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the said boates or some of them in such th … the said boates or some of them in such their passage to or from<br />
Bantam, if they had soe pleased but did not actually disturb or <br />
annoy them as it was then and there generally observed. And<br />
further to this [?abb. of interrogatory] hee cannot depose.
To the 23th and 24th [?abb. of interrogatory] he saieth, That the said shipp the ''Frederick''<br />
having taken in her said lading in Bantam roade, did therewith<br />
come out from theureupon the twentieth day of October 1657 and <br />
being under saile in order to her returne for Europe with her said<br />
lading, the said shipp and her lading and goods and provisions<br />
on board her were by force and violence seized and taken by<br />
the said Dutch fleet then consisting of six shipps to witt the<br />
''Avenhoun'' of Hoorne being then the Admirall shipp whereof one <br />
de Keiser was commander and then Admirall of the said fleete.<br />
The ''Hooft'' of Zeeland, the shipp ''Conyne'' & the shipp ''Boshlion''<br />
being two English shipps lately taken from the English, the <br />
''Geroonde Liefde'', and a small flyeboate whose name he knoweth<br />
not neither the names of any of the Commanders of the said<br />
last mentioned shipps, all which shipps then were in the<br />
immediate service of the said Dutch East India Companie as the<br />
Commanders and Companies thereof did generally acknowledge<br />
and affirme and did by like force and violence carry the said<br />
shipp ''Frederick'' together with her said lading and provisions to<br />
Batavia aforesaid where the same was and were confiscated <br />
by the Dutch Court of Admiraltie in that place and thereby he<br />
this deponent and Companie were spoyled of the possession of the <br />
said shipp and goods and provisions aforesaid and there this<br />
deponent was imprisoned togeather withe the said Robert Skinner<br />
formerly a prisoner there. And this [epaiace] further saieth that <br />
immediately after this deponent and Company at the time aforesaid<br />
did sett saile with his said shipp ''Frederick'' and in order to his<br />
said intended voiage, the said Dutch fleet then riding neere into him<br />
did also all of them waigh anchor and sett sayle, and forthwith came<br />
[?up] with the said shipp, and calling to this deponent in Dutch told him<br />
that he must goe to their Admirall, which then was directly in<br />
the way of this deponents passage, and whom he could not well avoyd<br />
whereupon this deponent steering his Course came up with the said<br />
Dutch Admiralls shipp, the rest of the said Dutch shipps then<br />
sayling by the ''ffredeuir'' on either side, and this deponent being so<br />
came up, the said Commander or his [?Captainie] called to this deponent<br />
in Dutch, saying he must come on board his shipp<br />
witt the said Dutch Admirall, whereunto this deponent replyed that<br />
he must not goe out of his said shipp, and thereupon the said <br />
Admirall or his Captaine saied that he would presently be on<br />
board this deponents said shipp, or to that effect, and there []<br />
presently fired severall peeces of Ordnance, with sharp at this<br />
deponents said shipp, as also did the whole Dutch fleet aforesaid<br />
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