170     Court and Testamentary Business, 1642.

  Liber P. R. Eod:    warrt to bring afore Govr daniel Scoffin to answere

                   to such things as on Colonell Traffords behalfe should be

                   objected agst him.

                    17. John Lewger Esq demandeth of Colonell Trafford six

                   pounds fifteene shillings, or the value of it in tobacco, due vpon

                   cleare accompt; viz 960' tob & cask.

                    1st attachmt vpon goods of deft retorn 1st Aprill next

                 1642

                    January 1 3. Thomas Gerard gent, p attornat James Neale,

                   demandeth 600. Wt of tob of william Cook, due by accompt.

                    warrt to sheriff to arrest the deft. & keepe him safe till he

                   putt in security to answere retorn next Court 1st febr.

                    14. walter walterlins deposed to Interrogatories on the

                   behalfe of Capt Cornwaleys saith

                    ad 1. that he knoweth not any thing

                    ad 2. that he doth not know how often they did goe forth,

                   to hunt hoggs; but once to St Jeromes: & they were then out

                   some 3. daies.

                    ad 3. he was at St Jeromes when the other were there, &

                   went thether to fetch home the meat as they had killed, but

                   staid not an houre there: & carried home by land 2. wild

                   vnmarked shotes wherof 1. was a bore shote & the other a

                   sow shote, about a twelve month old a peice:

                    ad 4. the boat went but once to S. Jeromes, carried out by

                   this dept & Edmond Eason & Stermans man George;

                    ad 5. they brought home by boate 1. bore & 2. sow shotes,

                   about a twelve month old apiece delivered & spent by 3. shares

                   betweene Robt Smith, & Tho. yewell, & steven thomas.

                    ad 6. that he hath beene hunting this winter wth Robt Smith

                   & Tho. yewell in their owne neck, & have killed some 3 sow

                   shotes & 1. boare of about halfe yeare old vnrnarked, wch were

                   in company of the depts owne hogs, & of baidridge's & of

                   Rob. Smith's; they were killed by dogg:

                    ad 7. that he was not at the killing of the sow WIt the bunch

                   on her back, but went to St Jeromes to fetch her home by boate

                   as is afore sett downe. they were singed afore he came, so

                   that he knoweth not the colour.

                    ad 8. that none of them was marked; but how or where

                   killed he knoweth not.

                    ad 9. the eares were cutt off afore this dept came thether, they

                   were afterward as he thinketh brought to the ffort; he knoweth

                   not who cutt out their bellies, being cutt out afore he came: no

                   belly peices taken out as he knoweth, but all three cutt vi)

                   alike.