2. That he is upon a Diett where he hath much more then he
desires without any agreement what he must pay for it, which
makes him feare that if he should long continue as he doth, he
should not be able to give satisfaction for it. Whereupon being
asked whie he did not take his diett with the Maister of the
house who had divers times invited him, offering him the
freedome of his house and garden, he answered that he loved it
private, and being further demaunded whie he did not expresse
himselfe in that point of his diett the charge whereof he
feared, he answered that he tooke what they brought him. And
being againe demanded, whether he had not cleane linnen as was
fitt, or that any that would have brought him cleane linnen had
beene refused to come to him, he answered, that he had his
linnen washed in the house, but in respect of the charge he
desired to have a laundresse of his owne, whereupon asking of
the Maister of the house whie he did refute it, he said that
his house had beene much troubled with two women that came
thither, and having some suspicion of them he refused them
entrance.
3. The third grievance is, that he is detayned for a ransome
which neither ought to be demanded, nor is he able to pay. For
he holds himselfe to be noe lawfull prisoner of warre not
having beene taken in warre, but upon a plantacion. And he
insists much upon this, That all prisoners taken on both sides
since the warre between the Crownes have beene freely
delivered, not onely those that have beene taken by the Kings
armies or fleetes, but such as have beene taken upon lettres of
Marque, whereof he gives instance in some taken att
Newfoundland, and insistes upon the freedome that Capt. Kirke
gave to all the rest that were under his command. And for his
ransome, he professeth his whole estate in France is not worth
above 700. L. Sterling, and wisheth that for their satisfaction
they would send over some man to search the notaries bookes and
the contract of Mariage with his wife, or any other waie that
may discover his estate, and should they keepe him ten yeares
and ten yeares, he was altogether unable to pay a ransome, and
wished that noe man would judge of his estate by his clinquant
cloathes.
2/1414 The Commissarie Generall doth not complaine but acknowledgeth
all good usage for Diett and lodging. His grievances are two.