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French king, the same being bound for the … French king, the same being bound for the East Indies. The premisses hee knoweth<br />
to be true for the reasons predeposed being in the quality of Master as aforesaid<br />
present at and in the same and entring the day of the said seizure into his memoriall whilest hee this deponent was on board the said French Admirall And further cannot depose.
To the 4th Article of the said allegation this deponent saith that the said<br />
La Roche meeting as aforesaid with the said shipp the ''Endeavour'' and her lading<br />
commanded him this deponent and Companie to stryke their sailes and to hoyst<br />
their boate and came on board him the said de la Roche being the Admirall of<br />
the said french fleete, which this deponent in regard it was then night<br />
refused to doe and the next morning the said La Roche againe commanded this<br />
deponent and some of his Companie to come on bord him, whereupon this deponent<br />
sent some of his companie on bord the said French Admirall, wherewith the said<br />
de La Roche not being satisfied commanded and sent for this deponent in person to<br />
come on bord him and to bring his shipp papers with him, which this deponent<br />
accordingly did, and being soo came on bord the said La Roche told him that his the<br />
Deponent said shipp and lading were his prize, And thereupon the said de La<br />
Roche caused about 24. men of the said shipp the ''Endeavours'' Companie to be<br />
fetcht from on bord her and to be disposed of and distributed into the said<br />
fower French shipps, leaving onely fower of her Owne Companye on bord<br />
her and putting into her about thirty of the French men belonging to the<br />
said French shipps, and then commanded and carryed away the said shipp<br />
''Endeavour'' and her lading for Guiney, whose this deponent and thirteen others<br />
of his Companie were by the said de La Roche his Command sett on<br />
shoare at a place called Triviesco upon or about the first day of december<br />
<u>1655.</u> The french men leaving and allowing them onely one pipe of wyne<br />
and about one hundred weight of biskett for their sustenance, att or neere<br />
which place of Triviesco this deponent and Companie stayed about fifteene<br />
weekes in great danger of their lives before they could meet with any oportunity of transportation for<br />
England, and the said de La Roche and Companie carryed away the said<br />
shipp ''Endeavour'' and her lading and the rest of her Companie to or towards<br />
the East Indies at aforesaid: Of the premisses hee saith hee hath full<br />
assurance and sadd experience, being as aforesaid Master of the said shipp<br />
''Endeavour'' and suffering as above it deduced: And otherwise hee cannot depose
To the 5th hee saith, That at the time when the said shipp ''Endeavour''<br />
and her lading were surprized and taken by the said de La Roche and<br />
Companie at it predeposed, there were three other Merchant shipps laden<br />
with wynes bound alsoe from the Canaries for this Port of London which<br />
shipps were in sight of this deponent and Companie and alsoe of the said<br />
de La Roche and Companie at the time aforesaid, And saith that hee the<br />
deponent being at aforesaid brought on bord the said de La Roche his shipp<br />
did order and demand of him the said de La Roche why hee and his Companie<br />
did surprize and take the said shipp ''Endeavour'' and her lading and lett the<br />
the said other three shipps without any molestation to which the said de<br />
La Roche answered, that hee had noe Comission to doe what hee did [?in GUTTER]<br />
the said shipp ''Endeavour'' or any other English shipp, but that hee and Companie [XXX GUTTER]<br />
his Commannd were necessitated soe to doe, for that they were destitute of [?a GUTTER]<br />
shipps lading of wynes for their necessary provisions, they being at hee [?said GUTTER]<br />
bound upon and a long and tedious voyage,videlicet: for Mallegasca or the [?redd GUTTER]<br />
Seas or words to that or the like effect And the said de La Roche being then alsoe asked by this deponent who<br />
(shouldd by this deponent who<br />
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