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" in his youth at the Castle. Thèse Tvords, to keep it " that it might be restored at the Governor's pleasure^ ^' were iaterligned at the sight and upon the report " of the déponent."

3. — " Clément Machon saith he assisted and hope " the Seigneur of Rosel, with the consent of the Cap- '' tain, to descend a sacker from the Tower and to " bring the same into the bowling of the Castle, where " it was prooved with powder and a buUet, the which " after the Captain offered to lend upon 14 french ^' crownes, soe that it might remaine still at his com- " mandment. Touching other peeces of iron, he " knoweth nothing certainly but of two fowlers, which ** he saw once at Cosmos Cabot, which he thinketh " came from the Castle, but he knoweth not of what " price or weight they were."

4. — ^^ Thomas Aubin knoweth nothing either of " the sacker or of any other peece but by heare say."

6. — " Adam La Cloche hope to descend the sacker " and to bring it to the Bowling AUey, where it was " tryed, where he heard say that the Captain would " lendit unto the Parishof St. Martin's, which refused " it because he would not sell the same. Touching " other peeces he hath hope Cosmos Cabot to breeke " a couple, but he knoweth not how he came by them, " nor of what price or weight they were."

6. — '' Cosmos Cabot saith that he did helpe to '^ descend the said sacker and saw the same tryed, " but he knoweth not what became thereof. Seing '* demanded what other peeces he had bought, he did

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^ say that he had some at three severall times of the *^ Captain and of his fiither within ihege five or six ^^ yearecL Being asked whether they were serviceable, '' he answered that he could not tell, but that he sold ^^ the fowltt and three chambers unto Oratian Borton, ^ without the consent of the Captain ; of what prioe ** or weight the said peeces might be which he bought *^ he knoweth not, because he kept no acconnt " thereot"

7. — " Thomas Master saith that he did helpe like- ^' wise to descend the sacker and was présent at the *' shooting of the same, but he knoweth not who had " it, nor whether it was serviceable. Besides he saw '' one or two fowlers at a smith house called Dorey, ^^ not knowing whether they came from the Castle."

8. — '' Hyw Eicharson knoweth not that a sacker ** of the Castle was sold unto the Seigneur of St '^ Ouen, but he knoweth of one which he hope to ** descend, which was promised to be lent to the Pa- ^* rishionners of St. Martin's and yet was tryed, but ^* yet he knoweth not whether it was serviceable. ^^ Being asked of other peeces, he knoweth nothing " but of one, which he saw at Cosmes Cabot, which, ^^ as it was commonly said, came firom the Castle, but '* knoweth not whether it was serviceable.

9. — " Hyw Noël knoweth not what became of the ^' sacker that was descended for the Parishionners of ** St Martin's from a waU, nor whether it was ser- ^' viceable. Tonching other peeces, he saith that he *' saw some «t two smith's houses, called Cosmes Cabot

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^' and Thomqy9 Dorey, wlûch they said came from the ^ Castle ; but he knoweth not whether they were ^^ servicéable, neither could he tell about what time ^^ it was when he saw them there."

10. — ^^ Thomas Baudain saith that he knoweth not ^* of any sacker that was sold from the Castle unto ^ the Seigneur of St. Ouen. Seing demanded if he ^^ saw any fowlers transported from their places, he ^' saw two at Gosmes Cabot's house, who told him *' that they came from the Castle, but heremembereth *' not the time, unlesse it was about six or seaven " years agoe, not knowing whether they were of ser- ^^ vice ; iurther he saith that he saw a sacker un- " mounted, bound with a drcle."

11. — ^' Jean Jennes saith that he saw a sacker ^* before the gâte, bound with a cirde of iron, which '' was shott off in his présence, but he knoweth not *^ whether the same was sernceable, nor to whom it ^ was sold. Besides he saw a fowler at Cosmes Cabot's ^' house, that came from the Castle, who told him that ^' he sold the same unto a stranger, with the Captain's ** kare, six or seaven years agoe/'

12. — ^' Peter Payne deposeth that he can say ^ nothing that one peece was sold ont of the Castle *^ unto the Seigneur of St Ouen, or unto any other, *' because he cometh seldome or never into the Castle."

13. — ^' Mathew Jeane saith ,that he knoweth no- *< thing of the sacker, but he saith that he saw one '' peeœ of iron at Colas Blampiad, smith, to bebroken