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The premisses hee deposeth being acquainte … The premisses hee deposeth being acquainted with and privie<br />
to the dispatches and orders given and made by the said compan[ie]<br />
touching the said shipp and voyage, and entring them in a booke<br />
kept for such purpose And further hee deposeth not./
John Harbert./ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 20th of August 1658.
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''9.'''
'''Thomas Bowdler''' of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex<br />
Marchant, aged 35 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and<br />
examined.
To the second article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that in the yeare 1656 the Governour and Company of the<br />
English East India Company had in their merchandizing<br />
affaires and imployment in the parts of East India a certaine<br />
shipp named the ''Endimion'' whereof Gervase Couchman<br />
was Commander from which shipp or the Captaine or company<br />
thereof or any of them there was not any the least offered<br />
or iniury offered to the dutch shipps that were in those parts<br />
or to any of them, or their Captaines or company, or any of them<br />
which hee knoweth for that hee was Purser of her and went<br />
the voyage in her from place to place.
To the third article hee saith that the premisses not withstanding<br />
the said shipp the ''Endimion'' in her voyage from England for<br />
Bantam comming in the moneth of August of the said yeere 1656<br />
into the Streight of Sunda, met with a single shipp appertaining<br />
to the dutch, which sailed along with the ''Endimion'' till shee came<br />
neere Pulla[?p]anjam, where fowre dutch vessells more were riding<br />
which seeing her, alsoe weighed and comming neare her, told her<br />
Captaine that hee must speake with their Admirall, who hee saitth<br />
was rideing to the Eastward of Pullapanjam amongest his<br />
fleete of eight saile more of shipps and many small sloopes<br />
and pro[XX]s, which hee did, and came to an anchor neere the Admirall<br />
and the next day the Admirall commanded her to anchor nearer to<br />
his shipp, which was alsoe obeyed, all which hee knoweth being present and<br />
hearing and seeing the premisses soe donne and commanded.
To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that the said Captain<br />
Couchman being indisposed, willed this deponent Purser of the said shipp<br />
to goe aboard the Admirall and knowe the reason of such commanding [?her]<br />
to and keeping them at an anchor, and this deponent accordingly goeing<br />
aboard, the said Admirall or Commander named dierick Scoutten,<br />
plainely told this deponent (after this deponents acquainting him with their<br />
designe of merchandizing imployment for the English east India Company, and that [?XXX]<br />
they were then bound and intended to goe into Bantam) that they should<br />
not goe into Bantam Roade, whereupon this deponent desired leave to [?XXXX]<br />
in their boate with a letter of advice of their arivall to the said English Compan[yes]<br />
agent there, offering that the same boate should in [?such] going come<br />
aboard him to be visited, but hee denied that alsoe, and told this deponent<br />
that they should neither goe in with their shipp nor send in their boate<br />
pretendingsend in their boate<br />
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