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commanded the sayd Jope and some of his Co … commanded the sayd Jope and some of his Company to come<br />
a board him thereupon, the sayd Jope caused this deponent<br />
and some others of the ''Endeavours'' Company videlicet John Chisill a masters mate John dawling Boatswaine as mate and Thomas ffowle and Richard Sherrard to goe on board the sayd de la Roche<br />
his shipp and they being come on board him the sayd de la Roche was not was not therewith<br />
satisfied, but sent againe and Commanded the sayd Jope to come on board<br />
and bring his papers with him to show whether hee was bound, and the sayd<br />
Jope in obedience thereto came on board him and brought his papers and<br />
showed the sayd de la Roch thereby that his sayd shipp was an English shipp<br />
bound for London which notwithstanding the sayd de la Roche was not<br />
satisfied therewith, but to be the sayd Jope (as the Chirurgion of the sayd de<br />
La Roch his shipp and others of the sayd shipps company who could and<br />
did speake English told this deponent) that his the sayd Jopes shipp the [''En='' GUTTER]<br />
''deavour'' and her sayd ladeing were his the sayd de La Roche his prize<br />
And of this deponents sight and knowledge the sayd de la Roche thereupon<br />
caused twenty fower more of the ''Endeavours'' Company to be fetched from on<br />
board her and put them into his fower french shipps and left only fower<br />
of the ''Endeavours'' Company on board her, and put thirty ffrench men<br />
on board the ''Endeavour'' and soe carried the sayd shipp ''Endeavour'' and<br />
her sayd ladeing for Ginney where hee caused the sayd Jope and thirteen<br />
more of the ''Endeavours'' Company in the moneth of december 1655 to bee<br />
put on shoare amongst the Moores at a place called Triviese and left<br />
them there in great perill and hazard of their lives by the Moores and<br />
left them only one pipe of wine and a smale quantitie videlicet about one<br />
hundred weight of biskett to susteigne them selves with, this hee<br />
deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge, And hee further saith that<br />
the sayd de La Roch carried the sayd shipp ''Endeavour'' and her ladeing<br />
thense (with this deponent and others of the ''Endeavours'' Company) towards<br />
the East Indies, and by the way offered this deponent and others of the<br />
sayd shipps Company that if they would goe with him his whole voyage<br />
hee would allow them such adventures as they had belonging to them<br />
selves on board the ''Endeavour'', and allowe them the like pay as they were<br />
to have had for their service in the ''Endeavour'' or to that effect, but presently<br />
after refused soo to doe, and (as the sayd Chirurgion and others of the<br />
sayd de La Roche his Company who spake English told this deponent<br />
sayd and threatned that hee would turne them on shoare like<br />
English doggs as they were on some Islands which was uninhabited<br />
whereupon this deponent understanding soe much watched his oportunity<br />
and hee and one John Westcott of the ''Endeavours'' Company<br />
in the night tyme put out such light matches as they found in the<br />
de La Roche his shipp and stripped off their cloathes and being<br />
a place called the ffrench mens baye in Gunney Swamme naked to shoare and here gott a boate and rowed to a place called Tumba about 7 leagues off there where an English<br />
colony is or factory planted and soe escaped out of<br />
sayd de La Roch his power And further to those articles hee cannot<br />
depose saving his subsequent deposition./
To the 5th hee saith that at such tyme as the sayd de La Roch seized the<br />
''Endeavour'' Roch seized the<br />
''Endeavour'' +
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