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Said Commander or Admiral, this deponent t … Said Commander or Admiral, this deponent thereunto replyed that<br />
he had nothing to say to him, and that he would not goe out of his said<br />
shipp, they proving that they could not by threats or persuasions get<br />
this deponent’s consent to leave his said shipp, the said Dutch Captaines then<br />
on board of Fredericks commanded the Dutch souldyers to putt the deponent<br />
by force out of his said ship into one of the Dutch boates, which<br />
was accordingly done and, in the said boate, this deponent and his<br />
chief mate and Boateswanie were carried and brought on board<br />
the said Admirall shipp, wherein this Deponent was carried to Batavia<br />
and upon the 23rd day of the said moneth of October was by<br />
the said Commander and two of his said Captaines of the said Dutch<br />
fleet carried on shoare into the castle of Batavia and presented or<br />
brought before the Dutch Lord Generall of India by name Joan<br />
Maetsluycker, who after some questions sent this Deponent and Capt<br />
Lawrence Browning Commander of the other English shipp of <br />
"Francis and John" to prison upon Point Pearle in the said<br />
Castle, where, as aforesaid they found the said Robert Skinner<br />
And Captain John Kingsman aforesaid prisoners in and under the<br />
noysome shedd predeposed, to whose number they were added<br />
and there remained prisoners until the 7th Day of December following<br />
at which time the Dutch fleet departed from Batavia bound for<br />
Europe; having this Deponent and the other persons abovementioned<br />
Prisoners on board them, being sent on board the same out of the <br />
said prison by order of the said Dutch Generall, and this deponent guarded by<br />
a souldyer with a musket and lighted match to deliver him on<br />
board the shipp "Malacca" as a prisoner unto the Commander of the<br />
said shipp, to be carried to Amsterdam. And further to these<br />
Interrogatories hee saieth he cannot depose./
To the 25th Interrogatorie hee saieth That during such [time] at he<br />
this deponent was imprisoned in the said Castle of Batavia, hee<br />
was putt into a filthy and noisome prison at aforesaid, being at <br />
aforesaid full of vermin whereby, and by the noisomnesse of the said<br />
prison this deponent fell sick and was in very great Danger of his life<br />
as was then very well known unto and observed by this deponent<br />
then fellow prisoner, and that during the whole time of such that <br />
Deponent’s imprisonment he received only six slight dollars<br />
amounting fower and twenty English shillings, hee this<br />
Deponent then having a kinsman of his and two of his servants with<br />
him to be maintained, and victualls and necessaries in that place being<br />
exceeding deare; And this deponent further saiste that upon the fifth<br />
day of November 1657, English style, he this deponent and the said<br />
Robert Skinner and Capt Lawrence Browning were taken out of the <br />
said prison and having each of them a musketeer with lighted<br />
match to guard them, they were conducted and brought to the [Towne]<br />
house of Batavia, being the place of Judicature of that City.<br />
(and beingature of that City.<br />
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