•  336 Court and Testamentary Business, 1647.

            Liber A. John dandy appeerd to the Action of Joseth Edlo, and

                  denieth the demand to be dew Court for want of euidence the

                  cause was referrd vntill the first of decembr

                    To the Leaftenant Generall: humble petit. Blanch Howell:

                  Humbly sheweth:

                    Whereas Leonard Caluert Esqr deceased, in the tyme of the

                  warrs in this Prouince killed of yor petitionr a steere, aged six

                  yeares ould: when he returned Into this Prouince againe,

                  made promise to giue yor petitionr another steere of the same

                  age, now yor petitr craueth leaue, to produce her wittness that

                  she may proceed for a triall wth his executor And yor peti:

                    to the petition of Blanch howell Mr Giles Brent appeered as

                  attorney for the sayd executors and claymed the priuilidg of an

                  Administrator

                    Ordered according to his desire

                    The depositio: of Nathaniell Pope taken in open Court, this

                  4th octob. 1647

                    This deponent sayth: That iust vppon his goeing to Kent,

                  imployed as Agent to the sd Iland by the late Gouern' Caluert

                  in March last he advised the sd Gouernr to allow John Hampton,

                  who was the same tyme to goe, in the Boate wth the sayd Nath:

                  vppon the sayd imployment, some incouragement, by way of

                  wages for his sayd voyage: who the sayd Gouerr Caluert then

                  replyed, he had already promised the sd John Hampton flue

                  hundred weight of tobb: for his paynes imployed in the sayd

                  voyage and ffurther he deposeth not:

                    5th Octobr ffrancis Brookes of the lie of Kent: demandeth of

                  John Hampton of tobb: dew vppon accompt:

                    Attach: to the sheriff: retur prmo decembr

                5th Octo: ffrancis Brookes of the lie of Kent, demandeth of

                  Cuthbert ffenicke gent, executor of Henry Brookes Merchant,

                  one man seruant and 2300 l of tobb: by bill and accomt dew to

                  hym:

                    Attach: to the Sherife of Kent: retur prmo die decembr

                     To the Hnobl: Tho: Greene Esqr and Captaine Generall of

                         the Prouince of Maryland.

                    The humble petition of Nicholas Ketin and James Lynsey:

                  Humbly sheweth: That yor petitionrs weare hired by Capt

                  Giles Brent Esqr: for Mr Gilmot in Anno Dom: 1643 and yor

                  petitionrs weare to haue for thire hire one Cow and Calfe a

                  peece and an oxe, wch yor petitionrs neuer receved, but one