130     Court and Testamentary Business, 1642.

Liber P. R. you william Luddinton to be one, to call afore you all such

                  persons as are named vnder the Interrogatories herein enclosed,

                  & to administer an oath to every of them to make true answere

                  to such Interrogatories as shalbe demanded of them on the

                  behalfe of Giles Brent gent and every of them to examine

                  vpon every the said Interrogatories, and to sett down their

                  answeres therevnto signed with the examinates owne hand,

                  and the said answeres to keepe secrett, and send them

                  enclosed vnder your seale to vs or or Leiutent Grall sonic

                  time before the third of November next, together wth this

                  Commission. Whenof faile not. Given at St Maries this

                  seventeenth of Octob 1642. Witnesse Or deane brother &c.

     p. 39     Interrogatories to be administred on the hehalfe of

                       mr Giles Brent to the parties herevnder named.

                    I did you at any time signifie your vnwillingnes to the designd

                  voyage against the sasquesahanocks to mr Giles Brent or to

                  others in words importing that the going that voyage would

                  be the undoing of the people of Kent on dispeopling of it, or

                  in what words have you signified such vnwillingnes, on in what

                  manner have you heard others signifie their vnwillingnes, or

                  how many doe you think in yor conscience you have heard

                  expresse an vnwillingnes in some such sort, on had you your

                  selfe such vnwillingnes, drawen from such reasons as are above

                  rehearsed?

                    2 did you your selfe or have you heard any other and how

                  many were they as you remember, complaine to the said Giles

                  Brent or to others who might relate it to him in words to this

                  effect, that if he the said Giles Brent should take one pound

                  of powder & 5 l of shott for every one designd to the expedition

                  out of that present store of ammunition, many houses would

                  be left wholly destitute, and almost no one sufficiently furnished

                  with ammunition or what do you know of the then store of

                  ammunition to this effect or have heard others relate.

                    3 did yor selfe say on have you heard others? and how many

                  as you remember? that vpon the returne of that expedition the

                  enemy was to be expected to prosequute after them to Kent,

                  the Iland being then disfurnished of ammunition or words to

                  some such effect or that thenevpon was to be expected the

                  firing & destruccon of their tobaccos losse of hoggs and cattell

                  killing of men in the woods, that men should not be able to

                  goe about their busines or what of these or to this effect have

                  you said or heard spoken, and by how many as you coniecture.

                    4 were you pressed for that voyage and did you say or did

                  you heame any other that was pressed say that your on their

                  going at that time would be the losse of much of your or their

                  cropps in respect they were not yet housed, or to that effect,