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taking of the said shipp "Frederick" and h … taking of the said shipp "Frederick" and her said lading was as<br />
following to witt, the said shipp "Frederick" having waighed [Anchors]<br />
and sett saile out of the said roade, the said Dutch shipps did also<br />
waigh their anchors and sett sayle, and that [?spurt] of the Dutch shipps Commander told the saide Captaine Stanton<br />
and Companie, that they must goe up to their Admirall, or that he<br />
must goe on board their Admirall, wherupon the said Captaine [did]<br />
in his said shipp come up with the said Dutch Admirall, [who called]<br />
unto him to come on board his Admirall shipp, which the said Captaine<br />
said he could not doe; then the said Dutch Admirall or Commander<br />
saied he would presently be on board him, wherupon the said Dutch<br />
Admirall and fleet fired at least 20 or 30 peece of Ordinance<br />
with shott at the said shipp "Frederick", and then the Dutch shipp<br />
called the "[Cecroonde Liefoe]" or "[Leevn]" and presently after the said Admirall<br />
shipp called the "Avenhoorn" layd the shipp "Frederick" on board<br />
and forcibly with great number of armed men entered the same and<br />
cutting downe her great yards and sailes from the yards, and so<br />
tooke possession of her, and tore downe the flagg of the English [?nation]<br />
which was at the maine topp mast head, all which the said Dutch<br />
seizure did so perpetrate and doe about fower miles from Bantam<br />
in the sight of them of that Citie, and of divers Bantamers then<br />
being neere unto them in their boates and prowes, which great<br />
affront and indignity, this deponent conceiveth and verily beleeved was in such manner [acted]<br />
on set purpose by the said Dutch seizure to render the English<br />
disesteemed by the Bantamers and other Indians trading there, and <br />
spectators of the said Transactions, and thereby to ingrosse the trade<br />
of that place unto themselves. Moreover the deponent saieth, That the<br />
said Dutch [seizorers] or Souldjers and Mariners having so ignominiously [torn]<br />
downe the said English flagg fell to tearing it in pieces, which Captaine<br />
Stanton perceiving called to the Dutch Commandor de Keyser, [telling]<br />
him it was no private flagg but the flagg of the English Nation<br />
and therefore he or the said Dutch must expect to render a good [X]<br />
of so great an affront, whereupon the said commander ordered the said<br />
flagg to be delivered to the said Captaine Stanton with liberty to [put]<br />
up again if he pleased, but the said Captaine Stanon replied that<br />
he hoped not to live that day that the flagg of his nation should be<br />
so disgracefully come downe by the Dutch, and afterwards to be<br />
worne by their permission or to that effect, and did thereupon<br />
publiquely throw the said flagg into the sea. This deponent further<br />
more saieth, That shortly after the said seizure, the said Dutch<br />
Admirall and Commanders did in this deponents sight cause the said<br />
shipp the "Frederick" to be fastned with a great iron Chaine [unto]<br />
the said Dutch Admirall shipp, and soe disgracefully [towed her]<br />
for some small way towards Batavia in the sight of the said<br />
(Bantamerse sight of the said<br />
(Bantamers +
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