Court and Testamentary Business, 1648. 401

         This acct was sworne to bee a true & just acct before us by Liber A.

       Jno Hansford the iith of Aprill 1648

                                     Signed

                                        Richard Lee

                                        Henry Lee

         30 August. Jno Dandy demandeth of Tho: Ashbrooke p. 169

       security to bare him harmelesse from all claimes, tht shall come

       agst him in Virginia, by reason of his transport, out of tht

       Colony into Mary-Land.

         wart to the Sheriffe

         These prnts wittnes tht I haue gyuen unto Mr Coxes two

       Children Elizabeth Cox, & Willm Cox, two Cowes, & their

       calfes, one of them a Cow calfe now appoynted, & marked out

       for them, & by me dd to their use, into the hands of Tho:

       Greene Esqr to the intents following. All the female encrease

       Wth the 3d two Cowes to be preserued & raysed up, for a stock,

       for the children, untill eyther of them shall bee fifteene yeares

       of age, & att tht age, first the sd Elizabeth; after the sd Willm

       to haue their equall share of the sd female cattle, deliuered up,

       by the sdI Tho: Greene Esqr or his assignes into her, & his

       hands. If eyther of the sd children shall chance to dye, before

       the sd age, then their part of the sd ifemale cattle to goe to the

       other child. But if both shall dye, then all the sd cattle to be

       returned againe to my selfe, my executors or admistrators or

       my heyres. The sd Tho: Greene, & his assignes to have all

       the male cattle & milk for keeping the sd stock, for the s chil

       dren & for keeping the sd children; wch by his receauing the

       sd cattle to these uses, he or they shall, bee bownd to doe, if

       att any time they shall want other maintenance. But if on

       notice of their such want, gyuen, the sd Tho: Greene or his

       assignes shall not be willing to mainteine the sd children; then

       he shall putt the sd ifemale cattle into the hands of Mrs Marga

       ret, or Mrs Mary Brent, to their meintenance. Or in case of

       their death, or absence into such hands, as the Prouinciall

       Court of this pro: of Mary-Land shall appoynt for meintenance

       of the sd children. June 30th 1643. per me Signed

                                        Giles Brent

       In the prnce of Vs

         Paul Simpson

         Robt Vaughan

         Ralph Crouch.

         Interrogatories exhibited agst Edw: Commins of Kent by

       George Manners &c:

         1. Whither you did heare George Manners Sheriffe for-