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      vpon the pett for it; humbly therefore prayeth to attach the                        Liber P. R.

      goods of the said Philip white to that value till he putt in

      security to save the petr harmles from his said bond. Sheriff

      returnd that he hath attached a debt of 4500 l tob & cask in

      the Captaines hand.

        warrt to sheriff to attach debts or goods of Philip white, till

      he putt in security to save harmelesse the said Anth. hodgkins.

        26 Came Philip white mariner, and sheweth that he is

      not bound to Capt Gibbon or mr Alderton in any somme of

      pork absolutely, but either in so much pork or so much

      tob wch shall amount to 20 l sterle at the rate of 4d pl wch is

      but 1 200 l tob. and that the said Anth. hodgkins did assume

      at this defts last going for Engl: to satisfie the said bill,

      & hath received of the deft sufficient value therefore; & that

      therefore the action of the said Anth. is a meere vniust moles

      taon: & therefore prayeth the attachmt to be released.

        release of the attachmt vnles the plf. putt in security to

      satisfie damage to deft.

      June 3d 1644

        Seise into your hands all debts goods or chattells wch you

      shall find within yor County due or apperteining to william Clay-

      borne late of Kent Esq who stands by publique acts convicted

      of open hostility done & exercised within this province against

      the Lord Proprietary & his goverrnt And what you shall so

      seise deliver into the hands of his Lops Receivor grall. for wch

      doing this shalbe your warrant.

      To the Sheriff of Kent            Giles Brent

        July 1 2. John halfhead acknowledgeth himselfe to owe

      1000 l tob to the Lord Proprietary in case he shall not be at the

      next Court on the first of october, to give evidence agst Edw.

      ward touching the burglary committed by him on the house of

      the said Jo. halfhead on tuesday night last.

                              mark of John x half head

        warrt to take recognis: siliter of Joseph Edlo. & to apprhend

      Edmond ward:

        John wortly demandeth of the estate of Peter draper 1 500 l

      tob.

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        July 1 7. Commission to Edward Packer to trade to the

      dutch & be Comander in C. ffleets pinace, &c.

        John Genalles saith vpon his oath that there was a sow of