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And other parts thereof to the sayd Kingsm … And other parts thereof to the sayd Kingsman the Master, and to the<br />
Mariners of his Company And saith hee this deponent had aboard<br />
the sayd shipp at her seizure for his owne proper Accompt sixe<br />
parcells of pepper which makes eight hundred and two pounds weight<br />
of pepper, which if it had come safe to England (it being all white<br />
pepper) would there have yeilded fowerscore pounds and fower shillings<br />
sterling, and hee had also then aboard her a thousand [?Lampoone]<br />
[?canes] which at London if they had come safe thither would have<br />
yeilded fifty pounds of like money, And farther hee cannot<br />
depose not knoweing the quantitie of the other ladeing nor what to<br />
value the same at only hee knoweth that it did amount to a<br />
very great summe, beside the dollers which were aboard at<br />
her seizure.
John Beard [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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[CROSSED OUT: The foresayd Captaine Kingsman to the eleventh<br />
Interrogatorie.]
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To the 11th Interrogatorie hee saith that Bantam is scituate on an Island<br />
called Java Maior which is in length about a hundred leagues and<br />
not halfe soe broad as longe and that Bantam hath in it about two hundred thousand people and soe farr as this deponent could<br />
observe the dutch had not above five or sixe shipps which laye before<br />
Bantam,<br />
yet saith that there<br />
are severall Islands as Sumatra and Pullagunda which lye not farr<br />
distant from Bantam and have a constant and dayly recourse by way each to other they to Bantam and Bantam to them<br />
of trade with pepper and other Commodities, and soe<br />
had during the tyme of this deponents being at Bantam And it<br />
was dayly frequent with the Bantamers to send out (notwithstanding<br />
the seige of the dutch two or three hundred fisher ?Prowes to fish<br />
up and downe in the Seas beyond the places where the dutch shipps frequently lay<br />
which returned usually at Evening without any preiudice doe to them<br />
by the dutch And hee saith that the Captaine of the dutch shippe<br />
who seized the ''Postillian'' did declare to this deponent (hee askeing<br />
them whether the warr with the King of Bantam were betwixt the<br />
States of the United Netherlands Provinces and the sayd King,) that<br />
the sayd warr was only betweene the dutch East India Company<br />
and the sayd King And this deponent in the tyme that hee was a<br />
prisoner at Batavia being called before the Generall their and his Councell did argue<br />
that as a reason, why hee this deponent and his sayd shipp ought to bee<br />
released for that the dutch Captaine who seized her had confessed<br />
to him this deponent that the warr with the King of Bantam was not<br />
a nationall warr betweene him and the States of the united Netherlands<br />
but onely between him and the dutch East India Company,<br />
(who as this deponent then sayd were only private persons) whereto one of the Councell replyed<br />
and sayd it is noe matter for that wee will make you an example,<br />
for will make you an example,<br />
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