send any intelligence what [?soever] to their
preiudice. And further hee deposeth not, seeing that
severall times while this deponent soe remained prisoner, the
f[?iscall] of the said dutch fleete dealt with and persuaded
this deponent to subscribe with his hand to a note which hee the
said [?ffiscall] had prepared, purporting, that this deponent and
company absolutely tooke the said two men of warr to be ffranch man (sic)
and that they endeavoured to goe under the refuge of the forts,
without taking notice that they proved to be dutch men,
or what ensued as aforesaid, which this deponent refused to signe,
telling him hee would adhere to the truth of the matter as
it happened and as hee had declared, being as aforesaid.

To the nineteenth hee saith that by the foresaid hostile actions,
seizure and detention of the said shipp the Beniamin by the dutch,
besides the dishonour redounding to this nation, the owners and
imployers of her have suffered much losse and dammage, and in
particular hee estimateth the losse redounding to the
owners of her (all English man and subiects of this nation) by
the shattering and tearing of the shipps hull tackle and
furniture by the said shooting of the dutch, and by their rifling
the seamans goods and clothes, to the summe of one hundred pounds
sterling, and by hindering and not permitting her to goe or send
to the said English shipp lying in the port of Goa, named the
hopefull frigot (being in the same service that the Beniamin was),
and which had salt peter and pepper and other goods aboard provided
to be put aboard the Beniamin, which the Beniamin was not
suffered to receive, hee estimateth the dammage therein redounding
to them a summe of six hundred and thertie pounds sterling more
which shee would have made or gained for the freight of them, and
by soe longe the Hopeful frigots staying at Goa; and the Beniamins staying soe
longe for her at Surat, caused the Benaimin to stay soe long in
India that shee lost her passage gome for that season
being six monethes losse of time, which hee estimateth in p[XXXX]
of dammage and losse to the said owners at two hundred and
fiftie pounds per moneth sterling, amounting for the six
monethes to fifteen hundred pounds, Moreover through her
said long stay (occasioned by the said seizure and violence) shee
off