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Voorst Comanded and Compelled the said shi … Voorst Comanded and Compelled the said ship the ''Bantam''<br />
''ffrigot'' to weigh Anchor, and the said Van Voorst<br />
Caried the saud ship to Battavia, and further cannot<br />
depose saving as aforesaid./.
To the 12th hee cannot depose/.
To the 13th hee Cannot depose saving the said ''Bantam''<br />
''ffrigott'' lay at Battavia under Comand of the<br />
said Comander Van Voorst, and severall other<br />
of the shi[[s belonging to the foresaid dutch East<br />
India Company./.
To the 14th and 15th hee saith that after the arrivall of the said<br />
ship the ''Bantam ffrigot'' at Battavia, the said Mr Newman<br />
and Captaine Taylor were sent for to appeare before<br />
John Ma?etsuijker the then Generall of the Dutch<br />
East India Company at Battavia to appeare before<br />
him, which the said Mr Newman and Captaine Taylor<br />
accordingly did, severall times, but what words passed<br />
betweene them hee knoweth not. And further saith<br />
there were two or three waiters and their slaves<br />
put on board the said ship by the order of the said<br />
Generall, to see that noe goods should bee put on board her which Continually kept on board her<br />
during her stay there, And saith that the said Newman<br />
was not permitted to take any goods on board the said<br />
ship at Battavia which hee knoweth for that hee was and<br />
Continued on board the said shipp, allXX of the time<br />
shee lay there, And further cannot depose./
To the 16th hee cannot depose./.
To the .17th hee saith that the said ''Bantam ffrigot'' was<br />
Detained and hindered by the said Generall of Battavia, and the<br />
ships in the service of the said Dutch East India Company<br />
from the Eleaventh of October 1657: or thereabouts (being<br />
the day (as hee remembreth that the said Admiralls ship, and<br />
the said three Pinnaces anchored about her as aforesaid)<br />
Untill about the tenth day of December 1657 and then<br />
hee saith that the said Generall of Battavia forced her<br />
to depart from Battavia and out of the East Indias, without<br />
any more or other Lading than the foresaid Pepper which<br />
was taken on board the said ship the ''Bantam'' before the said Dutch<br />
Vessells came and anchored about her as aforesaid, Which said<br />
Pepper did not (of this deponents knowledge) amount Unto<br />
two third parts of the said ships lading, And further<br />
cannot depose:/:
To the 18th hee saith that the said ship was as aforesaid [XXX]<br />
to Depart from the East Indias with only the foresaid Pepper on board<br />
her and bring the same to Europe, And saith that had not the said<br />
ship bin hindred as aforesaid, shee might and would have taken [?aboard]<br />
(?heruld have taken [?aboard]<br />
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