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To the second article hee deposeth and sai … To the second article hee deposeth and saith that in or about September 165[?7 GUTTER]<br />
the said mr hopkins with the help of this deponent and Christofer Cooper [?XX GUTTER]<br />
Jes[?pnapatan] in the Iland of Ceilon hire and take for freight<br />
for the use of the said Blake, Billedge and company a certaine vessell<br />
there called a [?Champan] of the burthen of sixtie tonnes or thereabouts<br />
and that in and aboard the said shipp the ''Unitie'' and the said [?Champan]<br />
the said mr Billedge and alsoe the said mr Blake for the accompt of<br />
themselves and of the said mr hopkins and company, by their factors or<br />
agents (to whom this deponent was assistant) did at or near Bengal<br />
hugle and Ballasor in the parts of East India lade and put all and<br />
singular the goods wares and merchandizes mentioned and expressed in the<br />
said schedule or the most part thereof, to be carried and transported in the said two vessells for<br />
[?Jeffnapatan] aforesaid, which hee knoweth being present and<br />
assisting at the said lading of the said goods, which happened in or about<br />
November 1657. And after such lading aboard of the said goods, the<br />
said two vessells under command of his precontest William Jourdan, went<br />
to and arived at Jefnapatan in safetie with the said goofs in or about<br />
January 1657, and were in the factory of Jefnapatan dischardged<br />
and unladed all (saving certaine bales of salt Peter and some other<br />
fardles) out of the said two vessells the ''Unitie'' and Champan, for the<br />
use and account of them the said Blake, Billedge hopkins and company<br />
which hee knoweth for that hee was present and saw the same, being<br />
factor as aforesaid.
To the third article hee saith and deposeth That whilest the said two<br />
vessells were and remained the said time at Jasnapatam and whilest<br />
the captains of the said vessells, namely the said [?Jourdan] and company<br />
this deponent and others remained there, newes came thether that [?a GUTTER]<br />
fleet of dutch shipps was at [?Tutticurree], and had there taken [?XX GUTTER]<br />
Portugal frigots, and that they were afterwards come to [?Maner ?Iland GUTTER]<br />
and had taken in that Iland, and saith that in or about the end<br />
of ffebruary 1757 (English stile) there came from [?Mannar] in [?XX GUTTER]<br />
small vessells a dutch Armie to Jesnapatam, and beseiged it, and [?that GUTTER]<br />
the fleete that brought the said armie thether was under command of<br />
General Richloof and one John [?fflaske] and vander[?lieu] or some of them who hee saith were<br />
and acknowledged themselves to be in the service and imployment<br />
of the dutch Easr India Company, subiects of the lords States of the<br />
United Netherlands, and this hee saith was and is true and notorious<br />
and this examinate yeeldeth reasons as aforesaid of his knowledge of the<br />
premisses.
To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that amongest other [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
the proceedings and dealings of the said dutch ffleet in their Armie [?XX GUTTER]<br />
their comming on towards and neer Jesnapatnam, it was comonly [?XXXX] with<br />
much affliction to the Christians in those parts, that the dutch had in the [?said GUTTER]<br />
Armie many Blacks [?Chengolas] [?Bandaneses], Amboineses and Javaneses, and<br />
that they had proposed a reward unto them of a [?Purdo] (valewing a<br />
peece of eight or thereabouts) per head for every Whitehead that they should<br />
bring in of persons by them slaine, Whereupon the said Mr hopkins and<br />
this deponent and the said Captaine Jourdan and company were [?for ?the GUTTER]<br />
safeguard of their lives constrained to shift for themselves and flie<br />
in which flight the said Mr Hopkins and this deponent betooke themselves [?XX GUTTER]<br />
[?XX GUTTER]lves [?XX GUTTER]<br />
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