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Accompt of the said Frieghters, And saith … Accompt of the said Frieghters, And saith that the said ffreighters and<br />
the Owners of the said ship, did put and Constitute the said Isaac Taylor<br />
Master And Comander of the said ship to goe the said Voyage, and the<br />
said ffreighters did appoint and Constitute this deponent to goe Merchant<br />
or Supra Cargo of the said ship the said Voyage, Which they Accordingly<br />
did. And saith that at or about the time that the said ship the ''Bantam ffrigot''<br />
was the said Voyage in the East Indias the arlate Sir John Dethick<br />
Knight, and the Arlate Edward Bolle, alsoe became ?Considearable freighters<br />
of the said ship, as this Deponent (at his coming to Legorne after<br />
his being in the East Indias the said Voyage) was Credibly Informed<br />
by a Letter sent thither, to this deponent and the said Captaine Taylor, from<br />
the foresaid John Dethick John Bankes Edward Bolle Richard fford, and other the ffreighters of<br />
the said ship, and soe hee saith hee hath bin Certainly Informed<br />
since his Coming to this City of London, And saith hee knoweth<br />
not whether the said Sir John Dethick and the said Edward Bolle were<br />
any part freighter of the said ship when she went first out on the said<br />
Voyage, And further Cannot depose saving all the said Owners and<br />
Freighters of the said ship are Englishmen, and subjects of this<br />
Comonwealth as hee verily beleeveth:/:
To the 3d hee saith that the said ship the ''Bantam ffrigot'' being soe set out<br />
upon the Account aforesaid, the said Isaac Taylor the Master of the said<br />
ship, and Company of Marriners and this deponent the Supra Cargoe of her, arrived in and with the same<br />
ship in the Roade of Indra Ponza in the Island of Sumatra, in the East<br />
Indias on the seaventh of August 1657 English stile which hee knoweth for that<br />
hee went thether in her in the quality aforesaid, And further hee<br />
Cannot depose./.
To the 4th hee saith that<br />
Indra Ponza Roade is and ought to be<br />
a place free for the English to trade in ever which place the Queene of Achine<br />
(whom this deponent well knoweth having lived with her about five yeeres)<br />
was and is the supreame Governournesse; who did about three yeeres<br />
since there: and at all other of her Dominions proclaime ffree<br />
Trade to the English Nation; And saith hee hath a Copy of the<br />
said Proclamation now in his Custody. And saith that after the<br />
arrivall of the said Ship in the said Road this deponent and one<br />
ffrancis Griffith (who is since deceased) went ashore to Indra<br />
Ponza to buy and provide Pepper to lade the said ship, and did<br />
there buy and provide enough Pepper fully to Lade the said ship, and was<br />
all to have bin there put on board her. and to be Carried and<br />
Transported in her to Leghorne for the Account of the said ffrancis<br />
who hee knoweth for the Reasons aforesaid, And further deposeth not.
To the 5th articles of the said Allegation, hee saith that in the monethes<br />
of September, and October 1657, this Deponent upon the Account aforesaid<br />
did Lade aboard the said ship the ''Bantam'', shee then Lying in the Roade<br />
of Indra Ponza aforesaid six hundred seaventy two Bahares of Pepper<br />
(Andnty two Bahares of Pepper<br />
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