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