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A business of examining of wit … '''E:E:'''
A business of examining of witnesses on the)<br />
behalfe of Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham)<br />
Christofer Willoughby John Page and others,)<br />
Merchants of London, freighters of the shipp<br />
the ''Jonathan'', against the Dutch East India)<br />
Company in particular and all others in generall)
Smith
'''Rp.'''
The 11th of ffeburary 1658
Examined upon an allegation given in on the<br />
behalf of the said Mr Thompson and others
'''1.'''
'''henry Dacres''' of London Marchant aged<br />
34 yeeres or thereabouts sworne in the said<br />
Court of the Admiraltie of England, saith and<br />
deposeth as followth videlicet.
To the fifth article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knoweth all the producents videlicet Maurice Thompson Thomas<br />
Canham, Cristofer Willoughby, John Page and company arlate and saith<br />
they were the monethes arlate of the yeere 1656 freighters and Imployers<br />
of the said shipp the ''Jonathan'' and sent her out from this port on a<br />
trading voyage for severall parts and places of the East India's, and<br />
there to retourne for England on and for their proper account<br />
which hee knoweth for that hee was acquainted with and present at<br />
such affreightment, and went supra cargo in the said shipp the said voyage<br />
in the service and imployment of the said producents.
To the second article hee saith that within the foresaid time namely in<br />
and about the moneth of January 1656 the said shipp the ''Jonathan''<br />
being in the parts of the East Indias and quietly trading there had aboard her<br />
greate quantities of goods and merchandizes for the use and account of the<br />
said Maurice Thompson and company aforesaid which she had taken in<br />
on the coast of Coromandel and which they were carrying to Bantam,<br />
for which place of Bantam alone the said goods were proper and not for<br />
any other part or place thereabouts to be bartered away, and were<br />
purposely bought and provided for Bantam, where they were to be sold<br />
and bartered away for such goods as were then to be had and procured<br />
for the most advantage of the said producents, which hee knoweth for that<br />
hee was supra cargo aforesaid and the person there caused the said goods to<br />
be taken in and was in person going with them in the said shipp for<br />
Bantam.
To the third and 4 articles hee saith that in or about the said moneth of January<br />
1656 (old stile) the said shipp in her course of prceeding from the<br />
said coast for Bantam, coming neere the Island of Pulliapanjan within<br />
five leagues or lesse distance of the Road of Bantam, was met with<br />
and set upon by five saile of dutch shipps, in the Imployment of the<br />
East India company of the United Netherlands, and that upon their haling<br />
and demanding XXXX that shipp (Speaking of the ''Jonathan'') over and<br />
XXXX bound, and XXXX XXXX XXX sewall of England, came from<br />
Cormandel bound wth XXX for Bantam, thet of the dutch shipps<br />
XXXX and told the master and company of the ''Jonathan'' that they must<br />
not nor could run into Bantam, and that they lay there on purpose to<br />
oppose them or any other shipps of England that should endeavour to run into<br />
Bantam, for w:ch (as they XXX) they had order from the Generall of the said dutch East India<br />
company XXXX was XXX and heard the XXX
To the fifth and sixth 7. 8 and 9th articles hee saith that the master and company of the<br />
''Jonathan'' finding this XXXXX of the dutch, fairly and earnestly instructed<br />
XXXXXX of the dutch commanders to goe in, and desired them to XXXX or<br />
send aboard the ''Jonathan'' and XXX her assuring them XXXX XX<br />
any XXXder, XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br />
aboardXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br />
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