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.)