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1973 Granadoeshells being all the foresaid Ammunition saving about 11 Granadoe shells which the saud Dutch persons [?conXXXXX] which worke continued untill the 26th
of September. 1659 soe that the said ship was not dismissed
untill the 27th of the said Month And further cannot Answer
saving what followeth./.

Ad 13 dicit that in the time of the said ships the Constantinople
Merchant being with the foresaid Dutch ships, the said Dutch
ships lay soe close to the Constantinople Merchant that shee
was in Danger to be fallen fowle upon by some of them
to prevent which her Captaine caused the Anchor to be weighed
by which shee roade to goe into a better birth, shee having
then onely her foretopsaile and mizen abroad And
soe soone as the said De Bitter had espyed the same
hee put out a blewe Antient, and fired a warning
peece, to give notice to the rest of the said ships to weigh or
slip their Cables, which they did Imediately, And the said
Vice Admirall made a shott at the Constantinople Merchant
(which ranged close under her sterne to comand her to come
to an Anchor againe which shee did and some of the Company of the
said Dutch ships told some of the Company of the Constantinople
Merchant that if they had not come to an Anchor as they did
it would have gone very hard with them. et alr nescit.

Ad 14 15 et 16 dicit that besides the Great Dishonor done
to the English Nation the foresaid [?Governor]
and Company of English Merchants trading to East India[?s]
have suffered very great losse and dammage by reason
of the Premisses (but how much hee saith hee is not
able to Estimate, neither doth hee Knowe the Vallue
of the foresaid Ammunition:/:

Sup reliqui non Examinatur ex directione:/:

Repetit coram duo Judicentes/

[?Solo] [?Honghams] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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7. die Novembris 1660./:

Sup Allone predict Examinatus./

(2dis

Robertus Browne de Stepney in
Comitatu Middlesex Nauta aetatis 32 annorum
aut do circiter testis productus et Juratus./

Ad jum 2um et 3um arlos dicit that for and during all the
yeere 1659 and at this present Sir John Robinson Sir
Andrew Riccard, Sir George Smith, Captaine William
Rider and Company all English Merchants and subjects
of the Kingdome well knowne to him this deponent were
and are the true and Lawfull Owners and proprietors
of the arlate ship the Constantinople Merchant
(whereof this deponent was Captaine) and of her tackle apparrell
and

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Pieter de Bitter

b. c.1620, d. 1666

See Wikipedia entry: Pieter de Bitter