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To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith that from the Moneth of September 1656. untill this Present the arlate Sir John Dethick Edward Bolle, John Bancks, Richard fford Edward Micoe William Prittiman and Compamie. (who are all Englishmen, and subjects of this Comonwealth of England.) have bin, and are the Lawfull owners and Proprietors of the said ship the ''Bantam ffrigot''. (whereof Isaac Taylor was and is Master) and of her tackle, Apparrell and ffurniture, and soe comonly Accounted which hee knoweth for that hee came on board the ship to secure in her as Gunner of her in the Voyage in question in the beginning of the moneth of October, 1656: and then hee severall times sawe the foresayd owners come n board the said ship, and give order to the said Taijlor about the Voyage in questions and further cannot depose./: To the 2d hee saith hee well knoweth that the foresaid Owners did set out the said ship from this Port in the moneth of October 1656: upon a Voyage to be made with her to the East Indias, upon their owne Account and Adventure, And saith the said Owners made and Constituted the said Isaac Taylor Master of the said ship and the Arlate Thomas Newman Supra cargoe of her the said Voyage, And they did goe the said Voyage in their said Appointed places. of this deponent's knowledge who went Gunner as aforesaid of the said ffrigot the said Voyage And further hee cannot depose./. To the 3d hee saith that the said Captaine Taylor, Mr Newman this deponent and the rest of the marriners belonging to the sai ship, set saile in her for the East Indias, and arrived at the Island of Indra Ponza on the Coast of Sumatra on or about the 10th of August 1657: Which hee knoweth for that hee sailed thither in the said ship in the Quality aforesaid To the 4th. hee saith that after the arrivall of the ''Bantam'' ''ffrigot'' at the said Island of Indra Ponza (which is and ought to be a ffree place for the English to trade at, and in, and where the Queene of Acheene (who was and is Soveraigne and Supreame Governor of the said place) hath Proclaimed ffree trade to the English nation:) the said Mr Newman and one ffrancis Griffith the Purser of the said ship (who is since dead) did goe on shore on the said island of Indra Ponza, to buy and provide Pepper to lade the said ship and saith they did then and there Buy and Provide a great Quantity of Pepper, which (with other Pepper which they might there in a short time have bought and Provided) [XXX GUTTER] have fully Laden the said ship, which Lading of Pepper [wXX GUTTER] (to
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