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'''Rp. 2.'''
'''William Stephens''' of Li … '''Rp. 2.'''
'''William Stephens''' of Limehouse Marriner late<br />
masters mate of the shipp the ''Jonathan'' (Robert<br />
Graves comander) aged 28 yeares or therabouts<br />
sworne and examined
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knoweth the producents Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham<br />
and Christofer Willoughbie and saith that they and companie were the<br />
monethes arlate of the yeare 1656 freighters and Imployers of the said<br />
shipp the ''Jonathan'', and imployed and sent her out on a merchandizing<br />
voyage from this port for the East Indies and places thereabouts for<br />
their proper account, and they upon their account shee was to retourne<br />
by her said Merchandizing imployment to this port, which hee knoweth<br />
being Master Mate of her the said voyage, and going the voyage
To the second article hee saith and deposeth that within the said time<br />
namely in or about the moneth of January 1656 the said shipp was quietly<br />
trading in the parts of East India, and had aboard her a considerable<br />
quantitie of goods and merchandizes which were for the said account<br />
taken in [?on] the coast of Coromandell, and were to be transported<br />
to Bantam, as were proper for Bantam trade and not elsewhere, and<br />
were bought [?provided] and laded with purpose to be carried to<br />
Bantam and there delivered, and the said commander and company<br />
were carrying the said goods in the said shipp for Bantam where thee<br />
same were to be [?vended] and bartered for the benefit accompt<br />
of the said Imployers of the said shipp, which hee knoweth for the reason<br />
aforesaid.
To the third and fourth fifth and 6th articles hee saith that in the said time<br />
namely in or about the said moneth of January 1656 English stile<br />
the said shipp in her passage from the coast of [?Cormandel] for<br />
Bantam, comming neere [?Pulliapajam] Iland about five leagues<br />
distant from the Roade of Bantam, came [?acrosse] a Squadron<br />
of ducth shipps consisting of five or six saile, which were in the<br />
service of the dutch East India company (as the persons aboard them<br />
acknowledged) one of the boates whereof came from one of the said<br />
ducth shipps and haled the ''Jonathan'' and asking whence shee came<br />
and whither bound, and being, and being answered that shee was an English shipp<br />
comming from Cormandell bound for Bantam, the company [?in] the said<br />
boate commanded her to come to their Generall, and the [?commander]<br />
and company of the ''Jonathan'' [?holding] in their course they of the said<br />
boate called out to their shipp being one of the said dutch shipps that<br />
was nere at hand, and willed the company aboard her to shoote at<br />
the ''Jonathan'' and accordingly the said shipp fired a gun [?XX XXX]<br />
towards the shipp ''Jonathan'' [?with the ?XXXX XXX XXX XXXX]<br />
[?by] the Admirall of the said Squadron, [?XXXXXXXXXX]<br />
[?XXX XXX XX Admirall XXX the said XXX having the XXX XXX]irall XXX the said XXX having the XXX XXX] +
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