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