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Commander hee being a frenchman and Subjec … Commander hee being a frenchman and Subject of the ffrench king, the said shipp [?the GUTTER]<br />
''Endeavour'' then being betwixt the Islands of the Teneriffe and the Palma, and the [?said GUTTER]<br />
french shipps being, at their Companies affirmed, bound upon a Merchant voiage<br />
to the East Indies. Of the premisses hee saith hee was an eye wittnesse, and is<br />
thereby well assured of the trueth thereof: And further cannot depose
To the 4th hee saith That it was about two of the clorcke in the night when the said<br />
french shipps first mett with and haled the said shipp. ''Endeavour'' and [XXX GUTTER]<br />
the Master and Companie of the said shipp to stryke their sailes and to hoiste out<br />
their boat and goe on board the said ffrench Commanderwhich by reason of the<br />
unseasonable time of the night they refused to doe and the next morning the [XXX GUTTER]<br />
de La Roch and Companie commanded them againe to come on board her, [?whereupon GUTTER]<br />
the said William Jope the Master sent some of his companie on board the<br />
said De La Roche the french Admirall his shipp but the said De La Roche<br />
being not satisfied therewith sent the boate back againe to fetch the said [?Master GUTTER]<br />
on board him, which was accordingly done and thereupon about 24 of the<br />
said shipp the ''Endeavours'' Companie were by the said frenchmen fetcht out of<br />
her and distributed with the said ffrench shipps, thirtie men or thereabouts of<br />
the french being putt on board her, and only fower of her owne Companie<br />
remaining in her, And this deponent saith that the said shipp ''Endeavour''<br />
was by the said surprizers brought to the coast of Guiney where they<br />
landed this deponent and the said Master and twelve other Englishmen<br />
at a place called Trevierro amongst the barbarous Negroes leaving them<br />
onely one pipe of wyne and about one hundred weight of biskett for<br />
their sustenance, at which place this deponent and the other English soe sett on<br />
shoare continued for about 15. weekes in quiet danger of their lives<br />
and at last by Gods good providence mett with an opportunity of transporta=<br />
tion for England in a flemmish vessell, The premisses hee saith hee knoweth<br />
by sadd experience being participant in the said suffering and danger and seeing and well observing the passages predeposed And<br />
further he cannot depose:/
To the fifth Article of the said Allegation hee saith That at the time of the<br />
surprizall of the shipp ''Endeavour'' there were three other shipps Laden with wynes<br />
and there coming from the Canaries bound alsoe for the Port of London which [?were GUTTER]<br />
within a league or thereabouts and in sight of the said shipp the ''Endeavour'' and of the<br />
said de La Roche and the other french shipps, And that this deponents precontest [?John GUTTER]<br />
Bowers Boateswaine of the said shipp ''Endeavour'' at the time of the said shipps<br />
surprizall asked the french Pilott and others that came on board with him [?why GUTTER]<br />
they did not aswell surprize and take the said three other shipps as the said [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
to which hee and they answered they could take them if they were soe minded<br />
and this Deponent with others of the said ''Endeavours''<br />
Companie being afterwards disposed of aboard the french Vice Admiralls<br />
of the said french flete heard severall of the said Vice Admirall<br />
Companie confesse and affirme that the said french shipps had noe<br />
Commission at all to surprize or take any English shipps or goods of<br />
premissis hee saith hee this deponent was an eye wittnesse and<br />
heard the words predeposed or the like in effort spoken as aforesaid And<br />
further cannot Depose:-/
To the 6th and 7th Articles of the said Allegation hee saith That hee this deponent<br />
(being That hee this deponent<br />
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