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insomuch that they within could not looke out without danger of being shott nor indeed could they continue safe within, the shott comming frequently in at the windowes and through the walls from the Castle, as being purposely directed and aimed to destroy the said house and they that were therein, And saith that on sunday the first of May of the said yeare, English stile, the dutch out of their desire of destroying the said English factorie set fire on houses of the village which were within twenty yards or thereabouts and next unto the said English house, and this they did albeit there were houses of the Negroes much nearer the said Castle than the said houses which they first fired, and had their intention bin rather to annoy the Negroes than to Doe mischeife to the English they would as hee conceiveth have begun in their firing with the said houses that were neerest unto them. But as hee saith the fire suddainly after it was so begun lighting on the said English house, the said English factors and their servants bestirred themselves to quench it and endeavoured to pull off the thatch for the better extinguishing the fire, but the dutch soe plied it (as this deponent understood for heewas now gonne aboard where hee was withinn sight of it namely within halfe an English mile of it) with small shott that the servants could not get up to pull downe And soe hee saith the said house was on the said first of May 1659 burnt and destroyed by the said dutch and their meanes, by such their firing and routing and XXX the XXX and keeping the XXX from being XXX. And XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX it logs were dangerously burnt, XXX or darker was XXX to be put to XXX XXX XXX. And further then this deponent while XXX XXX XXX XXX (whXXX XXX would on salt XXX XXX was above fourteene XXX or thereabout before the said firing) saw then there was XXX of goods and merchandize therein belonging to the said XXX XXX, of the XXX andqualities ention in the XXX XXX, and as XXX beleaveth the very qualities of the XXX therein expressed, XXX of quantities and knew and tooke notice of which goods and merchandize XXX were dXXX (saving the XXX) by the XXXby the said fire and XXX XXX XXX XXX following XXX deponent XXX) to XXX with his said prize, XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX requested him to returne with his boate and some of his Company and XXX of the Company to XXX XXX to XXX the XXX XXX was left in the XXX and ruine of the said cargo, all SSS of her goods being destroid with fire as aforesaid, whereof the said XXX and XXX XXX before this deponent XXX to XXX. And saith then this deponent and XXX of his Company in his boate and XXX of the said East India and XXX XXX and XXX in the XXX XXX and arriving on the said XXX XXX under XXX morn of XXX following for and firm, and endeavouring to goe from to XXX off the said iron (XXX about 200 barrs) the duty firme the XXX fall
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