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flatly denied, and would not permit the Endimion to goe in. By
meanes of which stopping of her and deniall by the dutch of her going in to
take in such goods as were there provided for her, shee was forced to
retourne for England with considerable quantitie of dead freight, to the
greate dammage of the said English company (besides the dishonour
redounding by the predeposed to the English nation) being forced to have their goods left behinde,
which were probable to lie there and perish or be lost, and greate dis[XXXX GUTTER]
of the voyage, The premisses hee deposeth being Purser
aforesaid of the Endimion and going from place to place in her, and sawe
the said premisses soe donne. And further hee doth not depose.

Repeated before doctor Godolphin.

Thomas Bowdles [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The twentieth of August 1658,

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

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Richard Erdine of the parish of Saint Mary Matsellon
alias White Chappell neare London. Merchant
aged 26 yeares or there abouts sworne and examined.

To the seaventeenth and eighteenth articles hee saith and
deposeth that hee well knoweth the shipp the Baniamin
arlate and was Merchant or Supra cargo of her the voyage
in question, in behalfe of her imployers, and thereby well knoweth
that the said shipp the said voyage sailing from fort Saint George
on the coast of Cormandel for Surat (whereunto shee was bound
and comming neere the port of Goa, her Captaine and
this deponent espied two shipps which after wards made saile towards her
and they having espied a white Ensigne upon one of them
and having before heard some report that there were ffrench
men of warr come into the parts of India, [gave GUTTER]
them cause to suspect them to be such, but comming neare to
her, they perceived them to have the Holland colours aboard
and saith that at a distance they shott from the Headmost of
the said two shipps, three guns, two thereof thwart her fore[XXX GUTTER]
and the other over her, and although the said shipp Benjamin
did slack her sailes asmuch as conveniently shee (in this deponents
iudgement) could, yet the said head most shipp comming very neere
powred a broad side, or the greatest part of a
broadside into her and shott severall small shotts, and
that by such shooting and powring in the said greate guns, hee
saith there were seaven or eight of the Baniamins men
wounded, and her hull passed through with
six or seaven shott, whereby the same with her tackle and
rigging were torne and ?burnt, and then they of the said shipp that soe [?shott] sent there boate
aboard and carried the said commander of the Baniamin
(Arnold Browne by name) aboard the said dutch shipp and
th[?en]