274 Court and Testamentary Business, 1644.

Liber P. R. xpofer Carnoll made oath that at some time in or neare

                 novemb 1642 at Snow hill, this dept heard Ellis Beach promise

                 vnto John nevill vpon coicaon betweene him & Anne the now

                 wife of the said Ellis touching carrying the said Anne & Ellis

                 to virginea, that he would content the said Jo. nevill for his

                 paines from the time of his going out till his arrivall here againe.

                 Jurat

                   In a cause betweene mr Secretary & John dandy, mr brainth

                 wait ordered that the said John dandy should fix the lock of the

                 plf pduced in Court for 53 l of tob. & sett together as it was

                 before tuesday night next, vpon penalty of 100 l tob to be paid

                 to the plf in default

                                              Willm Branthwaite

   p. 163          1644

                   June 1. vpon the oath of Thomas Yewell that the cow in

                 quaestion betweene mrs Brent & Thomas Sterman had a calfe

                 last grasse was twelvemonth the Judge dismissed the said Tho.

                 Sterman to the quiet possession of the cow in question.

                   And vpon the defts demand of damages, allowed him to recover

                 agst the plf 70 l tob.

                   warrt to warne Ellis beach to be at Cort Satturday next 3cl

                 aftern: pill iudgmt

                   william brainthwait gent attorny of Gregory Chitique of

                 Patowmeck demandeth of the Admratrix of Jo. harrington 70.

                 armes length of roanoke remaining due vpon the iudgmt of the

                 Govr in that behalfe; & made oath that he was truely appointed

                 attorny by the said Chitique & the Judge valued the roanoke

                 at 490 l tob, & ordered she should pay it to him.

                   Ellis Beach appeared to the suit of John nevill; & saith that

                 he made no bargaine wth the plf nor did vse his labour; the

                 86 l he acknowledgeth.

                   And the Judge beside the 86 l found for the plf 20 l tob for

                 damage of evidence, & 1. p good new shoes 1. p good new

                 irish stockins; 1. good new locram shirt, & 1. p of new drawers

                 of frise worth 7s 6d in EngI: by the iudgmt of 2. neighbors, or

                 els 2. p of good canvas drawers for it: to be dd. to the plf at

                 the next arrivall of any vessell in this river wth such goods; or

                 in case none arrive sooner, then sometime before the first of

                 december next; or in default therof 700 l tob. to be levied vpon

                 him by exequution.