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The 25th of November 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]

The Lord Protector against certaine plankes et cetera}
and against Lawrence Adams et cetera}

Examined on an allegation on the behalfe of his highnes
Oliver Lord Protector/

Rowe dt.

Thomas Scoulding of himingham in Suffolk yeoman aged
50 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne andexamined saith
and deposeth as followeth videlicet/

To the first article hee saith that hee well knoweth that the arlate Jonas Shish
during all the tyme arlate and for a longer tyme hath bin a [?Purvider] for tymber
to be imployed for the use of the Navie of this Commonwealth and soe commonly
reputed And further hee cannot depose/

To the 2 and 3 articles hee cannot depose knowing nothing touching the cntents of them

To the 4th hee saith hee cannot depose/

To the 5th 6th and 7th articles hee saith that in the moneth of August 1655 hee this deponent having
some conference with the one Joseph Artys (being the arlate Joseph Artys a party in
this suite) touching certaine plankes amounting to a hoyes loadeing which as
hee sayd hee had bought and were delivered to him, and which as this deponent
hath heard were part of certaine plankes bought by the arlate Jonas Shish
for the use of this Commonwealth and delivered and laded into the hoye of Joseph
[?Waters] in the 4th article of this allegation mentioned at Yarmouth to be delivered
at deptford to the Commonwealths use at their warehouses there) the sayd
Arties sayd that hee had bought the same of the arlate Lawrence Adams
and that the same were turned over to him by the sayd Adams for a debt
due to him the sayd Artis from the sayd Adams for which hee the sayd
Artis sayd hee then had a bond, and that therefore hee cared not much whether the sayd
plankes should be adiudged to belonge to this Commonwealth or to him the
said Artis for that hee the sayd Artis had then still in his hands a bond for his money happen what
would or words to that effect And further to these articles hee cannot depose/

To the 8th 9th and 10th saving his foregoeingd eposition hee cannot depose/

To the 11th hee cannot depose

To the last hee saith his foregeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee cannot answere knowing nothing nor having heard ought of
the contents thereof/

To 2 and 3 hee saith they concerne him not to answere thereto for that they
are directed only to Mr Shish./

To the 4th hee cannot answere knoweing nothing of the contents thereof/

To the 5th and 6th hee saith it concerneth him not to answere thereto the same being
directed only to Mr Shish

Repeated before Collonel Cock

Thomas Skouldinge [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]