Oeuvres de Champlain
Chapitre IV
9 (19) Novembris 1629.
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.)