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in the power and peaceable possession of h … in the power and peaceable possession of her master and company all<br />
Englishmen (save one who was a ffrench man) for the use and behoofe of the<br />
said Peter and Abraham Caulier and company, and were from thence to<br />
have gonne for the Barbadas where the said Negro's and Elephants teeth<br />
were to be sold and bartered away for sugars and commodities of that<br />
place for the account aforesaid, and saith that while the said shipp<br />
was soe at and neere the said Cape shee was in a quiet and peaceable<br />
condition, without her master or companies doing or offereing any violence<br />
or hurt, to any shipp or person of or belonging to any shipp. which hee<br />
knoweth being there, and Gunner of the said shipp.
To the third hee saith that within the said time and while the said<br />
shipp was with the said Negroes and Elephants teeth neere the said<br />
Cape and was going to saile thence, there were two dutch shipps there<br />
riding, commanded and manned with dutch men (or most of them<br />
dutch men) subiects of the States of the United Netherelands, one of the<br />
said shipps called the ''Cat frigot'' commonly saod to be belonging to<br />
Amsterdam, and the other of them said to be alsoe belonging to the lowe<br />
countries in Subiection to the said States, and for such they were acknowledged<br />
by their commanders and company, and that they were set out thence<br />
and saith that the said Captain Cox was commander of the said shipp<br />
the ''Cat frigot'', and Captain [?Japoon] was commander of the other<br />
The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesaid./
To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that within the said time<br />
and while the said shipp the ''Brotherhood'' was soe upon the said coast<br />
neere Cape Lopus and going to saile namely about the beginning of<br />
the moneth of ffebruary 1655 (English stile) there came the said<br />
Captaine Coxes boate from his said shipp, manned with<br />
armed men who and forcibly<br />
entred the said shipp the ''Brotherhood'' and in an hostile manner<br />
seized and possessed them selves by violence of her and of her said<br />
Negroes and Elephants teeth, and dispoiled and dispossessed her<br />
master and company, and turned them into the said boate wherein they<br />
came aboard her, and carried and put them and kept them prisoners<br />
aboard the said frigot the ''Cat'' of the sight and by the order of the<br />
said Cox and approbation of Japoon, and brought the said shipp the<br />
''Brotherhood'' to an anchor betwixt the said two dutch shipps, and<br />
the next day the said Captaine Cox sent all the said shipp the<br />
''Brotherhood'' her company (whereof this deponent was one) and<br />
turned them (saving the said ffrench man) ashoreat Cap lopas in<br />
a [?desolat] and insociable condition, unprovided both of food and<br />
necesssaries, exposing them to the mercie of the savage people, and<br />
in their sight sailed away with their said shipp Negro's, Elephants teeth<br />
and all their clothes (saving what they had on their backs) and necessaries<br />
and soe the said master and company were utterly deprived thereof, and<br />
the said owners despoiled and lost their said shipp, Negros and Elephants<br />
teethpp, Negros and Elephants<br />
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