_Item._ That he the said Buckmaster Left the said Capt. Kidd the last day of May 1698 and went on board the ship _Resolution_, Capt. Robert Culliford Comander,[5] as a volunteer before the Mast, and went out Cruising with him but tooke no vessel dureing the voyage though they Continued Cruising from May to December. the said Culliford had forty Gunns mounted and 120 men. he had been in those parts seven yeares on the account. [Footnote 5: Culliford was a noted pirate, who for a time commanded the _Mocha_ frigate, which had been stolen from the East India Company; and this _Resolution_ was the _Mocha_ renamed, not the _Resolution_ of document no. 68, par. 13.] _Item._ That he quitted the said Culliford the Middle of December last and went on board the ship _Nasaw_, Giles Shelley Master,[6] that went from New yorke to Madagascar to trade there (the said Buckmaster being willing to come home to his family, the said Shelley being bound back to New Yorke), that he gave the said Shelley 100 pieces of Eight for his passage, which was the Comon rate and which sume he believes Fifty more passengers that came from on board pyrate ships at Madagascar and Saint Maries gave to the said Shelley, the said Shelley as he believes well knowing what ships they had been in and what designe they came from. [Footnote 6: Shelley, fitted out from New York in 1698 by Stephen Delancey and others, was suspected of piracy. In a letter of May 27, 1699, to Delancey, from Cape May, he speaks of bringing in 15,000 dollars of passage money. _Cal. St. P. Col._, 1699, p. 281. He had lived in New York since 1688. See also doc. no. 85, note 17.] _Item._ That the said Shelley sailed from the Island Saint Maries in the East Indies to Chyan[7] where he stayd three or four dayes. [Footnote 7: Cayenne, probably.] _Item._ That five or six of the persons that belonged to Capt. Culliford in the East Indies went on board Capt. Gravenreadt[8] out of Shelleys ship, when she came on this coast at Cape May, which Cape they made on Friday sevennight last.[9] Gravenreadts vessel lay about two miles from Shelleys ship, but the said Gravenreadts came on board shelleys ship, and believes made an agreemt. with the several men he took on board with him for their passages to [_blank_]: Vizt. Robert English, Jan Spons, Theophilus [_blank_][10] and two or three Others. That John Elderige, ---- Stanton, and Doctor ---- Badwain[11] went on shore at Cape May: they also came from on board Culliford. [Footnote 8: Andreas Gravenraedt of New York. On this very day, June 6, Governor Blakiston of Maryland was seizing him and his ship in the Severn River. _Cal. St. P. Col._, 1699, p. 287.] [Footnote 9: May 26.] [Footnote 10: Turner. He turned king's evidence. See the next document.] [Footnote 11: Kidd's physician was Robert Bradinham; he also turned king's evidence.]