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for the same, Moreover hee saith that the … for the same, Moreover hee saith that the said dutch that were<br />
soe at Cape Coast and committed the said dammage and wrongs<br />
were in the service of the dutch Guiney and West India Company<br />
subiects of the [XXXs] of the United Netherlands. And having read [?over GUTTER]<br />
the schedule of goods lost and destroyed by the said burning, annexed to the<br />
said allegation, hee saith and deposeth that the said respective goods and<br />
merchandizes were in the said English house on wednesday next<br />
the said burning (which happened on sunday the first of May 1649)<br />
the sight and knowledge of this deponent who was then there and tooke<br />
notice of them, and were (as hee beleeveth and was credibly informed<br />
by the English who were present) all burnt by the [XXX]<br />
aforesaid of the dutch, to the greate dammage of the said English [?India GUTTER]<br />
and Guiney Company besides the overthrow of their house and<br />
trade at the said coast. And further hee cannot depose.
Alex: Ripley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The eighteenth of Aprill 1660.
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
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'''John Duce''' of Wapping in the County of Middlesex Mariner<br />
aged 36 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth the<br />
Cape Coast mentioned in the said allegation, which hee saith is situated about<br />
three leagues from Cormantine on the coast of Guiney, and well<br />
knew the house or factorie of the honourable English East India and<br />
Guiney Company situat on the said Cape Coast, and saith that about<br />
three hundred paces from the said house was a Castle or fort which hath<br />
bin built by the Swedes, and was afterwards taken from them by the<br />
danes, and that the danes not being able to hold it through want<br />
of supplies, did on or about the sixth of Aprill 1659 deliver the same<br />
up to the dutch who were there in service of the Netherland [?Guiney GUTTER]<br />
Company subiects of the States of the United Netherlands. At which<br />
surrendrie the Negro's (the natives of the countrey) being much<br />
offended, raised a greate force and came and beseiged the said fort or<br />
castle, all which hee knoweth being then present in the [?Roade GUTTER]<br />
of Cape coast in the shipp ''dove'' of London whereof hee was<br />
commannder, and saith that this deponent going ashore and being<br />
in the said English house in compamy with John Gatton and Nicholas<br />
[?herrick] factors of the said English Company there resident, the dutch<br />
in the time of the said seige namely on or about<br />
the eight and twentieth of the said moneth of Aprill 1659, made<br />
a shott at and shott the said English house through [?XXX]<br />
bullet traversing neere this deponent and the said [?GXXX GUTTER]<br />
and [?herrick] namely within a yard of them or thereabouts, and [?thereXXXX GUTTER]<br />
the said dutch continued plying the said house with small shottued plying the said house with small shott +
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