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Detention of his said shipp, which was acc … Detention of his said shipp, which was accordingly sent on<br />
board the said Dutch Commander and there duely interposed<br />
as it was notorious and publiquely then knowne and reposed<br />
in and on board the said shipp ''ffrederick'', but in regard that he<br />
this deponent did not signe or see the said Originall Protest, nor<br />
was present at the transactions concerning the same, hee saith hee<br />
cannot depose or declare whether the now produced writing [XipXXXX]<br />
a Copy of such Protest, be a true Copie thereof or not. And <br />
further to these Interrogatorie he saith he cannot answer.
To the 19th Interrogatorie hee saith, That upon the 20th day of<br />
the said moneth of August 1657, the said Captaine Stanton<br />
having formerly at sevall times declared publiquely to the said<br />
Dutch Commander his resolution soe he doe did waigh anchor,<br />
and having saluted the said Dutch fleet with the discharge<br />
of the first peece of Ordnance without sharpe did sett sayle from amongst them <br />
towards Bantam roade whereupon the said Dutch shipps <br />
waighed their anchors also, and pursued him, and the said Admirall after some discourse had <br />
then laid him on board, and so they continued fastned togeather<br />
for about an hower (as this deponent now remembreth ye <br />
time) in which time the said Captaine Stanton [?persisting] in his<br />
Course and resolution for Bantam roade, the said Dutch<br />
Admirall caused three peece of Ordnance laden with sharpe <br />
or bullet to be discharged thereby to affright and keepe the said<br />
Captaine and Companie from goeing into Bantam roade with the <br />
said shipp ''Frederick'', and in the interim or betweene the dischargeing of<br />
the said three peeces the said Admirall did use diverse threatening<br />
words to and against the said Captaine and Companie, more<br />
particularly, That is they did not come to an [?anchor] immediately<br />
they must expers his whole broad side of Ordnance to be poured<br />
into the said shipp the ''Frederick'' or to that ot the like effect<br />
whereupon the said Captaine Stanton replyed, that he was <br />
in their power, and they might doe what the pleased, but for his [pt] he<br />
might not and would not bring his said shipp ''ffrederick'' to an [?anchor]<br />
for that he was bound by [CharterXXie] to the performance of his <br />
intended Voyage for Bantam; or used epressions to that effect,<br />
And further continued in his submission to have his said shipp<br />
the ''ffrederick'' visited if the said Dutch Admirall and Commander<br />
soe pleased, and that they might take notice of all the [aXnes] powder and<br />
ammunition then on board the said shipp ''frederick'', and that if as<br />
his returne from Bantam they should find them diminished or <br />
gone, that then they might be proceeded against in such manner as<br />
[XustXre] and the articles of Peace concluded between England andles of Peace concluded between England and +
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