| First transcribed
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30 November 2015 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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523 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 30/11/2015 +
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| Transcription
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going into Bantam were constrayned to goe … going into Bantam were constrayned to goe with the sayd<br />
shipp to an Island on the Coast of Sumatra called Pullagunda<br />
which is an extreame hott and unhealthfull Island and there tarry<br />
fower moneths or thereabouts to take in the sayd shipps ladeing<br />
which was faine to be brought aboard by stealth in boates<br />
from Bantam and while the sayd shipp spe lay there hee saith<br />
the sayd Brampton the Master of her and some others of her company<br />
by reason (as hee beleeveth) of the intemperature and unhealthfullnesse<br />
of the Eyre there fell sick and dyed, And the ''Olive Branch'' being<br />
by the meanes aforesayd soe long in getting in hher lading, shee<br />
thereby lost her Monsoones which is a winde that there blowes<br />
constantly untill a certayne tyme of the yeare one way and serves<br />
very fittly to bring home shipps thence for England, and after<br />
that tyme blowes the other part of the yeare directly contrary<br />
by which meanes the ''Olive Branch'' was after she had taken<br />
in her lading forced to goe and Winter at an Island called<br />
Mauritius the tyme being past for her getting about the<br />
Cape Bona Speranza to goe for Ligorne this hee deposeth for<br />
the reasons aforesayd being Purser and aboard And<br />
further hee cannot depose/
To the 9th hee saith the ''Olive Branch'' arrived at Ligorne with her<br />
ladeing on the seaventeenth of January 1657 (old style) and not<br />
before, by reason of the hindernances aforesayd, And saith that if<br />
shee had bin permitted by the dutch to have gone into Bantam to<br />
have taken in her ladeing at her first arrivall (as shee intended<br />
to have done) shee might by Gods blessing and the Industry of her<br />
Company have there taken in her ladeing in fowerteene or sixteene<br />
dayes and soe in all lykelyhood have arrived at Ligorne therewith<br />
in the beginning of July 1657 soe that the sayd shipp the ''Olive''<br />
''Branch'' was by the shipps of the dutch East India Company and through their meanes and default<br />
obstructed in meanes aforesayd in her sayd voyage sixe monethes and a halfe or<br />
thereabouts longer than otherwise shee needed to have bin And<br />
further hee cannot depose/
To the 10th hee saith hee knoweth that the shipp ''Olive Branch''<br />
was and is of the burthen of two hundred tonnes or thereabouts and<br />
carried in her the voyage in question forty two men and boyes and<br />
eighteene peeces of Ordnance and was in this deponents Judgement<br />
well worth to be lett to freight for a voyage in the Indies two hundred<br />
and fifty pounds sterling per moneth, or thereabouts/
Tos sterling per moneth, or thereabouts/
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