TO the first of the said Articles he saith, & deposeth by charge of his oath, that in the road of [ 1] Patany in the East India, vpon the seuenteenth day of Iuly, 1619. last past, the Samson, where∣of [ 30] this Examinant was Master, and the Hound belonging to the English Company, were force∣ably assaulted by three ships of the Hollanders (viz.) The Angell, the Morning Starre, and the Burgarboate, whereof Hendricke Iohnson was Commander, and after fiue Glasses fight two houres and a halfe, eleuen of the said ship the Samson, her men beeing slaine out-right, fiue dismem∣bred, and about thirtie otherwise wounded, Captaine Iordane being then in the said ship, the Samson, and Commander of her, caused a flagge of truce to be hung out; and sent this Exami∣nant in the Samsons Boate aboord the Flemmings, to treate with them for a peace, and at the hanging out of the said flagge of truce, and when this Examinant left the said Captaine Ior∣dane to goe aboord the Flemmings, he was well; but aboue halfe an houre after the said flagge of [ 40] truce was so hung out, and this Examinant was in parlee with the Flemmings about the said peace, Captaine Iordane not expecting any violence from the Flemmings during the said parlee, shewed himselfe aboord the Samson before the maine Mast vpon the gratings, where the Flem∣mings espying him, most treacherously and cruelly shot at him with a Musket, and shot him in∣to the bodie neere the heart, of which wound hee dyed within halfe an houre after. And this he saith by charge of his Oath.
To the second he saith, That after the said ships, the Samson and the Hound were surprised [ 2] by the Hollanders in the said fight at Patany, as aforesaid, the greatest part of their men, by the command of the Dutch, were brought aboord the Angell their Admirall: and there notwith∣standing, diuers of them in the said fight were much burnt with Gun-powder, and wounded with splinters, and thereby suffered miserable torment, yet they the said Dutch most vnchri∣stianly [ 50] and inhumanely caused and forced them to put their legges downe through the gratings, and so se••zed them, and tyed them to the Capsten Barres, insomuch that still as any man had oc∣casion to goe and ease himselfe, his legges were so swelled by reason of the extraordinary hard tying of them, that the Carpenter was alwayes fetched to make bigger the holes, at which they were put downe to get out their legges againe. And this hee saith by charge of his Oath is most true.
To the third he saith, That he knoweth that the Dutch at Iacatra, doe cause all China men, [ 3] residing and bartering there, to pay monethly sixe shillings vpon a head▪ or else you shall not sell any commoditie there to the English, and this he hath seene diuers of China men pay at Iacatra.
To the fourth he saith, That vpon the third day of March last was twelue moneth, aboord [ 60] th•• new Zealand then riding in Bantam Roade, this Examinant, with three or foure others, did heare one Cl••se Derickson, then vpper stearsman of the Dutch ship called the Southern-Indraught say, that the States in Holland had beene plotting that Warre betweene the English and the Dutch in the Indie seuen yeares before.