there corn was destroyed, and if they were supplyed by them of Albany they would come hither in

the winter and plunder this place, having 1 500 pare of snow shoes ready made, and if they found that we gave the Sinnakes any the least assistance, they would not let the Childe in the cradle live

He heard further of a Merchant that if we would supply the Sinnekes they would send our

people away all severall ways, some to Spain, some to Portugall some to the Islands, and it was no

more than the English had done to Mons r Pere whom they kept 18 months in close prison at London. The French all acknowledge the Sinnekes fought very well, and if there number had been greater it would have gone hard with the French for the new men were not used to the Sinnekes hoop and hollow, all the officers falling down closse upon the ground, for the Officers jeard on another about it att Mont Royall

This is what Jean Rosie Anth

Lespinard's compagnion doth relate being an inhabitant of this

towne, and a verry honest man, although a frenchman, they were kept 5 weeks in arrest after they

came to Canida upon a pretence that there passe was false, for could not beleive your Excell c y was here butt gone home haveing such advice from the French ambassadour he prays your Excell

:

would

consider the pains and trouble and the loss of time that has been att waiting for an answer from the