134 court and Testamentary Business, 1642.

 Liber P. R  behalfe; doe hereby authorise you & withall will & require you

                  privately to inquire & informe your selves whether there be any

                  publique fame or no within the said Iland, virginea, or other

                  places, of such delay of justice by the said Giles Brent, & if by

                  such inquiry, or otherwise without it of your owne knowledge

                  you be satisfied that there is such publique fame, then to call

                  before you all such persons, as you think can say any thing

                  therin, & them to examine by their corporall oath, vpon all

                  such Interrogatories, as you shall think fitt & requisite to give

                  vs true & certaine knowledge whether any such injustice or

                  oppression have beene committed by the said Gihes Brent, & at

                  what time or times, & to what persons & in what causes, & to

                  what effect & importance & in what other manner, nature, or

                  circumstances as you shall think pertinent to such inquiry,

                  And the examinations so taken signed wth the deponents hands

                  to transmitt to vs or Or Lieutent Generall without delay, and

                  before the first of december next at the furthest. Given at

                  St Maries this 21. october 1642. witnesse Or brother &c.

                    The examinaon of Thomas Speak gent, taken before

                    mr Secretary, at the requiring of mr Giles Brent gent

                    that he should be examined what he knew or could

                    say touching a ewe sheepe feloniously killed as the said

                    Giles Brent suspecteth by some of the souldiers hate vpon

                    the lie of Kent vnder the comand of mr william brainthwait.

                    This examinate saith that vpon a Sonday in the afternoone,

                  the 9th Octob as he remembereth he this exaate with the rest of

                  the souldiers coming to Popelie's Iland, saw divers peices of

                  mutton boiling in a pott over the fire, wch was (as he thinketh)

                  putt into the pott by the cook of the company (because he

                  vsed to dresse the victuals; & he thinketh that all the company

                  ate of it when it was dressed, but he this exaate was sick at that

                  pnt, wherby he saw not who ate of it, but he saw divers

                  peices of mutton putt into 3. dishes, and the dishes wth the

                  mutton served out to the messes.

       p.  42 1642

                    October 23 Nathaniel Littleton of Accomack gent p

                  attornat willia Luddington demandeth of Thomas Carey &

                  ffrancis Brooks of Kent nine hundred wt tob wth cask

                    attachmt to answere 1st decemb & pforme. to be returned eod:

                     copie of an acquittance

                              March 1o 1641

                    Received by me Leonard Calvert Esq from Cutbert ffenwick