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Should pay for the said shipp the ''Endeav … Should pay for the said shipp the ''Endeavour'' and her said lading of wynes, and<br />
make satisfaction for the same to the respective Owners thereof, the said de La Roche<br />
and replied that his Owner or Imployer videlicet Monsieur de Meilleraye or the<br />
Mar'echal de la Meilleraye in France was rich and able enough and must, as hee, videlicet the said<br />
de La Roche beleeved, pay and make satisfaction for the same, or words to that or<br />
the like effect: The premisses hee saith, That hee this deponent personally saw and<br />
heard, and therefore knoweth and deposeth the same for a certaine trueth<br />
And otherwise cannot depose:-/
To the sixth Article hee saith, That after the taking and surprizing of the<br />
said shipp ''Endeavour'' and lading, this deponent and others of his companie being<br />
as aforesaid in and aboard the said la Roche his Admirall shipp, did<br />
earnestly begg and entreat the said de la Roche to lett them be landed on some<br />
of the Canarie islands from which they were then not farr remote, and afterwards<br />
they desired the said de la Roche that they might have the boate belonging<br />
to the said shipp the ''Endeavour'' to bring them ashoare at the Cape de Verd Islands, but<br />
the said de la Roche pemptorily denyed to doe or permitt either of those their<br />
humble earnest entreaties, and said hee would not land this deponent and<br />
Companye nor any of them on the Christian shore, because they should not<br />
carry newes and notices to England what was become of the said shipp and her lading<br />
or words tending to and importing that or the like effect. Hee further saith that<br />
the said De la Roche then also told this deponent and others of his company then on<br />
bord him, that hee and his Companie could not conveniently unladen the said wynes<br />
out of the said shipp ''Endeavour'' into the said french shipps, and that therefore<br />
they would carry the said shipp along with them and that his said Owner or<br />
Imployer was rich and sufficient enough to pay and make satisfaction both<br />
for the said shipp ''Endeavour'' and her Lading or words of the same or the like<br />
purport: The premisses this deponent declared to be true of his certaine knowledge<br />
by personall and sadd experience. And sotherwise cannot depose:
To the 7th Article of the said allegation hee saith that after the surprizall<br />
of the said shipp ''Endeavour'' and her lading by the said de la Roche and<br />
Companie the said de la Roche in the presence and hearing of this deponent and<br />
others declared and affirmed, that the said french fleet under his Command<br />
had in a their course from France mett with other English shipps, one<br />
whereof they had surprized and taken and afterwards lett her goe free<br />
and had not plundered nor taken away or out of her any thing considerable<br />
and that hee would not have medled with molested or seized the said shipp<br />
''Endeavour'', if her then lading had not consisted in wynes, for that as hee the<br />
said La Roche the declared the place betwixt France and England was<br />
agreed and concluded upon, and that hee the said La Roche and Companie had<br />
stayd severall daies in Rochell in expectation of letters of marque against the English but<br />
were finally necessitated to depart without them for that as hee the said La Roche<br />
said the king of France would then grant no letters of marque or Reprizall<br />
against the English or words to that or the like effect All which was spoken in and<br />
onbord the said de la Roche his Admirall=shipp in the hearing of this deponent<br />
and one John Caseby an English Merchant: who came passenger in the said<br />
shipp ''Endeavour'' and as then brought and remaining on bord the said de la Roche<br />
his shipp:/:-said de la Roche<br />
his shipp:/:- +
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