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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]
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