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The 23th of September 1659.
Touching the … The 23th of September 1659.
Touching the ''Advise'' and)<br />
''dragon'' aforesaid)
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''4.'''
'''John Stannian''' of London gentleman aged 26 yeeres<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that in or about May last was a twelve moneth the Governour and<br />
Company of English Merchants trading to East India sent out and employed<br />
from this Port in Merchant service two shipps the one named the ''Advise''<br />
Robert May commander, and the other named the ''dragon'' Nicholas<br />
Baddiford commander to goe and saile for Bantam in the Island<br />
of Java Major, and that in or about the said moneth of May 1658<br />
the said Companies factors having received their Commissions, and the said shipps<br />
their dispatches they set saile from the downes and arrived with their money and goods of<br />
a greate valew for the said companies account, to be dischardged at<br />
Bantam, and there to be reladed for England, All which hee knoweth<br />
for that hee was privie to the giving of the said Commissions and<br />
dispatches, and having seene the Charterpartie of the said affreightance<br />
and being acquainted with all the transactions touching the said shipps.
To the third fourth and rest of the articles of the said allegation<br />
hee saith and deposeth that according to advises and dispatches for<br />
the factors and commanders of the said two shipps sent to the said<br />
English Company and others (which this deponent hath seene) the shipp the<br />
''Advise'' arived at Anjar neare Bantam on or about the 15th of<br />
October 1658, and that on or about the seaventeenth of the said moneth<br />
a Pr[?aw] was sent off from the English house under command of<br />
one Peter Corke with fresh provisions to be caried aboard her<br />
but fearing himselfe to goe aboard in regard of certaine dutch shipps<br />
which were there riding, hee sent off a canow or boate with an<br />
English flagg and two of the companies servants aboard one of the<br />
dutch shipps to know whither the pra[?w] might come aboard the ''Adrian''<br />
but the dutch carrying them selves most insolently towards the English servants<br />
the said Canow and kept the same and the servants and flagg, and<br />
would not nor did suffer that the said shipp should receive the Provisions<br />
nor did they send warning to the Pra[?w] to depart, And that on or<br />
about the eighteenth day of the said moneth of October, the said shipp<br />
''Advise'' arived by the Commander of the dutch ffleete under Pull[?apanjan GUTTER]<br />
Who traeted the commander and company of the ''Advise'' very dis?courtesly<br />
and surrounded him with five of the dutch shipps, and on the next day the said<br />
English factors were commanded out of the ''Advise'' aboard the dutch<br />
Commadore, And that the said English<br />
factors then related to the dutch that they belonged unto the Licensed<br />
East India Company of England and come forth upon their account<br />
and that they desired and did hope and expect according to the articles<br />
of Peace betweene the two nations, that without the least molestation<br />
or interruption they might quietly saile into Bantam Roade, or that<br />
their designed parts and dispose of themselves according to their Commissions<br />
Andrding to their Commissions<br />
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