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the ''Jonathan'' as aforesaid that shee wa … the ''Jonathan'' as aforesaid that shee was bound for Bantam, told<br />
them plainly that they might not nor should goe in thither and taht they (speaking of teh said [?XXXX]) lay there purposely to keep them out And<br />
to come to an anchor neere the Admirall, his precontest henry dacres<br />
went aboard the dutch Admirall, and upon his retourne aboard the<br />
''Jonathan'' declared that the dutch Admirall had expressly forbidden and<br />
prohibited their going in to Bantam, and had declared that if they endeavoured to goe in<br />
hee would sink them or to that effort, and thereupon the said Mr Dacres being<br />
sopra cargo or merchant of the ''Jonathan'' made a protest against such their<br />
hinderance by the dutch. All which hee knoweth being present aboard<br />
the ''Jonathan''. And further deposeth not.
To the 9:th article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
the said shipp the ''Jonathan'' being soe prohibited and hindered by the dutch<br />
from going into Bantam to which shee was designed with her said lading<br />
was constrained to depart and goe to other places for which her goods<br />
were not proper and to which they were not designed, and there to barter<br />
and truck them away, to the great losse and damage of the said<br />
imployers in respect of what the proffit would have bin if the said goods<br />
hath bin [?carried] to and delivered at Bantam according as they were designed
To the tenth hee saith that by the said hindrance and prohibition of the<br />
dutch the said Imployers have suffered greate losse and dammage, but<br />
the valew thereof hee cannot as hee saith estimate
Repeated with his precontest before<br />
Doctor Godolphin.
Wm: Stephens [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 17th of ffebruray 1658
Examined upon the foresaid allegation
'''3.'''
'''Alexander Prescott''' of London Marchant aged 27 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth That hee very well<br />
knoweth the producents Maurice Thompsom, Thomas Canham, Christofer<br />
Willoughby, John Page and company aclate and saith they were in and for<br />
all the monthes arlate of the yeere 1656 XXXXX and Imployers of the<br />
shipp the ''Jonathan'' arlate (Robert [?Groves] commander) as a trading or<br />
merchandizing voyage from England to the parts of East India whence shee<br />
was to retourne for England for their use and accompt, and saith that in<br />
January last was two yeares the said shipp being quietly trading in the said<br />
parts, and having aboard her a quantitie of marchandizes consisting in [?XXX]<br />
cottons and callicos which were for the said account taken aboard her on the coast<br />
of Cormandel was carrying the same for Bantam for which place the said goods were<br />
proper and were provided purposely to be there vended and disposed of<br />
and not [?soe] [?proper] to be disposed or at any other place, nor would [?XXXXX] in<br />
those parts yeeld soe much proffitt to her said merchants as at Bantam, which hee<br />
knoweth being purser of the said shipp and goeing the said voyage from place to<br />
place in her, being alsoe second to Mr Dacres the [?Copa] merchant of the said [?shipp]
To the third and fourth articles hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp being<br />
soe in her course from the said coast for Bantam and comming neere the Island<br />
of Pullipanjan about foure or five leagues distance from Bantam Road<br />
found five saile of dutch shipps (which were in the service and Imployment<br />
of the dutch East India company) lying there, saving that one of them [?XXXX]<br />
them [?XXXX], and came some way along with the ''Jonathan'', and saith [?XXXX]<br />
[?XXXX]n'', and saith [?XXXX]<br />
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