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Liber A.

untill hee shall arryue att S^t Inegos ffort, & there gyuen a uist
acc^t of all such plunder, or pillage afores^d to mee, or some other
whom I shall appoint. And I doe further declare the s^d Cap^t
Jn^o Price to be cheife Capt or Comder of all such forces, as hee
shall take w^th him, during the s^d seruice. Gyuing him the s^d
Cap^t Jn^o Price full power & authority hereby, to appoint such
Officer or Officers, for the good ordering & managing the s^d
seruice intended, as hee (in his best discretion) shall iudge
needfull & conuenient. Requyring all & euery one (who shall
goe along w^th him) to be ayding & assisting unto him the s^d
Cap^t Jn^o Price uppon all occasions w^tsoeu^r in the qual^ty of cheife
Cap^t or Commander uppon payne of such punishm^t & censures
to be inflicted uppon them & euery of them, as such contempt
& disobedience in the iudgm^t of a Martiall Court shall deserue.
Gyuen att S^t Inegos ffort under my hand & the scale of the
Prouince this 4^th July Ano. 1647.
Signed. Tho: Greene.
To Cap^t Jn^o Price.

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The deposition of M^r Thomas Bradnox aged fowerty yeares or
there abouts; taken this n^th of Septemb^r 1647:

This deponent affirmeth vppon oath : That M^r Nathaniell
Pope, when he was sent as Agent from the Gouerno^r of Mary-
Land, did as much as he could to animate the people to
auoyde the Iland, and that if they would come and Hue at
Apomatocks, he made noe question but in shortt tyme to get
strength enough to get the Country againe, and that they
might insure them selues, that the tobbacco w^ch he demanded of
them at that tyme, he would assuredly haue: for he was a
comeing vpp as soone as they returnd w^th a great Company
of Souldiers: And ffurther this deponent knoweth not.
sign
Thomas T Bradnox
Jurat coram me Robertus uaughan
Concordat cum
originale: Teste me
Rob^t Clarke Clk

The deposition of M^r Edward Comins aged about fowrty yeares
or there about, taken this 11^th of, Septemb: 1647:

This deponent affirmeth vppon oath: That M^r Nathaniell
Pope when he came vppon the Iland, as Agent for the Gouer-
nor of Maryland, sayd that though the Gouern^r made lardge
promises, vnto vs, yet they should find, that there would