To the 5th. and 6th. he saith that being in distresse for want of victuals this examinate sent his brother and twenty more persons in a small pinnace of 7 or 8 tonnes called the Le Loania[833] and one hundred coates or gownes to a place called Gaspey and gave his brother order to land twentie of them there, whereof as he remembreth 2 were weomen and 4 children, and gave them each of them 2 Coates of beaver to buy victualls of the Savages, and with the rest to saile to France to give notice of their distresse in the said forte ac aliter nescit.
(State Paper Office, vol. V, n. 34.)
Note 833: [(retour) ]
La Coquinne.
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 interrt 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.