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to have bin Transported in the said ship t … to have bin Transported in the said ship to Leghorne, for the<br />
account of the said Sir John Dethick Knight, and the rest of the<br />
owners aforesaid who are as aforesaid all native subjects of this<br />
Commonwealth And further hee Cannot depose./.
To the 5th 6th and 7th hee saith that whilest the Company of the said ship<br />
was taking in some of the said Pepper, which was as aforesaid<br />
Provided by the said Mr Newman and Mr Griffiths, and<br />
Whilest they were providing other pepper to lade the said ship<br />
the arlate ship the ''Turtle Dove'', whereof one Captaine Antonis<br />
Van Voorst was Comander, and three other small ships<br />
or Vessells in her Company, came and anchored round<br />
about the ''Bantam ffrigot'', and presently after their coming<br />
soe to anchor, there came three Dutch men from the said ship<br />
the ''Turtle Dove'' (which was the Admirall) on board the ''Bantam''<br />
who upon their Coming, told the said Taylor that<br />
hee must come on board their Comadore meaning the<br />
''Turtle Dove'', whereupon the said Taylor said that hee could not<br />
leave his ship. for that hee was ordered by his Imployers<br />
to keepe in Possession of his said ship, and looke to her,<br />
And they (hee saith) the said three Dutchmen ordered<br />
the said Taylor to send for the Merchant of his ship (who was the[?n GUTTER]<br />
on shore) to come on board the ''Bantam'', which the said Taylor<br />
accordingly did, and the said Newman being come on<br />
board the ''bantam'', The said Dutchmen or one of them<br />
told the said Mr Newman, and Mr Taylor in the presence<br />
of this deponent and his precontests Caleb kime and, Lewes<br />
Waters, and severall others of the Bantams Company<br />
That the foure ships meaneing the ''Turtle Dove'', and<br />
the other three small ships) were imployed by the Dutch<br />
East India Company to hinder all English<br />
from Tradeing in those parts, and said that they were sent<br />
aboard the ''Bantam'' by their Comadore, (meaneing<br />
Comadore or Admirall Van Voorst to forbid them, and<br />
prohibite them from trading there, for if they did hee<br />
would seize the ''Bantam'' and her Lading, and make them<br />
Prize or to that effect, and Comanded the said Newman<br />
on board the Admirall, who accordingly went, but what discourse<br />
passed betweene the said Mr Newman, and the said Comadore<br />
on board the said Dutch Admirall hee knoweth not, But saith<br />
that when the said Newman came againe on board the ''Bantam''<br />
hee told the said Taylor openly in the hearing of this Deponent<br />
and many others of the ''Bantams'' Company, That they<br />
must not trade there any Longer, for if they did the said<br />
Van Voorst would by Vertue of orders or Comission from the<br />
(Dutchs or Comission from the<br />
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