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To the seaventh hee saith that the said ma … To the seaventh hee saith that the said master and company being by the dutch soe<br />
frustrated of all her hopes of carrying the ''Olive branch'' into Bantam<br />
they went with her to a small Iland on the coast of<br />
Sumatra called Pullay[?mudi], being an extreame hot and unhealthy<br />
place where the master and diverse others of the said ships company<br />
died, and there the said ship remained about eleaven weekes<br />
and tooke in such lading as shee could have privately brought from<br />
Bantam in boates by night, which hee knoweth, being<br />
then become master of her upon such the said Bramptons death. And<br />
further hee deposeth not.
To the eighth hee saith that be meanes of the said ship the ''Olive''<br />
''branch'' her soe long tarrying there for her lading (occasioned by the<br />
dutch as aforesaid) shee lost her Montsoones (sic), (being<br />
a constant winde serving for such a space of time to bring shipps<br />
thense for theise parts, and constantly for another space (after<br />
that is over) blowing the contrary way) and by meanes thereof<br />
was forced to put into the Mauritius to winter, the time being<br />
past for her coming for England, which hee knoweth being then<br />
master of her.
To the nineth hee saith that the said ship did not come to ligorne<br />
(although shee used all diligence) until the seaventeenth<br />
(old stile) of January 1657, or thereabouts, whereas if<br />
shee had bin permitted in time to have gone into Bantam,<br />
shee might have dispatch taking in her lading there in a<br />
matter of fourteen or sixteen dayes (and soe agent Skinner<br />
assured them they might) and that in all probabilitie shee<br />
might and would have arrived at Ligorne in the moneth of July<br />
1657 namely six monethes or thereabouts sooner than shee did/<br />
all which delay and the damage thereof came and was occasioned<br />
by such detention and hinderance by the said dutch ships, which dutch<br />
ships were in the service and imployment of the<br />
East India company of the United Netherlands, and soe<br />
commonly accounted.
To the tenth hee saith the said ship the ''Olive branch'' was and<br />
is of the burthen of two hundred tonnes or thereabouts, and<br />
carried in her the said voyage eighteen guns and fourtie two<br />
men and boyes, and was worth [XXXX] to freight for the<br />
East Indias two hundred and fiftie pounds per moneth or<br />
thereabouts, which hee knoweth being a mariner of many<br />
yeares standing, and having bin master of her.
To the eleaventh hee saith that this deponent (then master) and<br />
company of the said ship using all diligence to further and<br />
advantage their voyage, after the winter was a little over speeded<br />
away from the Mauritius, and by reason of such their early<br />
coming away, met with extreame and violent stormes,<br />
betwixt the said Mauritius Iland and the Cape de bonne Esperance<br />
bythe Cape de bonne Esperance<br />
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