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Transcription

schedule was then Agent for the English East India Company
at Bantam and the arlate James Bostock and Robert Cock
were then Merchants or factors then resident at the English
factory at Bantam and hee
well knoweth their names to the sayd schedule sub=
scribed to bee the proper hand writings of them the sayd Skinner
Bostock and Cock./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

William Reading [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 28 day of August 1658/ [CENTRE HEADING]

A busines of examination of wittnesses (in perpetuall}
remembrance o the matter) upon certaine Interrogatories}
given in on the parte and behalfe of Symon}
delboe Andrew Middleton Nathaniell Temms Thomas Britton John Taylor and Abraham Syon owners}
of the shipp the Postillion whereof John Kingsman}
was Master}

Examined on Interrogatoryes on the behalfe
of the sayd delboe Middleton
Temms Britton Taylor and Syon

Rp.

1

John Kingsman mariner Master of the
shipp the Postillion aged thirty
two yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet./

To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith hee well knew the shipp the
Postillion Interrogate the voyage in question hee this deponent being
the Interrogate John Kingseman the Master of her for the sayd vyage
And saith hee well knoweth that the sayd shipp did the sayd voyage
and for severall yeares before that (this deponent (having bin master of
her severall voyages within these five yeares last past) belonge ti the
Interrogate Symon Delboe Andrew Middleton Nathaniell Temms Thomas Britton John Taylor and Abraham Syon Merchants of
London and subiects of this Commonwealth who were the true Proprietors
of her and her tackle apparrell and furniture and soe ought to bee And
hee further saith that for that hee went Master of her the sayd voyage hee
well knoweth the sayd shipp was in the yeare one thousand sixe hundred
fifty sixe sett out by her sayd Owners from London with a Cargo of
goods to be transported in her for Bantam a place in the East Indies
or South Sea where the English have for many yeares had a factory
and English Agents and factors there constantly resident for the better negotiating
of trade of the subiects of this Commonwealth of England who have for
many yeares last past enioyed a free trade to Bantham without
any interruption or mollestation saving that within these two yeares last
past or thereabouts severall English shipps have bin molested in their trade thither by
the dutch and some of them taken to the great preiudice of the subiects of
this Commonwealth, And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose.