The Dutch commannded him to bee goone from thence with the saide shalloppe unto the tent, where the rest of his Companye were. Whereuppon this deponent desired a note under the hand of the Governor of the said forte, that hee was forced to depte from thence with the said shalloppe. Otherwise (he tould them) the merchants would not give him his wages. And then the said Governor sett his hand to such a note as he desired; and then the said Governor and others of his companye came into the said

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shalloppe, and did stecke greene bowes about ber, and carryed a trumpetter with them, and rowed the said shallopp downe to the tent, where this exaidats coinpanye were. And by the waye the said trumpett was sounded, and the Dutche drancke a bottle of strongwaters of three or fower pints, and were very merrye. And further he cannott depose, savinge he sayeth, that the Governors name of the upper forte, belonginge to the Dutch, was one Master Huntum.^ To the third he sayeth, that by reason of the wrongs and injuries, donne by the Dutch unto the conipanye of the said shippe the William, the voyage of the said shippe was quite overthrowne, and the merchants which sett her forth and freighted her, have thereby susleyned dammage to the somme of foure thousand poundes sterlinge att the leaste (as bee verily beleeveth) for that theire was a greate quantitie of beaver skinnes and other furrs to be trade for there. And the natives of those places were a greate deale more willinge to trade with the English then with the Dutch, and sayeth, that if they had bine suffered to staye and trade there, and had trucked awaye all the goodes abord the said shippe, att the rate as they had for the goodes which they had trucked awaye before, the Dutch inforced them to depart from thence.