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Transcription

in the power and peaceable possession of her master and company all
Englishmen (save one who was a ffrench man) for the use and behoofe of the
said Peter and Abraham Caulier and company, and were from thence to
have gonne for the Barbadas where the said Negro's and Elephants teeth
were to be sold and bartered away for sugars and commodities of that
place for the account aforesaid, and saith that while the said shipp
was soe at and neere the said Cape shee was in a quiet and peaceable
condition, without her master or companies doing or offereing any violence
or hurt, to any shipp or person of or belonging to any shipp. which hee
knoweth being there, and Gunner of the said shipp.

To the third hee saith that within the said time and while the said
shipp was with the said Negroes and Elephants teeth neere the said
Cape and was going to saile thence, there were two dutch shipps there
riding, commanded and manned with dutch men (or most of them
dutch men) subiects of the States of the United Netherelands, one of the
said shipps called the Cat frigot commonly saod to be belonging to
Amsterdam, and the other of them said to be alsoe belonging to the lowe
countries in Subiection to the said States, and for such they were acknowledged
by their commanders and company, and that they were set out thence
and saith that the said Captain Cox was commander of the said shipp
the Cat frigot, and Captain [?Japoon] was commander of the other
The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesaid./

To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that within the said time
and while the said shipp the Brotherhood was soe upon the said coast
neere Cape Lopus and going to saile namely about the beginning of
the moneth of ffebruary 1655 (English stile) there came the said
Captaine Coxes boate from his said shipp, manned with
armed men who and forcibly
entred the said shipp the Brotherhood and in an hostile manner
seized and possessed them selves by violence of her and of her said
Negroes and Elephants teeth, and dispoiled and dispossessed her
master and company, and turned them into the said boate wherein they
came aboard her, and carried and put them and kept them prisoners
aboard the said frigot the Cat of the sight and by the order of the
said Cox and approbation of Japoon, and brought the said shipp the
Brotherhood to an anchor betwixt the said two dutch shipps, and
the next day the said Captaine Cox sent all the said shipp the
Brotherhood her company (whereof this deponent was one) and
turned them (saving the said ffrench man) ashoreat Cap lopas in
a [?desolat] and insociable condition, unprovided both of food and
necesssaries, exposing them to the mercie of the savage people, and
in their sight sailed away with their said shipp Negro's, Elephants teeth
and all their clothes (saving what they had on their backs) and necessaries
and soe the said master and company were utterly deprived thereof, and
the said owners despoiled and lost their said shipp, Negros and Elephants
teeth