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"pour y prevenir; et que M^r Frobisher n'a pas levé la main, ni fait aucun geste menaçant, ni était aucunement armé pendant ce fracas, et qu'il paraissait parler poliment quand il parlait s'adressait aux Meurons". i.e. "The deponent, being then in his lodge saw M^r Frobisher, who appeared to be very indignant at having been made prisoner, go to the entrance of the lodge, in order to speak to the Meuron soldiers who were on guard there; that upon M^r Frobisher saying a few words in English, which the deponent did not understand, one of the soldiers gave him a violent kick to M^r Frobisher, by which he fell down in the lodge; that having got up, the same man, who was surrounded by his armed comrades, then gave M^r Frobisher a violent blow with his fist by which he was a second time knocked down; that having again recovered his feet, and again endeavouring to address the soldiers, M^r Frobisher, after being threatened to be knocked down with the buttend of a musquet, received a blow on the side of his headfrom with the barrel of a heavy soldier's musquet, which in one moment stretched him senseless on the ground, and that he fell so instantaneously and without motion a struggle, that the deponent verily believed he was killed. That all these outrages occurred under the eyes of the said M^r Clarke & and M^r Williams, and of the officer, serjeant, and corporal of the

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