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HCA 13/72 f.497v Annotate
First transcribed 23 September 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 497  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 23/09/2013  +
Transcription flatly denied, and would not permit the ''flatly denied, and would not permit the ''Endimion'' to goe in. By<br /> meanes of which stopping of her and deniall by the dutch of her going in to<br /> take in such goods as were there provided for her, shee was forced to<br /> retourne for England with considerable quantitie of dead freight, to the<br /> greate dammage of the said English company (besides the dishonour<br /> redounding by the predeposed to the English nation) being forced to have their goods left behinde,<br /> which were probable to lie there and perish or be lost, and greate dis[?XXXX]<br /> of the voyage, The premisses hee deposeth being Purser<br /> aforesaid of the ''Endimion'' and going from place to place in her, and sawe<br /> the said premisses soe donne. And further hee doth not depose. Repeated before doctor Godolphin. <u>Thomas Bowdles</u> [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ******************************** The twentieth of August 1658, Examined upon the foresaid allegation. '''10''' '''Richard Erdine''' of the parish of Saint Mary Matsellon<br /> alias White Chappell neare London. Merchant<br /> aged 26 yeares or there abouts sworne and examined. To the seaventeenth and eighteenth articles hee saith and<br /> deposeth that hee well knoweth the shipp the ''Baniamin''<br /> arlate and was Merchant or Supra cargo of her the voyage<br /> in question, in behalfe of her imployers, and thereby well knoweth<br /> that the said shipp the said voyage sailing from fort Saint George<br /> on the coast of Cormandel for Surat (whereunto shee was bound<br /> and comming neere the port of Goa, her Captaine and<br /> this deponent espied two shipps which after wards made saile towards her<br /> and they having espied a white Ensigne upon one of them<br /> and having before heard some report that there were ffrench<br /> men of warr come into the parts of India, [gave]<br /> them cause to suspect them to be such, but comming neare to<br /> her, they perceived them to have the Holland colours aboard<br /> and saith that at a distance they shott from the Headmost of<br /> the said two shipps, three guns, two thereof thwart her fore[?XXX]<br /> and the other over her, and although the said shipp ''Benjamin''<br /> did slack her sailes asmuch as conveniently shee (in this deponents<br /> iudgement) could, yet the said head most shipp comming very neere<br /> powred a broad side, or the greatest part of a<br /> broadside into her and shott severall small shotts, and<br /> that by such shooting and powring in the said greate guns, hee<br /> saith there were seaven or eight of the ''Baniamins'' men<br /> wounded, and her hull passed through with<br /> six or seaven shott, whereby the same with her tackle and<br /> rigging were torne and ?burnt, and then they of the said shipp that soe [?shott] sent there boate<br /> aboard and carried the said commander of the ''Baniamin''<br /> (Arnold Browne by name) aboard the said dutch shipp and<br /> th[?en]e said dutch shipp and<br /> th[?en]  +
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