HCA 13/73 f.266v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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| Folio | 266 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2013/08/15 | |
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To the 4th. 5th 6th 7th 8th and 9th hee saith that about a moneth after
the Arrivall of the said ship the Bantam ffrigatt at Indra
Ponza aforesaid the said Thomas Newman, and one ffrancis
Griffith the then purser of the said ship (who is since deceased)
did goe on shore, in the said port of Indra Ponza, to buy pepper
and did buy a great quantity of pepper there, which was all
to have bin transported in the said ship to Leghorne,
for the Account of Sir John Dethick and Company aforesaid
And saith a Considerable Quantity of the said pepper
was Laden on board her, which did not Lade the said ship
two Third parts of what shee could have well carryed
and saith That while the Company of the said ship was lading
in the rest of the said pepper which the said Thomas Newman and
ffrancis Griffith had provided and whilest the said Newman
and Griffith were on shore, providing More pepper to Complete Lading
of the said ship, The arlate
Comander of the ship the Turtle Dove, whereof one Antonio van Voozt was Comander in the Service of the Dutch
East India Company, and alsoe three pinnaces in the Company
of the said ship Turtle Dove, which were alsoe in the service of
the Dutch East India Company, came all of them and
Anchored by the said Bantam ffrigot, and Imediately sent
a Boate on board the Bantam ffrigot, with a Dutch merchant
therein and two others of the the Turtle Doves Company with him who Comanded the said Isaac Taylor, and the said
Thomas Newman. (where upon the coming of the said Dutch
Merchant and the two others on board the said ship was sent came
on board, to the said Dutch merchant) Not to take in any
more pepper or other Goods onboard the said Bantam ffrigott
either at the said port of Indra Ponza, or any other port or
place on that Coast, for if they did the said Captaine
van Voozt who was the Admirall in those parts would seize and surprize them, or to that effect
and thereupon the said Mr Newman went with the said Dutch
Merchant onboad the said ship Turtle Dove to speake with the
said Captaine Van Voozst and knowe of him why hee
would not Permit him the said Newman to Trade [?with GUTTER]
his said Bantam ffrigot there, And saith that some [XXXX GUTTER]
after The said Newman had bin gone to the said Dutch
Admirall the said Captaine Isaac Taylor sent this deponent
in the Bantam ffrigots Boate. to fetch the said Mr Newman
from on board the said Dutch Admirall on board the Bantam ffrigot
And this deponent being come on board the said Dutch Admirall
hee heard the said Admirall Voozst, say and declare unto
the said Mr Newman that hee the said Voozst had Orders
from the Generall of Battavia to hinder all English Shipps
from Commerce and Trade in those parts, and to seize [?them GUTTER]
if they did soe, or to that effect, and alsoe shewed the said [?Newman GUTTER]
(in the presence of this deponent his orders in writing with a Great ?Seale Given him
the said Generall, to the foresaid purpose and effect, and [XXX GUTTER]
