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HCA 13/72 f.529r Annotate
First transcribed 2 December 2015  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 529  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 02/12/2015  +
Transcription The 30th day of August 1658/ [CENTRE HEADIThe 30th day of August 1658/ [CENTRE HEADING] Examined on the sayd Interrogatories/ '''Rp.''' '''3us''' '''Jasper Williams''' of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney<br /> and County of Middlesex Mariner Coxon of the shipp ''Postilion''<br /> the voyage in question aged twenty one yeares or thereabouts<br /> a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth<br /> as followeth videlicet To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew the Interrogate shipp the ''Pos=''<br /> ''tillion'' (whereof the Interrogatorie John Kingsman the voyage in question was<br /> Master) hee this deponent being Coxon of her that voyage And saith that<br /> Symon delboe and Andrew Middleton Alderman Themys<br /> Thomas Britten John Tayler and Abraham Syon Merchants of London were the sayd voyage the true and<br /> lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the sayd shipp and alsoe sett her forth<br /> in the yeare 1656 and freighted her with a Cargo of goods for Bantam<br /> in the South Seas or East Indies./ To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth Bantam and saith there was the voyage in<br /> question an English factory there setled and one Mr ffrederick Skinner<br /> was then the Cheife Agent for the English there, and there were other English<br /> Merchants and factors there resident And hee hath Credibly heard and beleeveth that an<br /> English ffactory hath bin there established and English ffactors resident<br /> and that the English Nation have freely traded thither for these<br /> thirty of forty yeares last saving that for a yeare or two last past<br /> their trade thither hath bin obstructed by the dutch And further saving his<br /> subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/ To the third and 4th Interrogatories hee saith the ''Postillion'' with her outward Cargo<br /> came neere Bantam and being within some few leagues therewith, was<br /> mett with by a dutch shipp called (as afterwards appeared) the ''Sea hound''<br /> manned with a dutch Captaine and dutch mariners who held the<br /> ''Postillion'' and asked whether shee was bound and answere was made by<br /> John Kingsman Commander of the ''Postillion'' that shee was bound<br /> to Bantam and came from London and told him if hee would come<br /> aboard her would give him further satisfaction whereupon the sayd<br /> dutch Captaine and some of his Company came aboard the ''Postillian''<br /> and the sayd Kingsman then telling him that the ''Postillian'' came from<br /> London and was bound with her Cargo to Bantam to the English factory<br /> there to trade the sayd dutch Captaine replyed that shee must not<br /> goe in thither to trade for that there was warrs betwixt the<br /> dutch East India Company and the King of Bantam and required the ''Postillian'' to goe with her ladeing for Battavia whereto the<br /> sayd Kingsman answered and sayd what is that to the English<br /> must not they goe to trade at their owne factory there because<br /> there is a warr betwixt the dutch East India Company who are but<br /> privateia Company who are but<br /> private  +
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