IV.
9 (19) Novembris 1629.
Nicholas Blundell of Deepe in France, gent. aged 22 yeares or thereaboutes, sworne as aforesayde sayeth as followeth.
To the first Interrogatory he sayeth That he and the rest of the French taken by Captaine Kirke at Caneda have bin well used and intreated by him in the best manner that he could and as well as himselfe, and hath not bin dealt with to speake any thing more then truth.
To the second and third he sayeth That he was in the Fort of Cabecke when it was taken by Captaine Kirke, and he sayeth that there were then in the sayde fort two greate peeces of Iron Ordnance, but what other munition, goodes or marchandizes, were then [in] that fort or the habitacion thereof he cannott expresse, livinge as a private gentleman to his fashion Ac aliter nescit.
To the fourth he sayeth That there was not any victuall or ordinary susteynance for men in the sayde fort at the tyme of the takinge thereof they havinge lived about a month or six weekes before, only uppon bitter rootes.
To the fifth he cannott depose.
To the last he sayeth that those in the Interrogate pinnace and all the rest of the people of the sayde fort and habitacion except sixteene were sent away, some to goe for France, and the rest to be releived amongst the Salvages in the country. (State Paper Office, Colonial Series, vol. V, art. 36.)