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Ad 9um dicit that all the Ammunition then onboard the said ship (saving
what belonged unto her was at the time of the lading thereof
intended to be delivered at Surrat, and in the bills of Lading
signed for the same it was mentioned to be delivered there
and the same should have bin landed there, but that
at the time of the said ships comming neere Surat the weather
was somewhat foule and expected at that season of the yeere (as ususally) to be very Tempestious, soe that they did not benture to goeinto Swally hole, And saith if the said Ammunition had
bin there delivered at that time it would have taken up a
greate deale of time, to unlade the same, and send the same
from the said ship to Surrat, and to bring ballast from thence
to the said ship, And soe much was sincerely told to the sdaid
Peter De Bitter the Vice Admirallm by him this Deponent et alr nescit.

Ad 10um 11. et 12um dicit that the said Peter De Bitter did jeepe the said
ship Constantinople Merchant untill the 22th day of the
said month of September 1659. on which day the said De Butter
declared that hee would take out the foresaid Ammunition
out of the said ship, and told this deponent that hee had
Commission from the [?XXXX] John Maetsucher Generall of Battavia
to take out of any ship that hee met at sea all the Ammunition
hee found in them more then necessary for the said ships owne
use, saying that although the Constantinople Merchant were
bound to Surratt that hee could not answer the letting of her hoe
without first taking out the said Ammunition or to that
effext, and this deponent then saying to him, that if hee tooke
out the Ammunition hee supposed hee would lett them
goe into Goa, for that they Pretended they hindered them
because of their having Ammunition onboard or to that effect
the said Vice Admirall made answer and said, Noe
that hee could not doe, or to that purpose, And saith that
upon such the said De Bitters declaration, the Captaine of
the Constantinople Merchant, and the said Governour and
Companyes ffactors onboard her, caused her hatches to be locked
and made fast, And the foresaid Mr Carey told this deponent
that hee acquainted the said said De Bitter that the Dutch were
to make satisffaction for Injuryes and wrongs Done to the
English before, and that they must expect to make satisfaction
for what they then did, or to that effect, and alsoe said that
the said De Bitter replied that the English and Dutch Company
might agree about it and said that hee must followe
his [?Commission] and on that day sent Captaines of the said
Dutch ships and severall of their Officers and Company onboard
the Constantinople Merchant who did in this deponents sight
break open the said ships hathces, and tooke and
carryed out of her on board their ships
ffifty nine Iron Gunns, three brasse Morter peeces with Carriagges
and 1973