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then they understanding that this deponent … then they understanding that this deponent as the cheife<br />
merchant upon the said shipp they commanded and tooke him and<br />
alsoe the cheife mate aboard them, where this deponent was<br />
told that the commander of the said shipp that soe shott at the<br />
''Baniamin'' (and aboard which they were as aforesaid carried) was<br />
named de[?r]ick Swart, and his said shipp the ''Mars'' and was a<br />
dutch shipp belonging to the Netherland East India Company<br />
and that the name of the said other shipp (which was alsoe come<br />
up) was the ''[X]ierick Sea'', and was alsoe a dutch shipp<br />
belonging to the said Company of the Netherlands,<br />
and this to his best remembrance happened in the moneth of<br />
November 1656, the day hee doth not remember. And saith<br />
that being soe aboard the said derrick Sw[?e?e]rt; and some words<br />
passing betwixt them about that hostile action, the said<br />
Swart in passion declared and said (as this deponent understood<br />
his broken speech betweene dutch and English) that had his grapnell<br />
?held, hee would (as this deponent remembreth his words)<br />
have cut their throats, speaking of the ''Benaimins'' company.<br />
And saith that this deponent requested him to let him goe aboard
[?XXX] shipp which hee understood<br />
[?XX] in the port of Goa, and which then was<br />
[?XX] to be the<br />
[?XX] [XXX] that<br />
[?XX] frigot<br />
[?XX]
in the imployment of the same persons that were<br />
Imployers of the ''Beniamin'') to advise her of their being [?XXXX]<br />
at [XXX] a boate aboard herm, but hee denied it saying hee<br />
could not give leave till the Admirall came, and when the<br />
Admirall came this deponent made the same request to him to the<br />
same purpose, but hee denied, and would not suffer this deponent<br />
to goe or [?send] in, and therefore after five dayes space that<br />
the ''Baniamin'' had bin under the said restraint or seizure, shee was<br />
faine to depart for Surat, without speaking with the<br />
said frigot, which had advise to communicate to this deponent tending<br />
much to the advantage of the said Imployers/ And saith that<br />
both before and when the said dutch shipps came up, the ''Banjamin''<br />
had the English colours ab[?r]oad, plaine to be seene. And further<br />
hee deposeth not, saving the said two dutch shipps were men of warr.
To the nineteenth hee saith hee conceiveth the owners of the said<br />
shipp by the said shooting and tearing the hull and rigging of the ''Baniamin''<br />
have suffered dammage to the summe of one hundred pounds sterling,<br />
and the Imployers to have suffered very greate dammage by the<br />
premisses, in having their voyage disappointed, the retourne of the<br />
said shipp delayed their market lost, their goods lost by hinder<br />
ance of imployment of their stock and otherwise to the summe<br />
of betwixt five and six thousand pounds sterling in this<br />
deponents estimation. And further cannot depose.
R[ichard XXXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]ose.
R[ichard XXXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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