322     Court and Testamentary Business, 1647.

  Liber A.   it not; for he cared noe more for the Gouernoure (meaning

                  Mr Greene) then hee did for any of the rest. Aliso att the same

                  time speaking concerning Capt Hill; hee wished tht Capt Hill

                  would come, & reassume the gouermt affirming tht if Capt Hill

                  were come, & tht hee the sd James Johnson could see Capt Jno

                  Price, pressing soldiers, to resist the sd Capt Hill, & not aboue

                  two others in his Company hee would shott him (meaning Capt

                  Price) All wch being proued by the Oath of Rich: Bennett,

                  the Court iudged tht hee should be fyned in 2000 l Tob: & to

                  bee whipped wth 30 lashes. And to remaine in the sheriffes

                  hands, till the Corporall punishmt be exequuted. & to putt in

                  security for the paymt of the sd ffyne.

                    warrt to the sheriffe to see the sentence exequuted to morrow

                  in the euening.

                    July 15th Came Rich: Bennett, & deposed, sayth tht hee

                  goeth in danger of his life for tht James Johnson hath threatned

                  him wth speeches to tht purpose. protesting tht whosoeur shall

                  relate any speeches uttered by the sd Johnson, tht he the sd

                  Johnson will giue him a Rogues mark &c: And desyreth tht

                  the sd James Johnson be bownd to the peace & good behavior

         p. 80 July 28th Willm Lewis demandeth attatchmt for a boate wch

                  the sd Lewis claymeth to be his, wch sd Boate was brought hither

                  by Mr Tho: Pasmore of Chicacoan.

                    Wart to attatch the sd boate & to deliur the same unto the

                  sd Willm Lewis, in case the sd Tho: Pasmore shall not deny the

                  claime. But if hee shall deny, to bring the sd Tho: Pasmore

                  before the Governor forthwth to shew cause &c:

                  Att a Court Vnto the demand of Willm Lewis, Mr Pasmore

                  prnt Gouernor sayth, tht he knoweth nothing concerning the

                  foresd claime: for tht he borrowed the sd boate of one Henry

                  Moseley of Chicacoan only for his prnt transport to St maries

                  about his owne affayres.

                    Charles Maynord deposed sayth uppon his oath to the best

                  of his remembrance tht the Boate wch the sd Lewis layth claime

                  to, was formerly Mr Lewis his boate as appeareth by marks, to

                  witt a poplar thoate, being the fore thoate a flatt bottome & a

                  broad sterne.

                        Thomas Howard deposeth idem.

                    Ordered by the Gouernor tht iudgmt be respited untill the

                  Tenth day of August, before wch time the foresd Henry Moseley

                  is to appeare by himselfe, at his Attorney att St Inego's ffort

                  to make answere to the sd claime of Willm Lewis or else iudgmt

                  to proceed as confessed for not appearance,