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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 Roche
and replied that his Owner or Imployer videlicet Monsieur de Meilleraye or the
Mar'echal 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
they desired the said De la Roche that they might have the boate belonging
to the said shipp the Endeavour 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 notices 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 the 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 certaine knowledge
by personall and sadd experience. And sotherwise cannot depose:

To the 7th Article of the said allegation hee saith that after the surprizall
of the said shipp Endeavour and her lading by the said De la Roche and
Companie the said De la Roche in the presence and hearing of this deponent and
others declared and affirmed , that the said french fleet under his Command
had in a their course from France mett 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 the
said La Roche the declared the place betwixt France and England was
agreed and concluded upon, and that hee the said La Roche and Companie had
stayd severall daies in Rochell in expectation of letters of marque against the English but
were finally necessitated to depart without them for that as hee the said La Roche
said the king of France would then grant no letters of marque or Reprizall
against the English or words to that or the like effect All which was spoken in and
onbord the said De la Roche his Admirall=shipp in the hearing of this deponent
and one John Caseby an English Merchant: who came passenger in the said
shipp Endeavour and as then brought and remaining on bord the said de la Roche
his shipp:/:-

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