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To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that hee hath bin about two
monethes in possession of the said ship as Commander thereof, and saith
they sawe two thousand ffrancks (part of the summe payable for the
said shipp) paid by the said Peter Goret to the said Vincent Aufrey at the
house of the said Peter in Saint Malo's about two yeares since after the
building of the said shipp was finished and there shee was launched,
and saith shee belongeth wholly to the said Peter and Stephen Goret
who hee saith were and subjects of the king of ffrance, And otherwise
saving his foregoeing deposition whereunto where hee referreth himselfe hee cannot
despose.

To the second hee saith that the selling and buying of the said shipp being
soe made and agreed on by and betweene the said persons, this deponent
was present and heard the discussions given to the Notary for the drawing
the Act or Instrument of the said sale, and when it was finished and
passed their deponent sawe the same, and saith is was of the whole shipp,
And otherwise cannot answere saving as aforesaid.

To the third hee saith the said shipp was and is the burthen of seaventie
tonnes or thereabouts, and was victualled at Saint Malo's for six monethes,
with bread, beere, Sider, porke, wines, beefe fish, and other necessarie provisions.

To the fourth hee saith there were six and twenty men in the
said shipp the said voyage when shee was seized, being all of the company
saving one of them was a passenger a merchant of holland, and
otherwise hee cannot answer saving his foregoeing deposition, whereunto
hee referreth himselfe.

To the fifth hee saith the said shipp had six hundred pounds of powder
or thereabouts aboard at the time of the said seizure, twelve muskets and
firelocks, sixe pistolls, eight peeces of iron canon, and two brasse guns, and
foure mu[?XXXXXe]rs, and noe horses, nor any other ammunition, saving meerly
for the shipps service.

To the sixth hee saith the said shipp the don de dieu departed and proceeded
on the present voyage for the ports and places aforesaid
on or about the first of december last new stile, thense bound first for
Rosco, at which time of setting one and proceeding hee saith the said
Peter and Stephen Goret and their deponent and others well knew and
understood that the ffleete of this Commonwealth was before Cadiz and
Saint Lucar or thereabouts, and visited all such shipps as were bound into
either of those places.

To the seventh Interrogatorie and the papers now shewed unto him, hee
saith hee verily beleveeth then the said papers were all aboard and
seized in his said ship, And otherwise cannot answer, nor knoweth
saving his bills and and factories and french passes are true
but for the generalitie of the papers hee doth not know the contents
of them being letters which hee had sealed up.

To the last hee saith hee well knoweth the interrogated Arnold P[?o]st
living at Cadiz, and saith hee is a hollander of Amsterdam
where this deponent hath seene and bin acquainted with him
and
and hath alsoe seene him at Cadiz where hee is a
factor, but is a subiect of the States of the United Netherlands, And
otherwise cannot depose.

Repeated before the two Judges in Court.

Francois gerváis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]