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Admirall Van Voozst Commander the said Mr … Admirall Van Voozst Commander the said Mr Newman (in<br />
this Deponents hearing) not to take in any more pepper or other goods<br />
at Indra Ponza or any other ports or places on that Coast<br />
and told the said Newman that if hee did soe, or offered to doe soe; hee must and<br />
would seize and surprize his goods or to that effect, and<br />
thereupon the said Mr Newman went with this deponent in<br />
the said ''Bantam ffrigots'' Boate, (which this deponent had brought<br />
for him as aforesaid) and went on board the ''Bantam''<br />
''ffrigot'', and told the said Captaine Taylor what the said<br />
Dutch Admirall Voozst, had declared and said, and the<br />
next day the said Captaine Taylor went with this deponent<br />
on board the said Dutch Admirall, and saith that upon<br />
the said Taylor coming on board; the said Taylor and<br />
Van Voozst had a great deale of Difference together in<br />
Dutch, (which this deponent cannot understand) and after this deponent and the said Taylor had bin XX on board the said XXXX came alsoe unto XXXX XXXX Dutch and saith that<br />
the said Voozst did shewe the said Taylor in the presence of this deponent and thee said Newman his foresaid<br />
orders in writing. which had a great seale affexed thereto<br />
as aforesaid, and the said Voozst delivered the same to<br />
the said Taylor to read: which the said Taylor (who well<br />
understandeth the Dutch Language, and can write and read<br />
the same.) accordingly did read the same over; and after<br />
hee had soe done hee and the said Newman went with this deponent in the said<br />
''Bantam ffrigots'' Boate on board the ''Bantam ffrigot'', And<br />
the said Taylor ?then told the said Newman and this deponent that the said writing that hee<br />
soe read was a Comission from the Generall of Battavia<br />
to hinder English Ships from Trade there and further hee<br />
cannot depose; saving that the said Captaine Van Voozst, did<br />
send one of ?his foresaid pinnaces with about thirty<br />
men therein, to lye at the Rivers mouth at Indra Ponza to hinder<br />
and did hinder the goeing in and coming out of the Captaine<br />
and Company of the ''Bantam frigot'', to and from Indra Ponza<br />
and from bringing any goods from thence on board the said ship<br />
''Bantam ffrigot''.
To the 10th hee saith that a day or two after the said Tailor Mr Newman and<br />
this deponent had bin on board the said Dutch Admirall. the said<br />
Mr Newman. (which was then on shore) put a Quantity of pepper in the said<br />
''Bantam ffrigots'' Long Boate, and the said Newman himselfe<br />
went in the said Boate, and intended to have come directly<br />
to the ''Bantam ffrigot'', and to put the said pepper<br />
on board her, But the said Boate and pepper. and alsoe the<br />
said Thomas Newman was seized by order of the said Van<br />
Voozst and the said pepper the said Voozst caused to be tooke out of the Boate and put into his owne and by him detained and further hee deposeth not
To the 11th hee saith hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid
To the 12th hee cannot depose; hee being then dangerously sick in his<br />
Cabbin: saving the ''Bantam ffrigot'' was carried by the said Van<br />
Voozst and his Company to Battavia. and there anchored under<br />
Comand of the said Van Voozst his said ship, and severall other Dutchst his said ship, and severall other Dutch +
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