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ladeing or soe much thereof as hee thought … ladeing or soe much thereof as hee thought fitt for pepper and<br />
other goods for Account of the sayd Symon Delboe Andrew<br />
Middleton Nathaniell Temms Thomas Britton John Taylor and Abraham Syon (sic) and having thereabord the same, and also some<br />
pepper and other goods for Accompt of him selfe the sayd Kingsman,<br />
and his Mariners (whereof this deponent was one) departed peaceably<br />
from Bantam therewith bound for Europe, And saith there<br />
was a good quantitie of dollers or peeces of eight aboard the sayd shipp<br />
at such her departure from Bantam but the certaine summe or for whose of<br />
Accompt hee knoweth not And saith the sayd shipp with her sayd<br />
homewards ladeing and moneye being come some few leagues from<br />
Bantam shee was chased by fower dutch shipps belonging to the<br />
dutch East India Company who fired some gunnes at her which<br />
another dutch shipp belonging to the sayd dutch East India Company<br />
who lay in the ''Postillians'' way for Europe takeing notice of<br />
sett sayle and mett the ''Postillian'' and in a hostile manner<br />
assaulted her and made divers shott at her with bulletts some<br />
whereof tore and spoiled her sayles and rigging and soome tooke ?place<br />
in the hull of her and in her ?interia the other dutch shipps who<br />
were in chase of her came up with her, and soe among them seized<br />
upon her and her ladeing and diaposessed her Captaine and Company<br />
of her and it, and put dutch men aboard her and carried<br />
her ladeing to Batavia and there imprizoned the sayd Kingsman<br />
the Captaine of her and Samuell ?Card:X her Purser first aboard<br />
a dutch shipp and after in the Castle of Batavia where they were<br />
kept close prisoners for some weekes and not permitted to speake<br />
with any of the ''Postillians'' Company, and (as this deponent heard<br />
by the relation if his precontest Jasper Williams who<br />
goeing one day to the Castle to carry the sayd Kingsman a<br />
Coate was kept a prizoner there, and as hee alsoe heard by relation<br />
of some Statesmen who speake good English and were then (OR, ther) souldiers<br />
belonging to the sayd castle) the sayd Kingsman and Carde were<br />
forced to lye upon a brick pavement for some dayes without any<br />
cloathes but their wearing garments, and afterwards when more<br />
liberty was graunted that his shipps company might come and speake<br />
with him yet they were not suffered to speake but at a distance the sayd<br />
Kingsman standing sixe or eight stepps higher upon a point of the<br />
Castle and those who came to speake with him standing belowe on the<br />
Court of guards and souldiers who understood and spake English<br />
being allwaies present to heare what was sayd, and afterwards<br />
this deponent being permitted to be with the sayd Kingsman in the<br />
Castle during his stay at Battavia thereby knoweth that the allowance<br />
made by the Generall for victualls for the sayd Kingsman, Carde<br />
this deponent and his precontest Jasper Williams and one John Yard and<br />
another who were constantly with the sayd Kingsman, was only twelve<br />
dollarsgsman, was only twelve<br />
dollars +
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