HCA 13/72 f.492v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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| Folio | 492 |
| Side | Verso |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2013/12/28 | |
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shipp Beniamin whereof hee as aforesaid was commander, which shipp
Beniamin nor this deponent or any of her company thereof nor as hee beleeveth
any of the said other shipps or companies, offered any affront injury or
provocation to any dutch shipps or companies in those parts.
To the seaventeenth and 18th articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that
on or about the thirteenth of November (old stile) 1656 the said shipp the
Beniamin in service of severall of the members of the said company who
were owners and imployers of her, in her course of proceeding for Surat
comming off Capa R[?aules] neare Goa about nine of the clock in the morning
of the said day, this deponent her commander descried two shipps to the
Northward off {at} se, and the Beniamin having the winde at South East
and stearing away North and by West nearing them,
this deponent preceived that they lay at an anchor with their sailes loose
which gave him cause to suspect that they were french men of
warr, hee having before at Masulipatam bin advised that foure
or ffive ffrench men of warr were come into India, and
were suspected to lie on the coast of India, Wherefore hee
endeavoured to gaine Goa with his said shipp and lading to
prevent their assault, and about [XXXXX] come almost thwart the
outmost Iland of Marmag[?a]n off the port of Goa, and having [?pradd] her
English States colours, the winde veering out Southerly
the said two shipps being to seabord of her [?forthwith GUTTER]
weighed and pursued, without (for present) showing any colours
but some space afterwards namely about halfe an houre after the
said pursute soe begun, this deponent looking h[?ard] fully [?out GUTTER]
perceived upon the poope of the head most shipp, a white Ensigne
which confirmed his former suspittion of their being ffrench,
But saith that about an houre after, the
said head most shipp nearing the Beniamin, put abroad the
Hollands colours, and fired severall guns at her, having still
the English colours displayed, faire to be seene, which still increased
this deponents suspition that they were ffranch (sic), howbeit
upon their approach, this deponent and company not knowing
but that they might be hollanders, and not willing to give
them any affence (sic), at their second shott made from the
headmost shipp, halled up the Beniamines mainesaile to
stay for them, and the third shott struck, and tooke in the
Beniamins Topgallant sailes, and at the fourth lowered
her Top sailes to the slings being halfe mast
downe, and furled her spritsaile and other small
sailes, and asoone as the said shipp came within call, this
deponent went upon the poope of the Beniamin and
haled him, asking (in the small [XXXX XXXXX) whence youre shipp
but instead of a civill answer, this deponent received nore
other but foule language as S[kallam], Hontsfoot, Steart and
the like, the captaine of the said approaching shipp therein [XXXX GUTTER]
brandishing his naked sword and adding such fell countenance
threats and gestures as if hee would cut this deponent and company
in peeces, and commanded them to come by the Lee, to which
this deponent answered, that hee would soe doe, if they
the
