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Transcription

for the same, Moreover hee saith that the said dutch that were
soe at Cape Coast and committed the said dammage and wrongs
were in the service of the dutch Guiney and West India Company
subiects of the [XXXs] of the United Netherlands. And having read [?over GUTTER]
the schedule of goods lost and destroyed by the said burning, annexed to the
said allegation, hee saith and deposeth that the said respective goods and
merchandizes were in the said English house on wednesday next
the said burning (which happened on sunday the first of May 1649)
the sight and knowledge of this deponent who was then there and tooke
notice of them, and were (as hee beleeveth and was credibly informed
by the English who were present) all burnt by the [XXX]
aforesaid of the dutch, to the greate dammage of the said English [?India GUTTER]
and Guiney Company besides the overthrow of their house and
trade at the said coast. And further hee cannot depose.

Alex: Ripley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The eighteenth of Aprill 1660.

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

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John Duce of Wapping in the County of Middlesex Mariner
aged 36 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth the
Cape Coast mentioned in the said allegation, which hee saith is situated about
three leagues from Cormantine on the coast of Guiney, and well
knew the house or factorie of the honourable English East India and
Guiney Company situat on the said Cape Coast, and saith that about
three hundred paces from the said house was a Castle or fort which hath
bin built by the Swedes, and was afterwards taken from them by the
danes, and that the danes not being able to hold it through want
of supplies, did on or about the sixth of Aprill 1659 deliver the same
up to the dutch who were there in service of the Netherland [?Guiney GUTTER]
Company subiects of the States of the United Netherlands. At which
surrendrie the Negro's (the natives of the countrey) being much
offended, raised a greate force and came and beseiged the said fort or
castle, all which hee knoweth being then present in the [?Roade GUTTER]
of Cape coast in the shipp dove of London whereof hee was
commannder, and saith that this deponent going ashore and being
in the said English house in compamy with John Gatton and Nicholas
[?herrick] factors of the said English Company there resident, the dutch
in the time of the said seige namely on or about
the eight and twentieth of the said moneth of Aprill 1659, made
a shott at and shott the said English house through [?XXX]
bullet traversing neere this deponent and the said [?GXXX GUTTER]
and [?herrick] namely within a yard of them or thereabouts, and [?thereXXXX GUTTER]
the said dutch continued plying the said house with small shott