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A yeare since here in London meeting with … A yeare since here in London meeting with the said Tiddiman at the kings<br />
head taverne in Saint Clements lane, acquainted him with the order which hee<br />
had to demand the said serges of him and company, and soe they falling to<br />
treate further of the matter the said tiddiman at length treated of composing<br />
the said difference by payment of money, and would have given fiftie<br />
or three score pounds to have an absolute discharge from the [?sume], but this<br />
deponent insisting on a greater summe they broke off. And saith that<br />
either the said Jacobs or the said Goodwin were then and there present alsoe with<br />
the said Mr Tiddiman, but which of the two hee remembreth not. And<br />
others hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first, second and third hee answereth that hee did not know<br />
Tiddiman before the time predeposed but<br />
hath severall times seene him since, and then had doth scarse know either the<br />
said Jacobs or Goodwin, but is well assured that one of them was present<br />
with the said Tiddiman the time and place aforesaid, because<br />
such person as was soe with him treated of the said businesse as<br />
being himselfe concerned as partner therein with Mr Tiddiman<br />
And saith this deponent hath was noe share or interest in the said businesse<br />
nor doth hee knowe derrick Swine, And otherwise hee cannot answereth<br />
saving as aforesaid./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin with his precontest
John Dolins [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The first of May [CENTRE HEADING]
Touching the shipp the ''Union'' of Leith}<br />
Suckley}
Examined upon certayne Interrogatories
'''Rp. 4'''
'''John Tennant''' of Kirkawldy in Scotland Mariner Master<br />
of the sayd shipp the ''Union'' of Leith aged 32 years or there<br />
abouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first hee saith hee well knew the Vessell the ''Union'' Interrogate and was Master<br />
of her at the tyme of her seizure hereafter specified And that hee alsoe well knew<br />
the vessell of Warr Interrogate belonging to Rotterdam the Commander whereof<br />
was the Interrogate Captaine Kirkoff and saith the sayd vessell of warr carried eight<br />
gunnes and fifty men or thereabouts and was about the beginning of March 1655 English style in the<br />
River of fforth neere Boraston in Scotland whether hee came as Convoy to severall<br />
shipps from Rotterdam to the sayd place and saith that the sayd Kircoff while hee<br />
soe lay there did give notice by letter to Masters of shipps in generall upon the sayd<br />
Coast (each of them to show it to others) that hee was bound for Rotterdam and would<br />
accept under his Convoy all shipps thereabouts that had occasion to goe for holland and<br />
secure them in their voyage thither from the danger of all men of warr or to that<br />
effect which letter was communicated and showne to this deponent by one Robert Camell<br />
Master of a shipp belonging to Leith And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot<br />
answere./
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith that upon the nynth of March 1655 English Style<br />
some shipps goeing out of the River of fforth to Sea this deponent thought that one<br />
of them was the sayd holland man of warr who had undertaken to bee a Convoy as<br />
aforesayd and thereupon this deponent with his shipp the ''Union'' made sayle the same day<br />
after them and upon the 10th day of the sayd month being gott out to Sea and being<br />
come neere to the sayd hollands man of warr the sayd Kircoffe the Commander<br />
of her haled the ''Union'' aforesayd and asked this deponent whence hee and this shipp<br />
were and whether bound whereto this deponent replyed his shipp ''Union'' was of<br />
Leiths shipp ''Union'' was of<br />
Leith +
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