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then cheife Mate or her commander or any o … then cheife Mate or her commander or any of her<br />
company did not offer any affront iniurie or provocation to any<br />
dutch shipps that were then in those parts, or to any of the Commanders<br />
or Company of the same, nor as hee beleeveth did any of the<br />
said other English shipps, commanders or companies offer any<br />
injury or affront whatsoever to the dutch. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the third and fourth hee cannot depose saving what followeth.
To the fifth 6. 7 8 and 9th articles hee saith<br />
and deposeth that the shipp the ''Marigold''. (wherein this deponent<br />
was and whereof hee was masters cheife mate as aforesaid) having<br />
bin at the coast of Coromandel, and comming thence with goods for<br />
Bantam, wto shipps of the dutch fleete which lay under or neare Pullapanjam<br />
to looke out and speake with any shipp that passed came aboard<br />
her, and told her commander that hee must goe in with his<br />
said shipp to their Admirall who with the rest of the dutch fleete<br />
were riding neare Pullapanjam aforesaid neare Bantam, and<br />
before such their speaking with the ''Marigold'', each of the said<br />
dutch shipps as they were weighing to come<br />
towards her shott off a gun. And being soe commanded the<br />
said shipp the ''Marigold'' went accordingly, and came to an<br />
anchor neare the said Admirall or Generall called the Heer<br />
Lilly, by whom hee, with the said shipp was prohibited and not<br />
suffered to goe into Bantam roade but kept lying by the said Admirall, and this hee saith was in November 1656<br />
And while shee soe lay there the said shipp ''Endymion'' comming from<br />
Jambee for Bantam was alsoe there stayed by the dutch and<br />
forced to come to an anchor and not suffered to goe into Bantam roade.<br />
And saith that after the said shipp ''Marigold'' her having bin soe stayed<br />
by the said dutch fleete, shee leaving the ''Endimion'' there went<br />
for Battavia, to supplie her [?necessity] of victualling, and after shee<br />
had bin about a fortnight at Battavia, the ''Endymion'' arived<br />
there alsoe of this deponents sight and knowledge. And while<br />
the ''Marigold'' soe lay at or neare Battavia, the<br />
Scritterers of mr ffrederick Skinner (Agent of the said English<br />
company) who were there aboard, (being three or foure in number)<br />
were with all the writings, and disptaches that were in them<br />
fetched from aboard her by order of the dutch Governour, who<br />
sent a boate with his [?fisrall] and severall souldiers aboard her<br />
and the said [?fisrall] seized and carried them ashore to Battavia in the<br />
said boate. And being ashore, the sid Scritteres were (as this deponent<br />
was there informed) broken open by a Committee of dutch thereto<br />
appointed, and all the writings and dispatches therein perused and<br />
searched into by them by order of the said dutch Governour. And after<br />
they had bin soe ransacked and perused, hee saith the said Scritteres<br />
with all their locks broken up were retourned aboard the ''Marigold'', whose<br />
companie refusing to meddle with the receipt thereof, the dutch that<br />
brought them left them and went their wayes. And further saith<br />
that while the ''Marigold'' and ''Endymion'' as aforesaid were under<br />
the REstraint of the dutch fleete at Pulayanjam the said frederick Skinner the<br />
English frederick Skinner the<br />
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