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goe into Bantam Roade, nor not soe much as … goe into Bantam Roade, nor not soe much as the shipps boate to goe<br />
off to advise the English companies agent if the said shipps arivall,
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that the said dutch generall<br />
and shipps kept the said shipp the ''Endymion'' in this condition and detention<br />
by the space of nine dayes, at the end whereof the said Captaine<br />
Couchman and company seeing noe hopes that the dutch would alter their [?XXXXX]<br />
sett saile with their said shipp the ''Endymion'' for Jambee, at which port<br />
having procured what pepper was there to be had, they set saile back<br />
againe, and comming neere the foresaid place where the said dutch fleete<br />
was lying, there came againe three saile of them out to the ''Endymion''<br />
whose Captaine and company hoped then to have gonne freely<br />
into Bantam and have compleated their tonnage and soe to have sailed<br />
for England, it being now about foure monethes since her departure<br />
from the dutch to goe for Jambee, and the said dutch shipps that<br />
soe came out commanded and constrained the said shipp the ''Endymion''<br />
to come againe to an anchor by their Generall, and commanded<br />
this deponent who was then commander of the ''Endymion'' (the<br />
said Captaine Couchman being then deceased) to come aboard and this deponent going<br />
aboard the then Generall of the dutch, was by him strictly prohibited<br />
and forbidden to goe into the Roade of Bantam with his<br />
said shipp, only upon this deponents earnest intreatie the said<br />
Generall (as if hee therein did the English a greate favour) suffered<br />
them to send their boate ashore to give notice to the English Agent<br />
of their being there, And this second stay an detention of the said<br />
shipp the ''Endymion'' hee saith was when the said shipp was<br />
come within foure or five leagues of Bantam, and soe farr hee<br />
saith they were constrained to send their boate to goe ashore to advise<br />
the said English Agent as aforesaid, And about the same distance<br />
from Bantam the said [?former] stay and detention of the ''Endymion''<br />
was made, all which hee knoweth being as aforesaid first mate<br />
and afterwards commander of the said shipp the ''Endymion''.
To the sixth and 7th articles hee saith that the ''Endymions'' boate having bin<br />
soe ashore retourned with the said English Agent<br />
who accompanied with this deponent went aboard the said dutch<br />
Generall, to whom hee addressed himselfe and intreated him to<br />
permit the said shipp to come into Bantam roade to receive in<br />
such goods as were there in a readines for her, but the said Generall<br />
answered that hee durst not give her leave to goe into the said Roade<br />
without expresse order therein first had from Batavia, or<br />
in words to the same effect, whereupon the said Agent retourned ashore<br />
and about a fortnight after hee retourned againe aboard the ''Endymion''<br />
and acquainted this deponent and other the officers, that hee and the<br />
Counsellers, that hee and the<br />
Counsell +
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