III.

9 (19) Novembris 1629.

Eustacie Boule of Paris in France gent. aged twenty nyne yeares or thereabouts sworne as aforesayde sayeth as followeth.

To the first Interrogatory he sayeth that, those Frenchmen which Captaine Kirke tooke at Canada and brought home with him in his shippe have bin very well used by him, but this examinate beinge putt into another shippe called the William was at first. some thinge ill used by the company of that shippe, but uppon complaint thereof to Captaine Kirke he caused him to be better used. And he hath not (as he sayeth) bin moved to depose any thinge but truth.

To the second and third he sayeth That he was taken in the Shallopp the Coquinna before the fort was taken, but sayeth that he knoweth that there were in the interr^t Forte three or fower brasse peeces of Ordnance, twoe iron peeces of ordinance, some musketts and other municion, the perticulers whereof he cannot expresse nor cann he expresse what quantety of goodes were then in that fort or habitacion but he heard that there were then in the habitacion a quantetye of beavers, knifes and Iron shaftes, and he hath heard that part of the munition of the sayd fort did belonge to the French Kinge, and the rest thereof to Mounsr. de Cane, Mounsr. Dolliew, Mounsr. Donovien, Mounsr. Harvey,

4/1416Mounsr. Deyerton, Mounsr. de Shanne [⁸³⁴] and other French merchants and that the beavers knifes and shafts aforesayde belonged to Mounsr. de Cane in particuler ac aliter nescit.

Note 834: [(retour) ]

Deschênes.

To the fourth he sayeth That they in the fort aforesayde at the tyme of theire takinge fedd only uppon rootes and had noe other sustenance.

To the fifth and sixte he sayeth That Mounsr. Shamplye [⁸³⁵] caused this examinate with twenty nyne persons more, men woemen and children to imbarque themselves in the Interrogate Pinnace and gave this examinate order to carrye them to Gaspie and there to leave them twenty of them amongst the savages to get victualls amongst them and to give them two coates of beaver a peece to buy victualles with, and with the rest to seeke passage for France to make knowne in what necessitye they in the Fort were, And this he affirmeth uppon his oath to be true who was Captayne of the sayde Shalloppe. (State Paper Office, Colonial Papers, vol. V, art. 35.)

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Champlain.