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Transcription

To the second hee saith that hee being purser as aforesaid knoweth
that in the yeare and moneths arlate the sayd shipp the Olive Branch
was sett out and imployed from this port of London on a voyage to
Bantam in the East Indies there to take in her ladeing and bring
the same for Ligorne, and saith the sayd shipp safely arrived at
the East Indies neere unto Bantam upon the three and twentith
day of december 1656 this hee the better knoweth for that hee tooke
speciall notice of the tyme of her arrivall there it being soe neere
Christmas and for that hee alsoe tooke a noate thereof in writeing
And hee saith the Master and Company of the sayd shipp did resolve
then to goe into the Roade of Bantam there to take in her ladeing
And further to this article hee cannot depose

To the 3 article hee saith that at such tyme as the Olive Branch came
neere Bantam as aforesayd which was on the say aforesayd
the Commanders of severall dutch ffrigotts or shipps sett out and
imployed (as it was sayd) by the Dutch East India Company in holland
did cause severall peeces of Ordnance with bulletts some a head
and some a sterne of the Olive Branch to be fyred and discharged at her
thereby giving notice that the sayd shipp the Olive Branch was
not to goe into Bantam but to come by the Lee of the sayd dutch
shipps, as by their actions afterwards did more plainely appeare
And saith there were other dutch shipps namely the Erasmus being
then Admirall and other shipps belonging to the ducth East India
Company lyeing at Anchor not farr off by which the Olive Branch
must of necessity have passed before shee could have gott
into the Roade of Bantam And further to this article he deposeth not/

To the 4th hee saith imediately after the shooteing of the sayd gunnes
by the sayd dutch shipps, one of the Captaines of the sayd shipps
came aboard the Olive Branch and demanded of the Master and
Company of her whence they came and whether they were bound whereto
answeare was made that they came from London and were bound for
Bantam there to take in their ladeing and thereupon the sayd dutch
Captaine told the Master of the Olive Branch that hee and other dutch
shipps lay there on purpose to hinder all English shipps from
tradeing with the Inhabitants of Bantam by reason there was
warr betwixt the dutch and the King of bantam and therefore sayd
the Olive Branch should not goe in thither to trade and withall
willed the Master of the Olive Branch to beare up and come to the
Admirall of the dutch ffleete who roade not farr off which the
Olive Branch accordingly did this hee knoweth being purser and aboard
and an eye and eare wittnes of the premisses../