224     Court and Testamentary Business, 1643.

  Liber P. R. John Ormsby demandeth of ffrancis Gray 350 l tob for a tres

                   passe in delivering a gonne of hoell morgan attached in his

                   hands by Jniunction from mr Secretary to answere to the suits

                   of the plf. agst the said hoell.

                     the said francis Gray denieth that he delivered the gonne, or

                   had any charge of it

                     And the deft was dismissed without day.

                     Capt Tho. Cornwaleys Esq demandeth of Thomas Todd

                   31 70 l tob, due by bill & acct for debt & damage. the acct

                   being tried, as p file,

                   2270 L Gen Jan 14. the Cort found for the plf 2270' tob

                  —   Secret. & 1. hide well tanned, and for the damage respited

                  710        till plf made better proofe.

                     exequution inf: p. 135.

                     xfer Carnoll acknbwledgeth that he oweth vnto Capt Tho.

                   Cornwaleys Esq 700 l tob & cask to be paid vpon demand after

                   november next.

                     Anne ifietcher appeared to the complaint of Sr Edmond

                   Ployden Knt & saith that she was bound to the said Sr Edmond

                   only from yeare to yeare, & at the yeares end if she liked not

                   the country she was to goe home againe paying him for her

                   passage outward, & that she contracted not to serve him other-

                   where then in new Albion, & in the condition of a waitingmaid

                   to his Lady or his daughters, & that she was to have 4' a yeare

                   in commodities at first peny for wages; & that she served him

                   a yeare within a fortnight or thereabouts from her first contract

                   ing, & hath received no wages, & demanded her wages severall

                   times in virginea according to her contract; & thervpon seing

                   him to make default in her wages & to require her service

                   in virginea, where she could not be in the condition as he

                   pmised her in new albion, wch induced her to make the contract

                   of service wth him, she depted out of his service, as she hopeth

                   she lawfully might, & prayeth to be allowed her wages for the

                   time she served him & she is ready to allow it to satisfie him his

                   charge of her transport.

                     And the Court adiudged that the said Anne ifietcher should

                   be putt into the possession of the said Giles Brent, to be

                   returned to Sr Edmond Ployden in virginea, & there to plead

                   what she had to say in point of the right of service.

       p. 119     1643

                     January 12. John hollis & francis Gray appeared to the suit

                   of Margarett Brent, for 33 l of beaver &c. prayeth to see the

                   bill,