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of Pepper, for account of them the said Go … of Pepper, for account of them the said Governours<br />
and Company, and to bring the same so laded thence for<br />
the fort Saint George, whense it was to have bin transported for England, and here to be delivered for the account<br />
aforesaid, All which this deponent well knoweth to be true<br />
for that he hath seene severall orders and Discpatches of<br />
the said Company concerning the same./ He saith further that<br />
he hath also seen letters and Advises, sent by the said Com=<br />
panies ffactors, and Agents imployed by them in East India about the<br />
said ships designe, signifying that upon the said ships arrivall<br />
before Acheene, they went ashore to get leave of the Queen<br />
of Acheene to lade her there with pepper, and that they had<br />
obtained the same, and sent a letter from her, togeather with a translation<br />
thereof, unto the said Company for their<br />
satifaction. And that thereupon they the said ffactors<br />
began to provide Pepper to lade the said ship for<br />
the said Companies account, and had sent one boates lading<br />
of Pepper to the side of the ''Mayflower'' to bee<br />
laden and taken aboard her which said boats llading contained<br />
fifty foure bagges weighing in the whole 3868 ?lb English<br />
weight; And thais deponent saith that the said letters purported<br />
further that there lay then before Acheene three Dutch<br />
ships (Commanded by one Balthazar Bort) in the immediate<br />
service of the Dutch east India Company, and that the<br />
said Bort seeing the foresaid boat laden with Pepper by the side<br />
of the ''May flower'', sent and seized the same, and caused it to<br />
be carried and put aboard one of his three shipps named the<br />
''Concordia'', which being done the dutch turned off the ''Mayflowers'',<br />
boat againe, ?but prohibited and forbad them to bring any<br />
more Pepper from shore afterwards, so that the voyage was<br />
wholly disappointed and frustrated to the great losse and<br />
damage of the said English Company. And that, (also according<br />
to the further Purport of the said letters) the Commander of the<br />
''May flower'' Captaine William Curtis, seeing the Premisses, went,<br />
on board the ship of the said Balthazor Bort, and demanded<br />
of him the Pepper by his order seized and taken out of the<br />
''May flowers'' long boat. and reasoned with the said Bort touch-<br />
ing the foresaid Action, but was denied his Pepper, nor<br />
could hee get any satifaction therefore; whereupon he and<br />
John Sled and William Smith (two of the Companies ffactors)<br />
or Agent there) made a Protest against the said Dutch, and<br />
against such their Actions, and after sent to the said English company a Copy thereof<br />
signed by a Notary publique and themselves which this deponent hath seene, and<br />
beleeveth the names of the parties subscibed to the orig=<br />
inall thereof and alsoe the letters sent by them, to be of their owne proper handwriting. And<br />
this deponent saith he knoweth the ship ''Mayflower'' then was and is<br />
of the burthen of two hundred and eighty Tonns or thereabouts<br />
and that she was by the Companies order to have been fully<br />
ladenorder to have been fully<br />
laden +
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