156    Court and Testamentary Business, 1642.

 Liber P. R. Brent deft to the best of your conscience according to your

                  evidence So helpe you God &c.

                    mr weston amerced 50 l tob for not appearing to be of the Jury,

                    afore the swearing, mr Brent excepted agst mr Binks, as

                  being a convictor of the plaintif, & having expressed his in

                  clination in the cause; but the Court admitted not the exception.

                    the Leiutent grall giving information to the Jury, the Jury

                  desired it might be vpon oath, els they could not take notice

                  of it. whervpon the Leiutent grall was sworne in Court, &

                  examined vpon such Interrogatories as the Jury desired to be

                  administred to him

                    then was the issue delivered in writing to the Jury, and they

                  returned that they found for the defendt

                    5th decemb. 1642. his Lops Attorny said that the Court ought

                  not to goe to iudgemt vpon the said verdict, the issue being ioined

                  in a sense vnderstood one way by the plaintif, & construed to

                  another by the defendt & therefore ought to be new ioined in

                  certaine forme of Law

                  Eod. the allegation of mr Lewger touching the pson of

                  Mathias de Sousa agst the exequution of John Hollis was

                  found for mr Lewger & adiudged by the Court that the

                  covenant of the said mathias for disposing of his pson to

                  the satisfaction of mrs Lewgers just debts was valid, & that

                  exequution was to issue vpon his pson on behalfe of the said

                  John hollis in the same order & to the same effect as other

                  exequutions vpon goods.

                    Eod. in the cause betweene Richard Gannett & Richard Cox

                  deft the Court found for the plf. 50' tob & 3. bbushels 3 pecks

                  of come wch the deft had tendred afore & therefore was not in

                  default, nor to pay charge.

         p. 59 1642

                    December 1st whereas there was by command of the L. G.

                  two of my servants taken from me the one for a month the

                  other for 3. weeks, and 10 l of powder & 1481 of shott & lead

                  for wch he desireth satisfaction to the value of 500 l of tob for

                  the powder & shott, 200 l tob for the hire of the men, the one

                  being a seaman and Master of my vessell

                                                Tho:     Cornwaleys

                  ordered by the Govr

                    Let there be an assessmt made for the levying of this accompt

                  vpon the Province

                    John hollis demandeth 200 l tob for boathire for the ex

                  pedition.