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Counsell at Bantam had written and sent le … Counsell at Bantam had written and sent letters to the dutch Governour<br />
at Batavia to obtaine leave for the said shipp to come into the said<br />
roade of bantam to the effect aforesaid, and that they had receaved<br />
an answer, purporting a deniall to gra[?nn]t such their request,<br />
whereupon the said Agent hoping that his presence might effect<br />
[?something] suitable to their desires, desired the shipp to be fitted out<br />
to saile to Batavia, which was accordingly donne, and {XXX} that<br />
said Agent and Counsell went to Batavia in the said shipp the<br />
''Endymion'', and there went ashore to the dutch Governour, ans staid there<br />
ashore about five dayes space solliciting and suing (as they reported<br />
when they came back) to the said Generall for leave as aforesaid,<br />
but all in vaine, for hee was soe farr from condescending to such<br />
their reasonable request (as they repeated) that hee told them that<br />
they should neither goe in with their shipp nor soe much as send in<br />
their boate to Bantam, whereupon the said agent sent word a[?board GUTTER]<br />
to this deponent, to acquaint him that there was nothing to be done<br />
and therefore hee this deponent and company must [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
themselves and shipp for a homeward voyage, upon which this deponent<br />
wrote back to the Agent that they could not soe doe through want<br />
of victualls, whereupon the Agent (as hee afterwards related when<br />
hee came aboard) applied himselfe againe to the Generall an<br />
acquainted him with such their want, and that with much adoe<br />
the said dutch Generall had condescended that the ''Endymion''<br />
should have five dayes time to provide her selfe with water<br />
and [?ryse], and soe to be gonne, and that after that space they should<br />
have noe leave to goe or send their boate ashore, and soe with<br />
a very small proportion of victualls (for there was none<br />
to be gotten by them at Battavia) the said shipp ''Endymion'' was<br />
forced to retourne for England with very much dead freight,<br />
to the greate dihonour (the premisses considered) of the English<br />
nation, the hazard of the voyage, and greate dammage of the said<br />
English East India company, in being forced to leave their goods behinde, which are<br />
like to lie there and perish, The premisses hee deposeth being then<br />
(as aforesaid) commander of the said shipp the ''Endymion''.
To the 8th hee saith that while the said shipp ''Endymion'' soe [?lay GUTTER]<br />
the first time under the detention of the dutch, upon such her<br />
first arrivall, Captaine Couchman sent out his boate with<br />
some of his company to goe to a little adjacent [XXXXXX GUTTER]<br />
Iland to cut a little wood, but the dutch to magnifie their [?power GUTTER]<br />
and show their greate Imperiousnes, fired a gun at the said boate,<br />
and forced the boate aboard their shipp, where the English were<br />
constrained to aske them leave soe to goe and fetch a little wood and<br />
for their [XXXXXXXXX] firing, otherwise they must have retourned<br />
with out any wood for such their use, all which hee knoweth because<br />
hee saw the same soe donne.
Tot;br />
hee saw the same soe donne.
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