138     Court and Testamentary Business, 1642.

 Liber P. R. Eod. william hardidge demandeth of ffrancis Posie three

                   hundred & thirty pounds of tob due by bill.

                    attachmt Vt supra to sheriff or deputy.

                    Eod. John Lewger alledgeth that the person of Mathias de

                   sousa is bound to him the said John Lewger by an Indenture

                   of service for foure months & Vpward yet to come made bona

                   fide & vpon good consideration, all wth he is ready & vnder

                   taketh vpon him to averre whensoever he shalbe therevnto

                   required, vpon his perill of being answerable to any person as

                   shalbe damnified by this his allegation, in such manner as the

                   Court shall adiudge vpon his default of proofe, & therefore

                   prayeth that a writt of supsedeas be granted to him vpon the

                   exequution awarded agst the pson of the said Mathias at the

                   suit of John Hollis.

                    Eod. whereas mr John Lewger alledgeth that the person of

                   Mathias de sousa against whom you have an exequutiori in

                   yor hands as yet vnserved is bound to him the said John Lewger

                   by Indenture of service, & hath Vndertaken to prove his said

                   allegation at his perill These are therefore to will & require

                   you to forbeare to serve the said exequution vntill further order

                   in that behalfe. And this shalbe yor warrant

               To the Sheriff of St maries  signed Leonard Calvert

                    Eod. Mathias de Sousa made oath that about March was

                   twelvemonth he was appointed by mr Pulton to goe in his

                   pinace as skipper & trader to the Sesquihanoughs & by him

                   appointed to hire men at Kent for the voyage, & that he would

                   write to mr brent to assist him in it & that at his coming to

                   Kent wth the knowledge & consent of mr brent he hired John

                   Prettiman to goe vpon the voyage, & that he hired him for 200 l

                   1642 tob. p month, and that accordingly John Prettiman was

          p. 45 November out vpon the voyage 2 months (within 3. daies) & that

                   by his meanes & presence he verily beleeveth the pinace & men

                   were saved at that time from destruction by the sesquihanowes.

                    Jurat coram

                                Jo: Lewger.

                    4th John Smith demandeth 1000 l tob of Thomas Keyne;

                    attachmt to sheriff of Kent to answere &c. retorn 1 st dec.

                    Eod. John Smith demandeth of william Risbrook and John

                   hill 1 000 l tob

                    attachmt Vt supra.