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