1291. Did you sell them to your neighbours?-I could not sell them to my neighbours, because they were in the same state as I was myself. 1292. Where did you sell them?-Sometimes we would take a little and fall in with a boy or a laddie, who would buy a bit of cloth from us, or the like of that, at a reduced price and thus help us to get a few shillings. 1293. To what boys or lads did you sell these goods?-Just to any lad that would buy them. Perhaps my own lad would be going elsewhere, such as to the sea, where he would be paid by a fee; and sometimes I would get a bit of goods and give it to my boy, and he would pay me for it with a few shillings out of his fee and that would serve my ends for the time. 1294. Had you anything to sell off your farm?-Yes. 1295. You sold a beast now and then?-Yes; but Mouat took the whole of them. 1296. Did he buy your beasts too?-Yes. 1297. Did you not have liberty to sell them to other people?-No, we had no liberty at all; because he said we were under the same obligation with regard to beasts and eggs and all the produce of our farms as we were under with regard to the fish, and therefore, if he got the one, he compelled us to give him the other too. 1298. When did he tell you that about the beasts and the eggs?- He told us about it in the same year that he took the tack. 1299. Did you ever try to sell them to another?-Yes, I tried that sometimes. 1300. To whom did you try to sell them?-To any one who came round asking for such things; but I knew that if I did such a thing, and Mouat came to know about it, I must be prepared to take to my heels and fly. 1301. Did you ever actually sell any of the produce of your farm to another than Mouat?-I never sold any, except one little horse; and I sold it when I was in starvation for meal. That was towards the end of Mouat's tack. 1302. How long ago was it?-I think it is two years past. 1303. Who did you sell it to?-I sold it to a man in the neighbourhood of Quarff. 1304. What was his name?-Andrew Jamieson, he lives at Quarff now. 1305. What did you get for it?-I got £2; it was a small beast 1306. Did Mouat know that you had sold that beast to Jamieson?-Yes, and as soon as he heard about it he sent for me, and told me what he was determined to do, and that I might prepare myself for going. 1307. How long was that before he failed?-I think I only paid one year after that. 1308. Do you mean that there was only one settlement with him after that?-Yes. 1309. When you were making your settlements, I suppose it was the previous Whitsunday and Martinmas rents that you settled for at each?-Yes.