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,
4/1416 Mounsr. Harvey, Mounsr. 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: 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.)
[Note 835: Champlain.]