324    Court and Testamentary Business, 1647.

    Liber A. August 5th Henry Spink aged 26 yeares & upward, sayth

                  uppon his oath that some-time in June last, this Dept being att

                  Mr Gerards howse, Mr Broadhurst then sayd to this Dept that

                  there was now noe Gouernor in Mary-Land. ffor Capt Hill

                  was Governor & him only he acknowledgeth. And further he

                  deposeth that the Sd Mr Broadhurst told him tht some Soldiers

                  sayd tht they would sell the Country for their wages. And

                  further the sd Mr Broadhurst sayd that they were a company of

                  silly Rogues for who can thinke th any body will giue them

                  (meaning the Soldiers) any thing for the Country.

                                                  Henry Spinke

        p. 82   Aug. 5. Charles Maynord pr Atturnat. Thomas Jackson

                  demandeth of Tho: ffidler 483 l Tob: & cask due by bill, to be

                  payd the 10th Nouembr next.

                    Warrt to cause the Sd Tho: ffidler to putt in security not to

                  depart out of the prouince, before the debt be satisfyed; or

                  ells to remaine in safe custody.

                    Aug 6th John Dandy att the request of Henry Spink,

                  sayth uppon his oath, That hee heard Nicolas Haruey say 2 or 3

                  dayes before his death That he had left a gold ring & a parcell

                  of lace, wth his man Henry Spink, when hee departed out of

                  Mary-Land. wishing tht hee had it there wth him to supply his

                  prnt wants in Virginia.

                  Recognit teste me               The mrk of

                    Willm Bretton Clk.           John x Dandy

                    Augt 26th William Breton gent Clarke of the Court being

                  for the prsent sick and not able to attend the place: I haue

                  thought fitt during his absence to appoint Rob Clarke gent to

                  execute the place, and haue accordingly giuen hym his oath to

                  that purpose.

                                                  Tho: Greene

                    Augut 27th In cause depending betwene Cuthbert Phenick

                  gent executor of Nich: Harueys estate and John Paulet, con

                  cerneing a gun: John Dandy deposeth that about eight

                  yeares since he made the locke that is now fixed to the barrell,

                  for thee use of Nicho: Haruy, and the sayd locke was taken

                  from the sayd Nicho: in March in the yeare 1644 by the party

                  then in Rebellion, and the barrell he veryly beleeueth to be the

                  sayd Nicho. but doth not depose. and further he knoweth not.

                  Recognt test me               Signed

                   Robt Clarke Clk.        John x Dandy