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<document-start>
1. The tenth of September 1657.
2. <margin value="Left">A referense from the Counsell to}
3. the Hudges examination touching the}
4. Courard ffliboate.}</margin>
5. Exámined upon a paper annexed to an order of the Counsell
6. of the 29 of September 1657 touching a ffliboate called
7. the Conrard taken by a Spanish ffrigot and retaken by
8. the Constant Warwick.
9. <margin value="Left">for the State. dt.</margin>
10. John Guerouilt of Roane in ffranse clerke of
11. Jaques Maurice Tabellion a Notary of Roane, aged
12. 4 22 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right Worshippfull
13. John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the Judges of the
14. high Court of the Admiraltie and exámined upon the said
15. paper saith as followeth.
16. That the first day of June last past (new stile) Monsieur du Quesne
17. of the yonger of deep departed from the Roade of Conquerardan in
18. Bretany in a smale fliboate of sixe Gunns and three Murtherers called
19. the Conrard, belonging to his brother Abraham du Quesne of Paris
20. set forth as a private man of warr to crosse upon the coast of
21. Galicia,
22. , and that Stephen de
23. Quesne was commander of the said fliboate, but the designe of going
24. thither to crosse, was not declared to this deponent the Purser of the said
25. ffliboate. And saith that the said ffliboate being come to Belle Isle
26. was met with two English men of warr belonging to this State, the one called
27. the Constant Warwick commanded by Captaine vessey of about 30 peeces
28. of ordnance; and the other the Griffin of dartmouth, by whom hee the
29. said Captaine du Quesne came with his said fliboate to an anchor, and
30. remained there ˹about a day and halfe˺, during which ˹time˺ hee had
31. acquaintance and familiaritie with them, And that having in
32. that space gotten intelligense of some Biscainers that were said
33. to be about the Iles of havXX and hedir, hee went aboard the
34. said English man of warr, and thereupon they went injustly to take
35. and seize them, and saith that the places about the said Iles are full
36. of rocks and dangerous to any that doe and well know them,
37. and that the Biscainers are accustomed to skulke there with their small
38. vessells, because greate vessells cannot or but hardly come at them.
39. And that upon the approach of the said English men of warr and fliboate
40. (which they made severall waies) a small frigot of the Biscainers
41. seeing noe hopes of escape, ran ashore on the maine, where her
42. Spanish company XXXXed out and deserted her, and hide themselves ashore,
43. and that the English fetcht off the said Biscay frigot (at such time as
44. the fliboates shallop ˹and company was come to fetch them˺ doe the same) and put
45. her to sea, having taken therein three peeces of ordinance and some
46. other armes. And that afterwards the said English Captaines with
47. their vessells going for the Bay of Morbihan, left the said monsieur du
48. Quesent and his said vessell, who came to an anchor about the said Ila
49. Ilands and remained there from the evening of the 5th to the 6th of June
50. on which sixeth of June about two in the afternoone departing thense to goe
51. out to sea, hee was about 7 of the clock that evening about three
52. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">leagues</margin>
53. <margin value="Left">the stroakes under the}
54. lines were made by doctor}
55. Godolphin.}</margin>
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