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The second of November 1657. humphreyes and others ágainst the ''Willing Minde''} and against da Grates and other.} Exámined upon the allegation given in on behalfe of the said de Grates and others. '''Row dt.''' '''.4.''' '''Oliver Masson''' of henboure in ffrance Mariner, aged 36 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined. To the first second and third árticles of the said allegation, and to the schedule mentioned in the said second article hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth the vessell called the Hellena arlate and since (as hee hath understood) called the Willing Minde, and hath credibly heard and beleeveth that shee was taken by the arlate Captaine William da Bois-Hardy Sieur de la fforrest, a ffrenchman and subiect of the king of ffrance (whom this deponent alsoe well knoweth) from the Spaniards and brought into ffrance and condemned as is arlate for prize, and saith hee this exáminate formerly tooke out another copie of the originall of the paper mentioned in the said second article, being the adiudication of the said vessell, and saw the Greffier write the same from the originall, and verily beleeveth this to be alsoe a true copie, And well knew the arlate John Yvonn da ffebure Greffier of Auray, of whom this deponent saw make the foresaid copie that hee saw excerpted. And further deposeth that hee alsoe well knoweth the arlate William da Grats John Cherel and John Briart, who were and are commonly said and reputed to have bought the said vessell with her lading of iron after such adiudication or condemnation thereof for prize for the summe of six thousand six hundred pounds Livers Tournois. And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the fourth hee referreth him selfe to the paper therein mentioned and beleeveth the same to be true and otherwise cannot depose, saving as aforesaid. To the fifth, 6 and seaventh articles hee saith and deposeth that after such buying of the said shipp the ''Santa hellen'' by the said da [?Groots] and company aforesaid, namely in or about the moneth of October 1643 (about three monethes after the adiudication aforeaid) being in possession of the said vessell, put and constituted this deponent master of her, and hee then entred master upon her at Port Lewes in Bretany to goe thense to Rochell, and other parts on the coast of ffrance and thereabouts in the imployment of the said owners thereof, and after theis deponent had bin thirteene monethes or thereabouts master of her under the said owners da Grats, Cherell and Briart, and made them severall retournes therewith, (shee being freighted and imployed from L'une to L'une in their owne immediate [?XXXXX] and merchandizing) hee this deponent left her and then the said owners put one Salomon du Ponte master of her, and hee continued master of her alwaies after till her comming for England and was (as this deponent hath bin informed) arrested at Bristol, and saith the sad du Ponte and this deponent were and are subiects of the king of ffrance, and saith the said owners put three peeces of [?XXXX] or [?XXXXX] into
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