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All which hee knoweth for that hee for the … All which hee knoweth for that hee for the said twelve yeares last<br />
hath as a Mqariner used the said trade of East India, and<br />
in that sopace made foure voyages thither, and frequented the said<br />
factories and places, and thereby alsoe well knoweth, that teh said<br />
Companies shipps have freely gonne and come to and from their said factories<br />
with their lading for all the said time (saving the injuries hereunder<br />
mentioned) And saith the premisses were and are publique and<br />
notorious, and theref there hath bin and is a publique voice and<br />
fame.
To the second article hee saith and deposeth that within the said yeeres<br />
1655 and 1656 and monethes therein respectively concurring the said<br />
Gouvernour and Company of English Merchants trading to East India sent<br />
diverse of their shipps to those parts, which arived there in<br />
safetie, and that they had at the said East Indies and parts<br />
thereabouts in the said time the shipps the ''Endymion'' (whereof<br />
first Gervase Couchman and after his death John Garrard<br />
was commannder) The ''Marygold'', the ''Golden Cock'', the<br />
''Olive-branch'' and the ''Jonathan'', all which hee this deponent saw<br />
there within the said time, and credibly heard that the shipps the<br />
''Beniamin'' and ''Assada Merchant'' were alsoe then there, and in<br />
the ''Endymion'' and ''Golden Cock'' this examinate sailed, and<br />
thereby knoweth that neither of them or any of their company<br />
or commannders, nor as hee beleeveth any of the said other shipps<br />
offered any injurie, affront or provocation to any dutch shipps<br />
or their commanders or any of their company that were in<br />
those parts at that time.
To the third and fourth hee cannot depose, for this deponent came<br />
out into the said shipp ''Endymion'' that voyage, till her comming to<br />
Jambee.
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that hee being at<br />
Jambee, saw the arivall thither of the said shipp the ''Endymion'' in the<br />
voyage arlate, where hee saith shee tooke in what pepper shee<br />
could get, which being donne shee set saile for Bantam, neere<br />
unto which place (as her company reported) shee had bin before that<br />
her comming to Jambee, but was not permitted to goe in, and<br />
saith hee this deponent came passenger in her from Jambee<br />
and thereby well knoweth that when she came neare the dutch<br />
fleete, which was about nine saile, and rode about foure<br />
leagues off Bantam, shee was commannded to come into the<br />
said fleete and to come to an anchor neere the dutch Generall<br />
whose name as hee remembreth was the Heer Lilly, and the said<br />
shipp ''Endymion'' obeying came accordingly to an anchor, and [?there]<br />
hee saith some of the dutch shipps that<br />
hade of the dutch shipps that<br />
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