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aboard the said Admirall, and (as hee said … aboard the said Admirall, and (as hee said upon his second retourne) desired<br />
an answer in writing thereunto, but that the said Admirall would not give him<br />
any answer in writing, ?soe persisted in such his hindering them from going<br />
in. The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesaid, And saith<br />
the same happened in or about January last was t?wo yeares.
To the nineth article hee saith that the said shipp ''Jonathan'' being<br />
hindered and forcibly detained by the dutch from going into Bantam, was<br />
necessitated to goe and did goe to and dispose the said goods (soe designed and which<br />
were to have bin delivered at Bantam) at other places (for which they were<br />
neither proper nor intended) at lower rates and to greate losse in respect<br />
of what they would have produced at Bantam, to the greate preiudice and<br />
damage of the said Imployers. ??yeelding ?a ?reason as aforesaid
To the tenth article hee saith and deposeth that the said hinderance and<br />
prevention by the dutch of the ''Jonathan'' going in to Bantam, and (by<br />
means thereof) her not delivering then the goods there to be delivered as<br />
aforesaid, nor taking in other goods there which shee intended to have<br />
done, and by her vending them upon that occasion elsewhere at lower<br />
rates and losse as aforesaid, and other dammage and disappointment<br />
arising from and by meanes of the said prohibition, the said producents<br />
have suffered losse and dammage to the summe of six thousand pounds<br />
sterling or thereabouts in his this deponents estimation. And further hee<br />
deposeth not.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
Robt Graves [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 21th of ffebruary 1658
Lord Protector against the ''Hope''.)<br />
aforesaid.)
'''5'''
'''Peter Aylward''' of London Merchant, aged 40 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne and examined as aforesaid
To the first second and third Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that in or about June<br />
last was a twelve moneth Mr John Page one of the Merchants concerned in<br />
this busines, having with his associates a designe in hand to send a shipp from<br />
Amsterdam for the West Indies to trade for their account upon the coasts of<br />
the Spaniards, and understanding that this deponent understood both the Spanish<br />
and dutch tongues (besides English) and could speake them, and alsoe<br />
understood the busines of traffique and commerce as a marchant treated and<br />
agreed with this deponent to goe the said voyage for five pounds per<br />
moneth wages and some libertie for some goods for his owne account, wherein hee<br />
this deponent was to give assistance to John Lopes his precontest (who was alsoe then ?hXXX)<br />
and being soe hired this deponent was sent hence in a dutch shipp called the<br />
''Mackerell'' bound for Amsterdam and concerned with him in the said shipp serges,<br />
perpetuanas, hatts, and many other particulars of goods which were here provided by the<br />
said Mr Page and Mr ffernandez, Mr Robles, Mr Jenkin and Mr Painter<br />
Merchants of this citie, to be at Amsterdam put aboard such a shipp<br />
as could be provided for that service and voyage. And comming to Amsterdam<br />
the shipp the ''Hope'' interrogate was by order of their said Imployers and by<br />
their partners at Amsterdam John Tilly and John Ch?anterwell bought<br />
of danes (as hee tooke them to be) who said shee was sent from denmarke<br />
expresslly to be sold at Amsterdam about which buying this deponent together<br />
with the said John Lopez and Patrick Betts (who were alsoe come over from<br />
England on the same designe) were employed, and saith shee cost foure<br />
thousand foure hundred gilders or thereabouts. And saith that<br />
thehereabouts. And saith that<br />
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