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which they had great need and that the pea … which they had great need and that the peace between England and ffrance<br />
was agreed upon before the came from ffrance, soe that they could not obtaine<br />
letters of marque against the English, though they had for severall dayes attended<br />
at Rochell in expectation to have procured the same, or words to the like effect. And<br />
further hee saith hee cannot depose./
To the 8th Article of the said Allegation hee saith That the said french Officers and<br />
Companie who were as aforesaid putt on board the said shipp ''Endeavour'' immediately<br />
after her said surprizall did declare and affirme to this deponent that the said french<br />
shipps were ordered and designed to goe for Lisbone in Portugall to have taken<br />
in their provision of wynes, from which designe they had bin diverted bye<br />
crosse and contrary wind and weather soe that they were necessitated to sayle<br />
towards the Canaries, where they expected to meet with shipps laden with<br />
wynes whereby they might be furnished and accomodated with the Commodity<br />
or words to that or the like effect And further hee cannot depose./
To the 9th Article hee saith That at or about the time of the surprizall and taking up the<br />
said shipp ''Endeavour'' the said La Roche his Companie did take away and<br />
plunder from this deponent and the rest of the said shipp ''Endeavours'' Companie of the<br />
greatest part of their wearing apparrell together with all their Sea Instruments<br />
and private adventures, whereof they utterly deprived them, The premises this<br />
deponent knoweth for that hee was an Eye wittnesse thereof and suffered therein together<br />
with others of his Companie And further cannot depose./
To the 10th hee saith That the said shipp the ''Endeavour'' at the time of such her<br />
surprizall and taking was really worth the summe of Two Thousand Five<br />
hundred pounds or thereabouts in this deponents judgement shee being a shipp of about two hundred tunne<br />
about five yeares old, having aboard her 16. peeces of Ordnance, and being every<br />
way very well fitted and furnished with tackle apparrell and all manner of<br />
necessaries, and that the Companies wages did and doe amount to about fower<br />
hundred pounds sterling and that the Cloathes, Sea instruments and private<br />
adventures whereof they were deprived and dispoyled as aforesaid were really<br />
worth the summe of three hundred and fifty pounds sterling or thereabouts as this<br />
deponent by his owne observation is in conscience fully convinced And further<br />
cannot depose./
To the 11th hee saith That the said Three hundred and thirteen pypes of<br />
wyne were really worth, and would have yeilded at this Port of London<br />
Thirty pounds per pipe cleare of all charges in case they had there safely<br />
arrived they being of the very best sort of Canarie wines which the said yeare<br />
<u>1655.</u> produced, and soe much wynes of the sort did yeild at and in this City of<br />
London at or about the time of the said surprizall. The premises hee declareth<br />
upon the grounds of knowledge predeposed, and by and upon the credible and constant<br />
information of Merchants of this place whoe then traded in the like commodities./
To the 12th hee saith that hee beleeveth That the said Robert Oxwicke and<br />
Companie Owners of the said shipp ''Endeavour'' have by meanes of her said surprizall<br />
and detention and by the want of their freight due for the voiage in question suffered<br />
very great dammage over and above their principall, which dammage hee beleeveth<br />
accounteth to fower hundred pounds sterling and upwards and that the said Jope and<br />
Companie of Mariners to the said shipp ''Endeavour'' belonging are likewise over<br />
above the losse of their principall endammaged to the summe or valew of<br />
about two hundred pounds sterling which hee beleeveth they might have benefitted<br />
in case they had not beene surprized and plundered as aforesaidbeene surprized and plundered as aforesaid +
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