_Tangiers.--English Army in 1684._--A merchant in 1709 deposed that he knew
not how long complainant had been a _soldier_, or beyond the seas before
May, 1697, but that he has heretofore seen and knew him at Tomger, before
and at the time of the demolishing thereof, being then a _soldier_; and no
doubt could prove that he was in England a considerable time next before
May, 1697.
Could the place be other than Tangiers, destroyed in 1684?
Was complainant (a younger son of a well-connected family of gentry, but
himself probably in poverty), who in deeds, and on his mon. tablet, is
described as gent., likely to have been in 1684 (aged twenty-seven) a
private, a non-commissioned, or commissioned officer?
If the latter, would he not have been so described?