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The 23th of September 1659.

Examined upon the foresaid allegaccon

Touching the Mayflower)
aforesaid)

2

John Stannian2 of the citie of London gentleman, aged 26
yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the first second and ?rest of the articles of the said allegaccon hee saith and deposeth that hee very
well knoweth the shipp the Mayflower arlate whereof William Curtis was
commander, and that in XXXXX ffeburary or March last was a
twelve moneth the ?Governour and Company of English Marchants trading
to East India Imployed and XX XX the said shipp from this port of London
on a trading voyage to goe and ?saile to Achean on the coast of the Island
of Sumatra to lade pepper for the said companies account, w:ch
hee knoweth having seane the said Companies orders and dispatches tXXX XXXX
they XXXX. And further
saith that hee hath seane Letters sent from the said master and factors of the said shipp
imployed in India about the said shipps trade,
purporting them upon the said shipps arrival before Acheen they XXXX
XXXXXX and had from admittance and ?license from her 9 XXXXX of Acheen
to lade her there with pepper, and in the said lre was alsoe sent the
said QuachXXX license in writing with aXXXXXXX thereof
to XXXXX and manifest to the said company her said leave to lade
pepper there, and further perporting that having got the said leave the
said factors and agents of the Company fell to ?procuring of pepper there
for her lading, and had XXXX or XXXXXX lading of pepper thXXXXX XXXX to be
laded aboard her for the said Companies use and account, containing fiftie
foure baggs of pepper w:ch weighed 3896 pounds net English weight
and then there lay there three dutch shipps belonging to the dutch
East India company whereof Balthazar ?Bert was commander and
that the said boate with the said pepper therein was by the ?men and
order of the said Balthazar Barts seized and taken away
from the Mayflowers ?helm and carried aboard the XXXXordia and
of the said dutch shipps, and that thXXX being donne, the dutch tooke ?all
the pepper and turned off the Mayflowers long boat aXXXXXX,
and would not suffer her to receive any more pepper or other goods from EXXXX but
wholly prohibited and ?dysppointed her therein, and he XXXX XXXXX the
voyage, to the greate dammage of the said English companye, and saith
that the said Captain Curtis XXXXXX said ?first XXXX and
seizure of her pepper were aboard the said XXX XXX, Balthazar Bart (as
the said XXXX XXXXX) and?expostulated the matter with him and
demanded the pepper XXXXX, but was denied and sent away without
any XXXXX, and that XXXXX hee and William Smith and John
?Shedd two of the companies factors made a protest against the XXXXX action
of the dutch and XXXX XXX XXX XX thereof to London under a ?notaries
hand and with their names thereto, w:ch XXXX this depot
hath