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Shipp and all his goods againe, for w^ch fact the greatest fine
that by y^e Lawes of that Country could be sett vpon any man
was by the then Gouerno^r there imposed vppon Cornwallis and
hee compelled to pay the same And then for the safety of his
person enforct to trust his whole estate there w^th a Servant and
to flie hither w^th Ingle in the same Shipp And when Cornwallis
came into England Ingle gaue Testimony before a Comittee
of his good affeccon to y^e Parliament and of his great sufferings
for that Cause.
Afterwards Ingle goeing into those pts againe Cornwallis
entrusted him here in London by way of Trade w^th diuerse
Comodities to the value of about 200^l but Ingle kept the Com-
modities, and takeing advantage of Cornwallis his absence landed
some men nere his howse and rifled him to the value of 2500^li
att the least And then returning into England complained be-
fore the Comittee of Examinacons ag^st Cornwallis as an enimy
to the State vainely hopeing by that meanes to shelter himselfe
from the Law, but vpon full debate of the businesse before that
Comittee Cornwallis was referrd to his remedy att Law, and
hath brought an accon att Lawe ag^st Ingle for the Comodities
deliuerd here, and pcured a Comission out of the Chancery
to examyne witnesses of the value of the goods taken away in
Maryland.
To stay these pceedings Ingle caused Cornwallis to be laid
in prison vppon 2 faigned accons of 15000^ll but Cornwallis by
the helpe of his friendes gott out of prison And that piect
faileing Ingle p^rferrd a peticon ag^st Cornwallis before the Lordes
in Parliam^t And vpon fayned allegacons hath pcured an Order
to stopp Cornwallis his pceedings att the Lawe till the matter
conteyned in the peticon be determined And nowe Ingle ab-
sents himselfe and psecutes noe further vpon his peticon. And
now Cornwallis hath peticoned the Lords that in regard hee
hath attended seuerall dayes w^th Councell and is noe longer
able to beare that charge, that the businesse may be speedily
heard and determined by their Lo^pps or that hee may be left
att Liberty to try his accon att Lawe for the goods deliuered
to Ingle here

Cap^t Cornwallis def^ts
att the suite of
Ingle & fford p^lts
Cap^t Cornwallis had planted himselfe in the Pvince of Mary
Land in America And about two yeares since Ingle came
thither as M^r of a Shipp to trade in those parts w^th the English
who had planted there. And was there arrested of high Trea-
son and his Shipp and goodes seised, for some wordes w^ch hee
had spoken ag^st the Kinge vpon a Comunicacon of the differ-

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