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Accompt of the said Frieghters, And saith that the said ffreighters and
the Owners of the said ship, did put and Constitute the said Isaac Taylor
Master And Comander of the said ship to goe the said Voyage, and the
said ffreighters did appoint and Constitute this deponent to goe Merchant
or Supra Cargo of the said ship the said Voyage, Which they Accordingly
did. And saith that at or about the time that the said ship the Bantam ffrigot
was the said Voyage in the East Indias the arlate Sir John Dethick
Knight, and the Arlate Edward Bolle, alsoe became ?Considearable freighters
of the said ship, as this Deponent (at his coming to Legorne after
his being in the East Indias the said Voyage) was Credibly Informed
by a Letter sent thither, to this deponent and the said Captaine Taylor, from
the foresaid John Dethick John Bankes Edward Bolle Richard fford, and other the ffreighters of
the said ship, and soe hee saith hee hath bin Certainly Informed
since his Coming to this City of London, And saith hee knoweth
not whether the said Sir John Dethick and the said Edward Bolle were
any part freighter of the said ship when she went first out on the said
Voyage, And further Cannot depose saving all the said Owners and
Freighters of the said ship are Englishmen, and subjects of this
Comonwealth as hee verily beleeveth:/:

To the 3d hee saith that the said ship the Bantam ffrigot being soe set out
upon the Account aforesaid, the said Isaac Taylor the Master of the said
ship, and Company of Marriners and this deponent the Supra Cargoe of her, arrived in and with the same
ship in the Roade of Indra Ponza in the Island of Sumatra, in the East
Indias on the seaventh of August 1657 English stile which hee knoweth for that
hee went thether in her in the quality aforesaid, And further hee
Cannot depose./.

To the 4th hee saith that
Indra Ponza Roade is and ought to be
a place free for the English to trade in ever which place the Queene of Achine
(whom this deponent well knoweth having lived with her about five yeeres)
was and is the supreame Governournesse; who did about three yeeres
since there: and at all other of her Dominions proclaime ffree
Trade to the English Nation; And saith hee hath a Copy of the
said Proclamation now in his Custody. And saith that after the
arrivall of the said Ship in the said Road this deponent and one
ffrancis Griffith (who is since deceased) went ashore to Indra
Ponza to buy and provide Pepper to lade the said ship, and did
there buy and provide enough Pepper fully to Lade the said ship, and was
all to have bin there put on board her. and to be Carried and
Transported in her to Leghorne for the Account of the said ffrancis
who hee knoweth for the Reasons aforesaid, And further deposeth not.

To the 5th articles of the said Allegation, hee saith that in the monethes
of September, and October 1657, this Deponent upon the Account aforesaid
did Lade aboard the said ship the Bantam, shee then Lying in the Roade
of Indra Ponza aforesaid six hundred seaventy two Bahares of Pepper
(And