24      Court and Testamentary Business, 1637.

 Liber Z.   march 26.     a licence granted to william Edwin to marry mary

                          whitehead

                march 27  an administration of the estate of Susan Sey, com-

                          mitted to Cyprian Throughgood

                march 23 an Inquest vpon view of the body of Thomas morris

                          wth found him drownd by misadventure.

                march 24  an Inquest vpon the view of the body of Thomas

                          Cullamore wch found him drowned by misadventure

                   6th Aprill An administration of Zachary mottersheads estate

                  granted to James Baldridge: to bring in his inventory afore

                  the first of may; & his accompt vpon demand.

                   memorand that James Baldridge and Thomas Baldridge doe

                  acknowledge themselves & each of them to owe vnto the Lord

                  Proprietr one thousand weight of merchantable tobacco, in case

                  the said James Baidridge shall not make and deliver into the

                  Court a true and perfect Inventary of all the psonall estate

                  whereof Zachary mottershead gent was lately possessed of at

                  the time of his decease & in case he shall not deliver a

                  true and iust accornpt of his Administration when he shalbe

                  therevnto called by the Court James Baldridge

                  Recogn coramme

                   John Lew[ger]

       p. 53          22   march     1637

                   Cecilius Lord Proprietr &c. to all xtian people to whom

                  these pnts shall come greeting whereas william Blissard late of

                  the lie of Kent planter, being weake in body but of pfct sense

                  & memory did make his last & will and testament nuncupative

                  in manner and forme following, that is to say being asked by

                  Henry Crawley of the same Iland planter and at that time

                  mate & copartner of the said william Blissard in all his personall

                  estate, what course he did intend to take fr the directing of his

                  estate, and who should have it in case God called him by death;

                  the said william Blissard answered in these words, who should

                  have it but you? (meaning the said Henry Crawley) and being

                  againe demaunded whether he were in good remembrance of

                  what he said, he answered againe, yes I praise God, and all

                  that I have I give to you; meaning the said Henry Crawly;

                  as is deposed both by the oath of the said Henry Crawley

                  taken before the said Henry Crawley taken before the Secretary

                  of Or Province; and by the several1 oathes of Richard Purlivant,

                  and mathew Price of the same Iland planters taken in the said