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To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
… To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that hee hath bin about two<br />
monethes in possession of the said ship as Commander thereof, and saith<br />
they sawe two thousand ffrancks (part of the summe payable for the<br />
said shipp) paid by the said Peter Goret to the said Vincent Aufrey at the<br />
house of the said Peter in Saint Malo's about two yeares since after the<br />
building of the said shipp was finished and there shee was launched,<br />
and saith shee belongeth wholly to the said Peter and Stephen Goret<br />
who hee saith were and subjects of the king of ffrance, And otherwise<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition whereunto where hee referreth himselfe hee cannot<br />
despose.
To the second hee saith that the selling and buying of the said shipp being<br />
soe made and agreed on by and betweene the said persons, this deponent<br />
was present and heard the discussions given to the Notary for the drawing<br />
the Act or Instrument of the said sale, and when it was finished and<br />
passed their deponent sawe the same, and saith is was of the whole shipp,<br />
And otherwise cannot answere saving as aforesaid.
To the third hee saith the said shipp was and is the burthen of seaventie<br />
tonnes or thereabouts, and was victualled at Saint Malo's for six monethes,<br />
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<br />
said shipp the said voyage when shee was seized, being all of the company<br />
saving one of them was a passenger a merchant of holland, and<br />
otherwise hee cannot answer saving his foregoeing deposition, whereunto<br />
hee referreth himselfe.
To the fifth hee saith the said shipp had six hundred pounds of powder<br />
or thereabouts aboard at the time of the said seizure, twelve muskets and<br />
firelocks, sixe pistolls, eight peeces of iron canon, and two brasse guns, and<br />
foure mu[?XXXXXe]rs, and noe horses, nor any other ammunition, saving meerly<br />
for the shipps service.
To the sixth hee saith the said shipp the ''don de dieu'' departed and proceeded<br />
on the present voyage for the ports and places aforesaid<br />
on or about the first of december last new stile, thense bound first for<br />
Rosco, at which time of setting one and proceeding hee saith the said<br />
Peter and Stephen Goret and their deponent and others well knew and<br />
understood that the ffleete of this Commonwealth was before Cadiz and<br />
Saint Lucar or thereabouts, and visited all such shipps as were bound into<br />
either of those places.
To the seventh Interrogatorie and the papers now shewed unto him, hee<br />
saith hee verily beleveeth then the said papers were all aboard and<br />
seized in his said ship, And otherwise cannot answer, nor knoweth<br />
saving his bills and and factories and french passes are true<br />
but for the generalitie of the papers hee doth not know the contents<br />
of them being letters which hee had sealed up.
To the last hee saith hee well knoweth the interrogated Arnold P[?o]st<br />
living at Cadiz, and saith hee is a hollander of Amsterdam<br />
where this deponent hath seene and bin acquainted with him<br />
and<br />
and hath alsoe seene him at Cadiz where hee is a<br />
factor, but is a subiect of the States of the United Netherlands, And<br />
otherwise cannot depose.
Repeated before the two Judges in Court.
Francois gerváis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]rt.
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