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      of Dead freight, proved by the plfs: oath, one hundd & sixty Liber A.

      pownds of casked Tob: being proportionable to the whole

      freight agreed uppon.

        Zachary Wiade sayth uppon his oath in open Court, That a

      Red Cow, now in the possess of Capt Robt Vaughan, & lately

      gyuen by the late Gout deceased. unto the sd Capt Vaughan,

      by informaon tht it was one of his Lps stock: was att tht time

      none of his stock, but a Beast belonging to Mr Brent being

      one of them, tht was ceased to the Ld Proprs use, & allotted to

      Mr Brents share, out of Capt Cleyborne's cattle.

        Capt Giles Brent complayneth agst Capt Robt Vaughan for

      wrongfully deteyning a Cow, & her encrease of the sd Capt

      Brents from him. from the yeare 1644 to this prnt day.

        Zachary Wiade sayth uppon his oath in open Court, tht im

      mediately uppon the beginning of those troubles of this pmouince

      Mr Willm Cox came unto this deponent, being then in Mr

      Brents feud att Kent howse; & told him tht Mr Brent in the

      time of his being Gouernor had taken his cattle from him, &

      tht now he must haue them againe. And further tht he must

      haue a Cow of Mr Brent's owne stock in satisfaction for a Cow

      of his stock tht was myred, not long afore in the possesn of the

      sd Mr Brent. And tht further the sd Mr Cox asked this Dept

      to tell him, wch was a good Cow, of Mr Brent owne stock but

      whether hee had any such Cow he knoweth not. & further he

      sayeth not.

        Vppon the complaynt abous the Dft denyeth to detayne

      any such cattle from the sd Mr Brent, But the Beast pretended

      vnto by the plf, was gyuen unto the dft, by the late Govt de

      ceased, as one belonging to his LPS stock.

        Vppon euidence produced vppon oath, tht the Cow in ques

      tion was not att tht time of his Lps stock, but of Mr Brents stock.

      The Gout iudged tht the deft should returne the sd Cow, wth

      her knowne encrease, unto the plf.

        Henry Morgan Sheriffe of Kent County complayneth agst

      Tho: Munday for comming to exequute his office, in a com

      mand layd uppon him by the Comder of the sd County, much

      to the safety of the whole prouince, did wth uiolence presenting

      a gun agst him, wthstand the exequuon of the foresd command;

      bidding him goe from his howse about his busines: who after

      ward persisting in the exequuon of his office, was struck by

      the sd Munday. And therefore prayeth tht hee may haue re

      dresse from this Court, for the iniury susteyned therein.

        Vppon the complaynt aforesd Thomas Munday deft, denyeth p. 165