exclude the English totally from the said, and not to beleaguer or take the said Town of Bantam, as this Deponent is in judgement and [?cousneure] fully convinced by all the passages translations and circumstances of their said pretended siege, that this Deponent did or could observe during his abode in those parts in the quality aforesaid. And further hee saith he cannot Depose to the [?fXXXX] To the 10th Interrogarie hee saithe, That he hath sevrall times seene and beene in the said Citie of Bantam, and well knoweth That it is of a very large [?Circuit], strong and very populated to the number of above twenty thousand fighting men at [?home], Veryly beleeveth, and hath observved them to be men of a [?arXiXe] and valiant condition, well ordered and [exXerred] in armes, and generally to be so accompted, and that the said Citie is extraordinarily well fortified especially towards the sea with strong walls, and very faire Ordinance in great number and very dextrous people to manage them. And further to this interrogarie he answereth not./ To the 11th Interrogarie hee saith, That the said Dutch shipps [?who] pretended to beleaguer Bantam at aforesaid were in number sometimes five, sometimes six, as this Deponent saw and observed, and that their usuall station was to the Northward of the said Island of Polipanjan about 15 miles distant from Bantam, as the Deponent judgeth and beleeveth it to be, and to the best of this Deponent's judgement he verily beleeveth That the [?mariners] Souldiers and companies of the said Dutch shipps, as sure true as the said shipp ''Frederick'' was compelled to abide amongst them, did not exceed the number of fower hundred persons. And further to this Interrogarie hee saith he cannot answereth./ / To the 12th hee saith, That it is publique and [Xotorious] That the said Citie of Bantam is situate in the Island of great Java interrate which is generally accompted an Island of a very great extent and Circuit and that he knoweth not the true extent of [?the] circuit thereof, but hath seene the Cards or mapps thereof in Sevrall Indian places, and particularly this Deponent saith that the mapp in this Interrogarie mentioned and now produced and showed unto him, expressing the situation of the said City of Bantam and diverse other maritime parts and places thereunto [?apaXX] and [?arrangement], Doeth to the best of this Deponent's judgements [XXXX] agree with and represent the position of the said City, and other maritime parts thereabouts, as are therein expressed to will for the many of them hee this [?expaiate] hath seene and observed. And farther satisfaction referring himselfe to the said [XXXXX] (saith
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