Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665. 493






      Christoph: Stephenson plf               Liber F F
                    The accon wth drawne.
      William Watts deft

      Raymond Staple ford plf
     John Hawkins & deft Writt abates per mortem Wills.
       Thomas Wills S

  John Bayly plf
     John Hawkins d fts Writt abates per mortem &c:
       & Tho: Wills e

      Philip Holleager plf The plf Petn or Declarãon read. The deft
      James Southward deft James Southward Acknowledgeth Willm
      ifisher to bee his Attorney in open Court. In answere to the ptfs
      Declarãon, The deft pleads not guilty, & desyres tht the plf may proue
      his declarãon.
       Edward Cox in ditta caa sworne sayth, That lice hee heard one
      Mondidier say, (as hee was goeing for a sow to James Southward)
      That if James Southward denyed him his sow, hee would in ffiue
      words speaking, turne him out of all the estate hee had from Jeremiah
      Haslin, And att another time, as this Depont & Mondidier were a
      pyping, This Depont asked the sd Mondidier the reason, why hee had
      noe better Cloaths? Mondidier answered saying, If James South
      ward had not beene a knaue hee had had better Cloaths, ffor James
      Southward promised him a Broad Cloath suite & a Caster, for mak
      ing Jeremiah Haslins wills according to his the sd Sowthwards mind,
      And tht after hee had made that will according to Sowthwards mind,
      hee could gett nothing.
       John Webster in ditt, sayth, sworne in Court,
       That hee was seruant to Jeremiah Haslin att the time of his de
      cease, That the sd Jeremiah did once intend to make James South
      ward his Ouerseer ouer his Children, That there was a will begun to
      bee written wch James Southward shewed to this Depont, But Mon
      didier tould him this Depont That that will of Jeremiah Haslin was
      neuer signed by him the sd Haslin, But tht hee was out of his sences,
      Throwing the sd will away, making only a Scraule, And tht bee the
      sd Mondidier made a marke, signing it under Jeremiah Haslins name. 83]
       Mr George Saughier aged sixty fowre yeares sworne before me
      Tho: Besson Aprill 1665 sayth, That in the yeare 1660 betweene
      Christmasse and the spring of the yearc, when Jonathan Hopkinson
      was Ryuing of Boards, & Anthony Dimondidier barking of quar
      ters att this Deponts howse, This Depont aduised Dimondidier to
      fetch his Corne (due to him from James Sowthward) att Mr Brewers
      howse. Dimondidier replyed, If hee had it not where hee made it
      (Vizt) att James Sowthwards, lice would turne him out of Jeremiah