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''Endeavour'' and her sayd ladeing there w … ''Endeavour'' and her sayd ladeing there were three oth? [PAGE CORNER MISSING]<br />
with wines comming from the Canaries and in sight of [PAGE CORNER MISSING]<br />
and of the sayd de La Roy And saith that demande being in? [PAGE CORNER MISSING]<br />
this deponent and others of the ''Endeavours'' Company why they [PAGE CORNER MISSING]<br />
their sayd shipp and ladeing and suffered the other shipps and their [PAGE CORNER MISSING]<br />
to passe, they being all English shipps, the sayd de La Roch his Chirurgion [PAGE CORNER MISSING]<br />
and boatswaine and others of his company who could and did speak<br />
English answered to this effect videlicet, that they had noe authority or<br />
Comission to seize the ''Endeavour'' or any English shipps or their ladeing<br />
but were constrayned soe to doe for that they were bound upon a long<br />
voyage to Mallegasca and the redd Seas and stood in neede of a<br />
Shipps ladeing of wine by reason they were hindered by Crosse<br />
windes and weather from takeing in their provisions of wine at Portugall<br />
as they intended to have done, and<br />
alsoe sayd that their Owners in France were Rich and able to<br />
make satisfaction for what they did, it being to supply their necessity<br />
being upon their employment, And further to this article hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 6th hee saith that hee alsoe hearde the sayd Chirurgion and boate<br />
swaine and others of the sayd de La Roche his Company who could and<br />
did speake English (after the seizure of the shipp ''Endeavour'') says,<br />
that they would not land the sayd Jope and Company nor any of<br />
them on the Christian Shoare because they should not carry news<br />
to England of the seizure of the sayd shipp ''Endeavour'' and her<br />
ladeing, and alsoe heard them say that they coud not unlade the<br />
sayd wines out of the ''Endeavour'' on board their own shipps and<br />
therefore they would take the shipp alsoe alonge with them, for their<br />
Owners were able to paye both for the shipp and and wines or to that effect<br />
And further to this article hee cannot depose /
To the 7th hee saith that after the surprizall of the sayd shipp<br />
''Endeavour'' hee heard divers of the sayd de La Roch his Company<br />
who could speake English and among others the Chirurgion and Boatswaine<br />
aforesayd saye that they mett with an other English shipp before they<br />
mett with the ''Endeavour'' and tooke her, but finding she had noe wines<br />
and that her ladeing consisted of pipe staves, they lett her goe again, and that<br />
they would not have medled with the ''Endeavour'' if her ladeing had not<br />
bin wines for that they knew there was pease with France before they<br />
betwixt England and France, and that they had endeavoured at Rochell and<br />
stayed there divers days before their comming from there to get letters<br />
of Marque against the English but could get none by reason the<br />
pease betwixt France and England was concluded or they spake<br />
words concluded or they spake<br />
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