HCA 13/72 f.495r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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| Folio | 495 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2013/12/10 | |
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overpowered, shee became subued by them, and they made themselves
masters of her and her company, and commanded and received the
said Captaine Browne and his cheife mate and cheife merchant
prisoners aboard their said shipp that soe first came up. And
saith that then the Captaine an company of the Beniamin fully
found and understood that the said two shipp (being man of warr) were
dutch and were belonging to the East India company of the
United Netherlands, and that shee which soe came first
was named the Marrs, commanded by one Captaine Smart, and
that the other wa named the Zierickesea, and that they were
soe, this deponent hear severall of their companies say and
acknowlege, And saith that after the said shipp Beniamin had bin
about five dayes under the said seizure by the said dutch, and
was with much adoe released, the said Captaine Browne made
meanes to the Commander to get leave to goe or send into the
port of Goa, to advise the Hopefull frigot (an English shipp
which was there and was in the service of his principalls) of
his being there with the Beniamin, but it was denied him, and
soe hee and company were faine to goe next wayes to Surat,
and there [?longe] to expect the comming thither of the Hopefull frigot,
which had Pepper and Salt Peter aboard which was to be from her
transhipped into the Baniamin to be brought for England, and
by this violence and seizure of the Baniamin by the said dutch
shipps, and their hindering her to speake with or give advise
to the Hopefull frigat, shee was soe long detained and
delayed that shee lost the time of the yeere for retourne,
and was forced to be six monethe longer upon her
voyage than otherwise shee (in all probabilitie) would have bin
to the greate losse and dammage of her owners and imployers
Englishmen, subiects of this Commonwealth, and members of the
English East India company, all which hee knoweth being gunner
of her and going all the voyage in her, and saith that the
Beniamin when the said two dutch ships soe came up and assaulted
her, had the English colours abroad and faire to be seene, and
they well knew and unerstood her to be an English shipp, and
manned with English when they soe came up, and yet
notwithstanding they committed the wrong and violence predeposed.
And further hee deposeth not.
To the nineteenth article hee saith and deposeth that by the said
battering and tearing of the shipp the Benjamin by the shouting of
the dutch as aforesaid her owners have sustained dammage to the
summe of one hundred pounds sterling in his estimation, and for her
delay and hinderance of time by them being six monethes in his iudgment
hee estimateth their losse and dammage to be one thousand pounds, and
for losse of freight of pepper, Peter, and other goods which shee should
and would have taken in (more than shee did) if shee had not bin soe
hindered
