Palmer. “No.”
Kidd. “It is in vain to ask any questions.”
Lord Chief Baron Ward. “What was that pretence of a French pass?”
Palmer. “I saw none.”
Kidd. “But you have heard of it.”
Palmer. “I have heard of it, but I never saw it.”
Unable to get any admissions from these two, Kidd called another witness, Mr. Davis.
Kidd. “I desire Mr. Davis may be called—Mr. Davis, pray give an account, whether you did not see a French pass.”
Davis. “I came a passenger from Madagascar, and from thence to Amboyna” (evidently a clerical error for Anguilla) “and there he sent his boat ashore, and there was one said Captain Kidd was published a pirate in England, and he gave him those passes to read—the Captain said they were French.”