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Should pay for the said shipp the Endeavour: and her said lading of wynes, and
make satisfaction for the same to the respective Owners thereof, the said De La Rorche
and replied that his Owner or Imployer videlicet Monsieur de Meilleraye or the
Marechal de la Meilleraye in France was rich and able enough and must, as hee, videlicet the said
De La Roche beleeved, pay and make satisfaction for the same, or words to that or
the like effect: The premisses hee saith, That hee this deponent personally saw and
heard, and therefore knoweth and deposeth the same for a certaine trueth
And otherwise cannot depose:-/

To the sixth Article hee saith, That after the taking and surprizing of the
said shipp Endeavour: and Lading, this deponent and others of
his companie being
as aforesaid in and aboard the said la Roche his Admirall shipp, did
earnestly begg and entreat yee said De la Roche to
lett them be Landed on some
of the Canarie islands from which they were then not
farr remote, and afterwards
that they desired the said De la Roche
that they might have the boate belonging
to the said shipp the Endeavor to bring them ashoare at the Cape de Verd Islands, but
the said De la Roche pemptorily denyed to doe or permitt either of those their
humble earnest entreaties, and said hee would not Land this deponent and
Companye nor any of them on the Christian shore, because they should not
carry newes and notises to England what
was become of the said shipp and her Lading
or words tending to and importing that or the like effect. Hee further
saith that
the said De la Roche then also told this deponent and
others of his company then on
bord him, that hee and his Companie could not conveniently unladen
the said wynes
out of the said shipp Endeavour into the said french
shipps, and that therefore
they would carry ye said shipp along with them and that his said Owner or
Imployer was rich and sufficient enough to pay and make satisfaction both
for the said shipp Endeavor and her Lading or words of the
same or the like
purport: The premisses this deponent: declared to be true of
his containe knowledge
by pesonall and sadd experience. And striked through
otherwise cannot depose:

To the 7th Article of the said allegation hee saith that after ye
surpreviall
of the said shipp Endeavor and her lading by the said
De la Voche and
companine the said De la Voche in the presence and hearing of this depo: and
others declared and affirmed , that the said french fleet under his
dounnannch
had in a hour course from France wett with
other English shipps, one
whereof they had surprized and taken and afterwards lett her goe free
and had not plundered nor taken away or out of her any thing considerable
and that hee would not have midred with molested or
seized the said shipp
Endeavour, if her then lading had not consisted in wynes,
for that as hee ye
said La Voche the declared the place betwixt
France and England was
agreed and fourludid upon, and that hee the said
La Voche and douipauid has
stayed severall daies in Vachell in expectation of
letters of ˹against the English˺ marquer but
were finally udcessisated to depo without them for that
as heeye said La voche
said the king of France would ˹then ˺ grant no
letters of marque or veprisall
against the English or words to that or the like ˹effect˺ All which
was spoken in and
onbord the said shipp De la Voche his admirall shipp
in the hearing of the depo:
and one John Dasorby an english merchant: who came
passeng in the said
shipp Endeavor and as then brought remaining on bord the
said De la Voche

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