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Court and Testamentary Business, 1643. 243
of any beaver gott or obteined by him or his assignes to Liber P. R. any other pson or psons, vntill the said somme of beaver be paid as aforesaid. In witnes wherof I have herevnto sett my hand & scale the second of may 1643. sealed & delivered, & possession of one calfe in leiu of the whole given in the pnce of John hallowes John wavell locus + sigilli Richard Harris.
John Lewger sheweth that Thomas Todd is bound to the petr to pay him fifty dressed skins for 3. yeares yet to come, for the price of his Indentures of service released to him by the petr and that there is a vehement suspicion of the entent of the said Tho. Todd to depart out of the colony, & defeate the petr of the benefitt of his said bargaine. humbly therefore prayeth warrant to arrest the said Thomas Todd vntill he have secured not to depart out of the pvince vntill he have satisfied or secured the petr of his said bargaine. warrt to E. P. to take into custody body of T. T. vntill he putt in security to the value of 2000k tob.
Exequut agst Tho. Todd for 710 l tob, adiudged to Capt Cornwaleys, and 351 for fees retorn. 1. mar. next.
came into Court Capt Tho: Cornwaleys Esq, & in pnce of the Court & of Peter draper attorny of Leonard Calvert Esq, tendred satisfaction to the said Peter draper to the vse of the said Leonard Calvert for the Protest of a Bill of exchange of 40 l sterling; out of the Bill of exchange 200 l sterling protested by the said Tho. Cornwaleys assigne agst the said Leonard Calvert.
xpofer Carnoll appeared to the suit of John dandy for 1 260 l tob (sup. p. 1 29) & acknowledgeth 500 l & 1 cask to be due; & the resedue he knoweth not. And the Court found for the plf 1256 l tob & 1. cask.
Thomas Cornwaleys Esq, appeared to prosequute agst Leonard Calvert &c. and exhibited the Protest authenticated of the bill of exch: of 200 l sterl: & prayed iudgmt agst the said Leonard Calvert, John Langford, & John Lewger, vpon his Protest, according to the vsuall course of the Law-merchant in England in the like cases
And the said John Lewger saith, that he hath received no satisfaction nor any thing in value for wch he charged the said bill, althoughe he acknowledged it vpon the bill, for the
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