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and Companie did againe command the said J … and Companie did againe command the said Jope and some of his Companie to come on board him<br />
whereupon the said William Jope sent some of his Companie on board the said de la<br />
Roche his shipp, and the said la Roche not being satisfied therewith sent for the said Jope<br />
personally to come on board him, and to bring with him his papers to showe whether<br />
hee was bound, and accordingly the said Master William Jope went aboard the said<br />
La Roche his shipp, and thereupon the said de la Roche fetched away Twenty<br />
fower or thereabouts of the Companie of the said shipp ''Endeavour'', which hee caused<br />
be putt on board the said french shipps, Leaving onely this deponent and three others<br />
of the said ''Endeavours'' Companie on board her, and putt about thirty of the french<br />
shipps Companie into her, and afterwards were brought the said shipp and her lading<br />
for Guiney and neere the Cape de verd sett this deponent and about thirteene English<br />
men more on shoare at a place called Triviesto upon or about the first day of<br />
december <u>1655.</u> English style, leaving them only one pipe of wyne and about<br />
one hundred weight of biskett for their sustenance where this deponent and the other<br />
Englishmen of his Companie staied about 15 weeks before they could meet with any<br />
convenience of transportation for England, they being for all that time in great<br />
hazard and danger and had there undoubtedly perished, if they had not by the great providence<br />
of God there mett with and been releeved certaine Portuguese Merchants<br />
then there residing; the premises hee knoweth by sadd experience being an<br />
eyewittnesse of and participant in the same. And further cannot depose<br />
saving that the said de la Roche and Companie did thence carrie away the said<br />
shipp ''Endeavour'' and her said ladeing they being bound as aforesaid to the East Indies<br />
or redd sea hee whether as hee beleeveth they brought the said shipp and lading.
To the 5th Article of the said Allegation this deponent saith That at the time of<br />
surprizall of the said shipp ''Endeavour'' and lading by the said de la Roche and<br />
Companie, there were three other shipps laden with wynes comeing from the<br />
Canarie Islands in Companie with the said shipp and within the sight of her<br />
and of the said de la Roche and Companie, and this deponent asking the frenchman<br />
was putt in Command of and aboard the said shipp ''Endeavour'' upon such her surprizall<br />
why they had soe surprized and taken her, leaving the said three other shipps, hee and<br />
others of the said frenchmen soe putt on board her answered, that they had noe<br />
Commission to seize the said shipp ''Endeavour'' nor any other English shipp but<br />
they were necessitated soe to doe being, as they sayd bound for Mallegasca or the redd sea<br />
wanting a quantity of wyne for their provision and further said that hee or [XXX GUTTER]<br />
beleeved that their Owners; who were rich and able men must make or give<br />
satisfaction for the said shipp ''Endeavour'' and her lading or words to that<br />
like effect. The premises hee knoweth and deposeth for and upon the reason<br />
grounds before expressed. And further cannot depose./
To the 6th Article of the said Allegation hee saith That the said de la<br />
Roche Captain and Commander of the said french shipps caused this deponent and<br />
said Master William Jopp and twelve others of his Companie to bee putt on shore<br />
at Trivisca aforesaid the amongst the Barbarous Negroes, but what discourse passed<br />
between the said la Roche and Jopp this deponent saith hee knoweth not for that<br />
remained in and aboard the said shipp ''Endeavour'' And further cannot depose
To the 7th hee saith That after the surpizall and taking of the said shipp<br />
''Endeavour'' and her lading as aforesaid the Officer and other frenchmen were<br />
putt on board her declared to this deponent and others of his Companie then alsoe [XXX GUTTER]<br />
and being on board her, That they had in their Course from france mett with<br />
other English shipps, and had taken one of them, and had lett her goe againe<br />
and that they had no intention to have medled with or interrupted the said<br />
shipp ''Endeavour'', if she had not bin laden, as she was with wines<br />
(which, as she was with wines<br />
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