Court and Testamentary Business, 1647.

      answere. But by this opportunity haue sent to Mr Trussel                            Liber A.

      spedily to deliuer the mare & Colt to you Mr Hill has often

      spake to mee, to desyre me to write to you tht you will giue

      him satisfaction for some things wch were left, & some things

        are in yor hands. & tht he might haue such conditions as

      you & hee subscribed to. I told him tht he need not doubt, but

      you would giue him all satisfaction, but he was soe earnest wth

      mee to write tht I could not deny him to speake to you to doe

      him Justice. The prticulars of his demands I know not, but

      shall desyre you to satisfy him, in what is iustly due to him.

      This is all att present

        June the 12th 1647yor humble seruant

                           William Berkeley.

      Endorsed. ffor the honorable Leonard Calvert

        Esqr Gouernor of Maryland. these.

      Hond S

        My occasions to Appamatuck induced mee once more to

      send over to desyre those dewes, tht are iustly owing to mee

      from you for my sallary, in tht unhappy seruice Viz halfe the

      Custome, halfe rents, And satisfaction for Coiclough's horse

      yo” know it is mine euen by yor promise, where you offered mee

      the exchange of yor filley att Chicacoan. I satisfyed Sr William

      Berkeley in this cause, & procured his letter wch if it preuaile

      not, hath left me, to my remedy. In the interim I shall only

      desyre a fayre answere. And tht fame & suggested rumors

      alltogether false shall not preiudice my right. I request yor

      answere & rest       Yors if you please

        Chicacone this 18th June 1646      Edw: Hill.

      Post scrip

        The remainder of the leuy I hope you will se satisfyed.

      & my 146 armes length of Roanoke.

      Endorsed. To the Honnorable Leonard Caluert

        Esqr these present.

      Sr

        The noble Gentlemen to whom you were directed, is some

      dayes since layd in his graue, & hath appointed mee here in

      his steed. ffor answere therfore to yor demands concerning the

      Customs, halfe Rent, & satisfaction for Colcloughs horse, I not

      as yett understanding the busines, can make you noe other

      answere then tht when eur you please to send yor Attorney

      hither to pleade yor right you shall receiue full satisfaction,

      according to what Justice will allott you The rumors you mention

      we regard not, being fully determined (if any such things

      should be true) to giue the disturbers of his maty the Kings