HCA 13/72 f.485v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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| Folio | 485 |
| Side | Verso |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2013/11/15 | |
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Counsell at Bantam had written and sent letters to the dutch Governour
at Batavia to obtaine leave for the said shipp to come into the said
roade of bantam to the effect aforesaid, and that they had receaved
an answer, purporting a deniall to gra[?nn]t such their request,
whereupon the said Agent hoping that his presence might effect
[?something] suitable to their desires, desired the shipp to be fitted out
to saile to Batavia, which was accordingly donne, and {XXX} that
said Agent and Counsell went to Batavia in the said shipp the
Endymion, and there went ashore to the dutch Governour, ans staid there
ashore about five dayes space solliciting and suing (as they reported
when they came back) to the said Generall for leave as aforesaid,
but all in vaine, for hee was soe farr from condescending to such
their reasonable request (as they repeated) that hee told them that
they should neither goe in with their shipp nor soe much as send in
their boate to Bantam, whereupon the said agent sent word a[?board GUTTER]
to this deponent, to acquaint him that there was nothing to be done
and therefore hee this deponent and company must [XXXX GUTTER]
themselves and shipp for a homeward voyage, upon which this deponent
wrote back to the Agent that they could not soe doe through want
of victualls, whereupon the Agent (as hee afterwards related when
hee came aboard) applied himselfe againe to the Generall an
acquainted him with such their want, and that with much adoe
the said dutch Generall had condescended that the Endymion
should have five dayes time to provide her selfe with water
and [?ryse], and soe to be gonne, and that after that space they should
have noe leave to goe or send their boate ashore, and soe with
a very small proportion of victualls (for there was none
to be gotten by them at Battavia) the said shipp Endymion was
forced to retourne for England with very much dead freight,
to the greate dihonour (the premisses considered) of the English
nation, the hazard of the voyage, and greate dammage of the said
English East India company, in being forced to leave their goods behinde, which are
like to lie there and perish, The premisses hee deposeth being then
(as aforesaid) commander of the said shipp the Endymion.
To the 8th hee saith that while the said shipp Endymion soe [?lay GUTTER]
the first time under the detention of the dutch, upon such her
first arrivall, Captaine Couchman sent out his boate with
some of his company to goe to a little adjacent [XXXXXX GUTTER]
Iland to cut a little wood, but the dutch to magnifie their [?power GUTTER]
and show their greate Imperiousnes, fired a gun at the said boate,
and forced the boate aboard their shipp, where the English were
constrained to aske them leave soe to goe and fetch a little wood and
for their [XXXXXXXXX] firing, otherwise they must have retourned
with out any wood for such their use, all which hee knoweth because
hee saw the same soe donne.
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