HCA 13/73 f.552v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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| Folio | 552 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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To the second article hee deposeth and saith that in or about September 165[?7 GUTTER]
the said mr hopkins with the help of this deponent and Christofer Cooper [?XX GUTTER]
Jes[?pnapatan] in the Iland of Ceilon hire and take for freight
for the use of the said Blake, Billedge and company a certaine vessell
there called a [?Champan] of the burthen of sixtie tonnes or thereabouts
and that in and aboard the said shipp the Unitie and the said [?Champan]
the said mr Billedge and alsoe the said mr Blake for the accompt of
themselves and of the said mr hopkins and company, by their factors or
agents (to whom this deponent was assistant) did at or near Bengal
hugle and Ballasor in the parts of East India lade and put all and
singular the goods wares and merchandizes mentioned and expressed in the
said schedule or the most part thereof, to be carried and transported in the said two vessells for
[?Jeffnapatan] aforesaid, which hee knoweth being present and
assisting at the said lading of the said goods, which happened in or about
November 1657. And after such lading aboard of the said goods, the
said two vessells under command of his precontest William Jourdan, went
to and arived at Jefnapatan in safetie with the said goofs in or about
January 1657, and were in the factory of Jefnapatan dischardged
and unladed all (saving certaine bales of salt Peter and some other
fardles) out of the said two vessells the Unitie and Champan, for the
use and account of them the said Blake, Billedge hopkins and company
which hee knoweth for that hee was present and saw the same, being
factor as aforesaid.
To the third article hee saith and deposeth That whilest the said two
vessells were and remained the said time at Jasnapatam and whilest
the captains of the said vessells, namely the said [?Jourdan] and company
this deponent and others remained there, newes came thether that [?a GUTTER]
fleet of dutch shipps was at [?Tutticurree], and had there taken [?XX GUTTER]
Portugal frigots, and that they were afterwards come to [?Maner ?Iland GUTTER]
and had taken in that Iland, and saith that in or about the end
of ffebruary 1757 (English stile) there came from [?Mannar] in [?XX GUTTER]
small vessells a dutch Armie to Jesnapatam, and beseiged it, and [?that GUTTER]
the fleete that brought the said armie thether was under command of
General Richloof and one John [?fflaske] and vander[?lieu] or some of them who hee saith were
and acknowledged themselves to be in the service and imployment
of the dutch Easr India Company, subiects of the lords States of the
United Netherlands, and this hee saith was and is true and notorious
and this examinate yeeldeth reasons as aforesaid of his knowledge of the
premisses.
To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that amongest other [?XXX GUTTER]
the proceedings and dealings of the said dutch ffleet in their Armie [?XX GUTTER]
their comming on towards and neer Jesnapatnam, it was comonly [?XXXX] with
much affliction to the Christians in those parts, that the dutch had in the [?said GUTTER]
Armie many Blacks [?Chengolas] [?Bandaneses], Amboineses and Javaneses, and
that they had proposed a reward unto them of a [?Purdo] (valewing a
peece of eight or thereabouts) per head for every Whitehead that they should
bring in of persons by them slaine, Whereupon the said Mr hopkins and
this deponent and the said Captaine Jourdan and company were [?for ?the GUTTER]
safeguard of their lives constrained to shift for themselves and flie
in which flight the said Mr Hopkins and this deponent betooke themselves [?XX GUTTER]
[?XX GUTTER]
