447. Have you tried to buy it?-I could not try without the money. He would not give worsted for nothing. 448. And you had no money to pay for it?-No; I could not have it. 449. But when you were taking back your work to him, have you never asked to take part of the value of it in worsted?-I have; and I have been refused. 450. When did you do that?-It is long ago now; but I have done it. 451. What did he say when he refused you the worsted?-That it was a money article and he could not give it without the money. 452. Was it Mr. Linklater or Mr. Anderson who, said so?-I cannot remember now, it is so long ago. 453. Has that happened with you more than once?[Page 9]-I only remember asking it once. I never did it again, when I got a denial the first time. 454. Your sister also knits, and many of your acquaintances?- Yes. I would like to speak on my sister's behalf as well as my own. She is not here, but she wants to say the same thing that I have done. 455. She wants to make the same complaint?-Yes. She is not well, and is unable to come in. Lerwick, January 1, 1872, ANDREW TULLOCH, examined. 456. You are a fisherman at Cunningsburgh?-Yes. 457. Have you got a piece of ground there?-Yes. 458. You are a tenant of whom?-Mr. Bruce of Sumburgh. 459. Who do you fish for?-Thomas Tulloch at present. 460. Is he a relation of yours?-No. 461. Where is his place?-At Lebidden, close by Sand Lodge. There are some houses there. 462. Do you live there?-No; I live at Cunningsburgh. 463. Is Mr. Thomas Tulloch a tacks-master under Mr. Bruce. 464. What is he?-He is just a merchant carrying on business there, and he has stepped into the fishing. He sold goods before he began to it. 465. Does he keep a shop at Lebidden?-Yes, for the fishermen; and to sell to other people as well. 466. You engage to fish to him: is that for the summer fishing?- Yes, chiefly; or for the whole season, if we can follow it up. 467. Do you go to the Faroe fishing for him?-No; only to the ling fishing, in the six-oared boats. 468. What have you come here to say?-Chiefly, that we should like to have our freedom. We have freedom at present; but we are afraid of young Mr. Bruce taking the tack of the tenants into his own hands. He got a lease of the tenants from his father last season. 469. What did he get a lease of?-Of his father's premises at Cunningsburgh. 470. Then he got a lease of the whole lands of Cunningsburgh?- Yes, from his father. That was his statement the last time we settled with him. 471. What did he say then?-He said he was prepared to settle with the tenants, because he had got a lease from his father of the lands.