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To the 3d hee saith that the said ship ''B … To the 3d hee saith that the said ship ''Bantam ffrigat'' set<br />
saile from this port with the said Captaine Taylors and Mr<br />
Newman on board her, and safely arrived in Indra Ponza<br />
Road upon the Coast of Sumatra in or about the moneth<br />
of August 1657: which hee knoweth for that hee sailed<br />
thither in her. And further cannot Answer./.
To the 4th 5th 6th and 7th hee saith that after the arrivall of the said ship the<br />
''Bantam ffrigot'' at Indra Ponza aforesaid the said Mr<br />
Newman, and one Francis Griffith the then Purser<br />
of the said ship (who is since deceased) did in the<br />
monethes of September and October 1657. goe on<br />
shore to the Port of Indra Ponza, to buy and provide<br />
Pepper, and did then and there buy and Provide a great<br />
Quantity of Pepper, which (with some other that the said<br />
Newman, and Griffith could then and there easily have<br />
Provided had they not bin hindered as hereafter is declared)<br />
would have fully laden the said ship ''Bantam ffrigot''<br />
and the said Pepper, was to have bin transported<br />
and Carried in the said ''Bantam ffrigot'' to Ligorne<br />
in Italy, for the account of the said Sir John Dethick<br />
and therest of the Merchants aforesayd: And saith<br />
that some of the said Pepper which was Provided and<br />
that some of the said Pepper which was Provided and<br />
bought by the said Newman, and Griffith was in<br />
the said moneth of September and October 1657:<br />
laden on board the said ship, and while the said Newman and Griffith were sending the rest of the said<br />
Pepper on board the said ship which they had Provided, and<br />
Whilest they were Providing others, The arlate<br />
ship the ''Turtle Dove'', whereof the arlate Antonins<br />
Van Voorst was Comander, and alsoe three other small<br />
vessells or pinnaces, in her Company, which were all of them as well as the ''Turtle Dove'' in<br />
the Imediate service of the Dutch East India Company<br />
came and anchored Round about her, namely one<br />
of the Pinnaces a head, and another a sterne of the ''Bantam''<br />
''ffrigot'', and the other Pinnace on the one side of her, and<br />
the ''Turtle Dove'' (which was the Admirall) on the other side<br />
and soe soone as ever they were anchored about the<br />
''Bantam ffrigot'' as aforesaid, there came a Dutch Merchant<br />
(from aboard the ''Turtle Dove'') on board the ''Bantam''<br />
''ffrigot'', accompanied with two others belonging to the ''Turtle''<br />
''Dove'', and they upon their Comming on board the ''Bantam'', desired to<br />
speake with the Captaine, and the said Captaine Taylor being<br />
then on the Deck of the ''Bantam'', the said Dutch Merchant<br />
and alsoe the other two, that came with him told the said Taylor<br />
(in the presence of this deponent and severall of the ships Company) that<br />
(they the ships Company) that<br />
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