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and Companie did againe command the said Jope and some of his Companie to come on board him
whereupon the said William Jope sent some of his Companie on board the said de la
Roche his shipp, and the said la Roche not being satisfied therewith sent for the said Jope
personally to come on board him, and to bring with him his papers to showe whether
hee was bound, and accordingly the said Master William Jope went aboard the said
La Roche his shipp, and thereupon the said de la Roche fetched away Twenty
fower or thereabouts of the Companie of the said shipp Endeavour, which hee caused
be putt on board the said french shipps, Leaving onely this deponent and three others
of the said Endeavours Companie on board her, and putt about thirty of the french
shipps Companie into her, and afterwards were brought the said shipp and her lading
for Guiney and neere the Cape de verd sett this deponent and about thirteene English
men more on shoare at a place called Triviesto upon or about the first day of
december 1655. English style, leaving them only one pipe of wyne and about
one hundred weight of biskett for their sustenance where this deponent and the other
Englishmen of his Companie staied about 15 weeks before they could meet with any
convenience of transportation for England, they being for all that time in great
hazard and danger and had there undoubtedly perished, if they had not by the great providence
of God there mett with and been releeved certaine Portuguese Merchants
then there residing; the premises hee knoweth by sadd experience being an
eyewittnesse of and participant in the same. And further cannot depose
saving that the said de la Roche and Companie did thence carrie away the said
shipp Endeavour and her said ladeing they being bound as aforesaid to the East Indies
or redd sea hee whether as hee beleeveth they brought the said shipp and lading.

To the 5th Article of the said Allegation this deponent saith That at the time of
surprizall of the said shipp Endeavour and lading by the said de la Roche and
Companie, there were three other shipps laden with wynes comeing from the
Canarie Islands in Companie with the said shipp and within the sight of her
and of the said de la Roche and Companie, and this deponent asking the frenchman
was putt in Command of and aboard the said shipp Endeavour upon such her surprizall
why they had soe surprized and taken her, leaving the said three other shipps, hee and
others of the said frenchmen soe putt on board her answered, that they had noe
Commission to seize the said shipp Endeavour nor any other English shipp but
they were necessitated soe to doe being, as they sayd bound for Mallegasca or the redd sea
wanting a quantity of wyne for their provision and further said that hee or [XXX GUTTER]
beleeved that their Owners; who were rich and able men must make or give
satisfaction for the said shipp Endeavour and her lading or words to that
like effect. The premises hee knoweth and deposeth for and upon the reason
grounds before expressed. And further cannot depose./

To the 6th Article of the said Allegation hee saith That the said de la
Roche Captain and Commander of the said french shipps caused this deponent and
said Master William Jopp and twelve others of his Companie to bee putt on shore
at Trivisca aforesaid the amongst the Barbarous Negroes, but what discourse passed
between the said la Roche and Jopp this deponent saith hee knoweth not for that
remained in and aboard the said shipp Endeavour And further cannot depose

To the 7th hee saith That after the surpizall and taking of the said shipp
Endeavour and her lading as aforesaid the Officer and other frenchmen were
putt on board her declared to this deponent and others of his Companie then alsoe [XXX GUTTER]
and being on board her, That they had in their Course from france mett with
other English shipps, and had taken one of them, and had lett her goe againe
and that they had no intention to have medled with or interrupted the said
shipp Endeavour, if she had not bin laden, as she was with wines
(which