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HCA 13/72 f.497r Annotate
First transcribed 23 September 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 497  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 23/09/2013  +
Transcription pretending for their deniall, that hee hadpretending for their deniall, that hee had order not to suffer any shipps or boates<br /> to goe in or out for that (as hee said) the dutch had warr with the king of<br /> Bantam. To the fifth article hee saith that the said Commander or Admirall and company<br /> kept the said shipp the ''Endimion'' under that restraint and in that condition for the<br /> space of nine dayes, in which space although this deponent and Captaine Couchmann<br /> going severall times aboard, and expostulating about such their detention, and<br /> insisting for libertie to goe into Bantam, the said Admirall still persisted in<br /> his deniall and told them still that they should not goe in, for hee had order to the contrary,<br /> and because they were earnest for leave to goe in, one dutch Captaine that was<br /> present told them that if they (meaning the Captaine and companie of the ''Endimion'')<br /> were stronger than they (speaking of the dutch that were there) they should or<br /> might goe in, otherwise they should not, Whereupon after the said space<br /> of nine dayes restraint, the said Captaine and companie of the ''Endimion''<br /> being soe kept out of Bantam and seeing noe hopes of getting in went<br /> with their said shipp for Jambee, Where heaving procured what pepper<br /> they could, they set saile back againe for Bantam, [XXXX] where unto they arived about<br /> three monethes after such their first departure thence which was on the<br /> eighteenth of August 1656, hoping then that they should not meete with any<br /> obstacle, but might goe freely into Bantam roade, there to compleate their<br /> tonnage, and soe to saile for England. But there they found severall saile<br /> of dutch shipps riding, two of which upon sight of the ''Endimion'' weighed<br /> where shee was found to come againe for an anchor, and then this deponent<br /> went aboard the commander of them in cheife named Commander John<br /> Petersson Lelly in the ''Erasmus'', to know wherefore they were yet againe<br /> commanded to an anchor, and stopt, and whether they might yet goe into<br /> Bantam, and be[XXXXX] him that they might goe in, telling him what prejudice<br /> the East India Company of England had alreadie and were like further<br /> to suffer by such their prohibition, whereupon with much adoe and as<br /> if hee had donne the English a greate favour, hee permitted them to send<br /> in their boate to give notice to the English agent of their being there, but<br /> would by noe meanes permit the shipp to goe in, nor suffer the boate to<br /> carry or bring ought but advise, to which purpose they searched her going<br /> and comming. To the sixth hee saith that having received the sayd advise, the English Agent came<br /> aboard the said Commander of the dutch fleete in cheif, and in this<br /> deponents presence and hearing (who went aboard with him) [?besought]<br /> and was very earnest with the said Commander or Admirall for leave<br /> for the said shipp to come into banta, roade to receive such goods as were<br /> there in readinesse for her, but his answer was that hee durst not give<br /> leave without expresse order from Batavia, Whereupon the said agent<br /> and Counsell sent letters to Battavia to the Generall of the dutch<br /> to get order thence for her going in, But (as this deponent heard the Agent<br /> say the said Generall and Counsell at Battavia sent answer that<br /> they would not permit any shipp or shipps whatsoever to goe in, or<br /> any going to and fro betwixt the shipps and shoare in any manner<br /> Whatsoever, or to the same effect. To the seaventh hee saith that having received the said answer, the said<br /> English Agent (being Agent Skinner) came aboard the ''Endimion''<br /> and [XXXXX]d the Captaine and companie to weigh and saile for<br /> Battavia, for that hee would see what hee could doe<br /> (as hee said) in person about getting leave for the said shipp to goe in,<br /> and comming there, hee went severall times to the Castle<br /> to make addresses to the Generall for leave, but at length retourned<br /> aboard and declared that hee had laboured in vaine and that notwithstanding<br /> all his arguments and importunitie for leave, the Generall had<br /> flatlyleave, the Generall had<br /> flatly  +
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