Court and Testamentary Business, 1638.   29

      of the Counsell of this Province, and acknowledgeth himselfe                   Liber Z.

      to owe vnto the Lord Proprietr two thousand pound weight of

      good merchantable tobacco &c.

             The condition of this Recognisance is that if the said

           Jerome Hawley shall bring the body of John norman

           into the Court whensoever he shalbe therevnto de

           manded; & shall abide & performe the sentence of

           the next Court to be held at St maries after warning

           thereof given vnto him (he the said Jerome Hawly,

           and Cyprian Throughgood being then within the

           mannor of St maries) in a cause depending betweene

           him the said Jerome Hawley and the said John norman;

           that then this recognisance to be void: &c.

                                      Jerom Hawley

        Recogn coram me

      John Lewger Secretary.

      28.  Aprill 1638

        Memorand that this day Samuel Smith acknowledgeth him

      selfe to owe vnto the Lord Proprietr two thousand weight of

      tobacco; and likewise Richard Thompson of the Ile of Kent

      planter, and Henry Hawley of virginea gent acknowledge

      themselves to owe iointly and severally vnto the said Lord

      Proprietr two thousand weight of tobacco, to be paid on the

      10th of November next.

             The condition of this Recognisance is that if the p.

           said Samuel Smith shall by himselfe or his Attorney

           sufficiently authorised appeare at the County Court to

           be held at St maries on the first monday in october next

           following the date hereof, & shall there abide the

           iudgemt of the Court in a cause depending betweene the

           said Samuel Smith and William Clobery m'cht and

           company and shall performe the same iudgemt for as

           much as shall concerne him to performe it, then the said

           Recognisance to be void; &c.

                                      Samuell Smyth

                                      Rich:   Tomson

                                      Hen:    Hawley

      Aprill 25th 1638

        Memorand that Capt George Evelin acknowledgeth himselfe

      to owe vnto the Lord Proprietr five hundred weight of tobacco;

      and likewise John Lewger Secretary, acknowledgeth himselfe

      to owe vnto the Lord Proprietr five hundred pound weight of

      tobacco, to be paid on the 10th of Novemb next.

             the Condition of this Recognisance is that if the said