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The 23th of September 1659.
Examined upon … The 23th of September 1659.
Examined upon the foresaid allegation
Touching the ''Mayflower'')<br />
aforesaid)
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'''John Stannian''' of the citie of London gentleman, aged 26<br />
yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first second and rest of the articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee very<br />
well knoweth the shipp the ''Mayflower'' arlate whereof William Curtis was<br />
commander, and that in or about ffebruary or March last was a<br />
twelve moneth the Governour and Company of English Merchants trading<br />
to East India Imployed and set out the said shipp from this port of London<br />
on a trading voyage to goe and saile to Achean on the coast of the Island<br />
of Sumatra to lade pepper for the said companies account, which<br />
hee knoweth having seane the said Companies orders and dispatches touching<br />
the same. And further<br />
saith that hee hath seane Letters sent from the said master and factors of the said shipp<br />
imployed in India about the said shipps trade,<br />
purporting them upon the said shipps arrival before Acheen they went<br />
ashore and had free admittance and license from the Queene of Acheen<br />
to lade her there with pepper, and in the said lettere was alsoe sent the<br />
said Queenes license in writing with a translation thereof<br />
to showe and manifest to the said company her said leave to lade<br />
Pepper there, and further perporting that having got the said leave the<br />
said factors and agents of the Company fell to providing of Pepper there<br />
for her lading, and had sent a boates lading of Pepper to her side to be<br />
laded aboard her for the said Companies use and account, containing fiftie<br />
foure baggs of Pepper which weighed 3898 pounds net English weight<br />
and then there lay there three dutch shipps belonging to the dutch<br />
East India company whereof Balthazar Bort was commander and<br />
that the said boate with the said Pepper therein was by the men and<br />
order of the said Balthazar Borts seized and taken away<br />
from the ''Mayflowers'' side and carried aboard the ''Concordia'' and<br />
of the said dutch shipps, and that that being donne, the dutch tooke out<br />
the Pepper and turned off the ''Mayflowers'' long boat againe,<br />
and would not suffer her to receive any more pepper or other goods from shore but<br />
wholly prohibited and disppointed her therein, and soe overthrew her<br />
voyage, to the greate dammage of the said English companye, and saith<br />
that the said Captain Curtis upon the said first interruption and<br />
seizure of her Pepper went aboard the said commander Balthazar Bort (as<br />
the said letters perport) and expostulated the matter with him and<br />
demanded the Pepper againe, but was denied and sent away without<br />
any redresse, and that ?this deponent hee and William Smith and John<br />
Sledd two of the companies factors made a Protest against the said actions<br />
of the dutch and sent home a copie thereof to London under a notaries<br />
hand and with their names thereto, which copie this deponent<br />
hath seane and beleeveth the names of the said parties<br />
subscribed to the originall thereof and the names subscribed to the said letters to be of their owne<br />
hand writing, And further saith that the said shipp ''Mayflower''<br />
was and is of the burthen of two hundred and eightie tonnes or thereabouts<br />
and was to have there taken in her lading of Pepper<br />
anden in her lading of Pepper<br />
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