Court and Testamentary Business, 1648. 407

        En the name of god Amen. I Thomas Payne of Mary-Land Liber A.

      Plantr though weake & infirme of Body, yett in perfect sence

      & memory, thanks be to Ailmighty god, make this my last will

      & testament.

        1. ffirst, I bequeath my Soule to god, & my body to the

      earth.

        2. Secondly touching my wordly estate, I dispose of as fol

      loweth. I giue & bequeath unto my Exequutor my well

      beloved ifreind Mr Tho: Hebden of Mary-Land 600 l Tob: &

      cask, due to mee from Charles Smith of Yorke, in Virginia.

      And allso I giue & bequeath unto my beloued freind aforesd

      all the Tob: & Corne due to mee for my last yeares Sallary, &

      now in the hands of Mrs Margarett Brent. And further I giue

      & bequeath unto my beloued ifreind aforesd my gun now in

      the hands of Capt Jno Price together wth all my wearing appa

      rell, linnen, & woollen, & whatsoeur ells shall be fownd dewly

      belonging vnto mee.

        3. Thirdly I desyre my beloved freind aforesd shall first see

      satisfyed out of this, my true & proper debts, & in prticular to

      Henry Hooper 40 l Tob: to Jno Shirtcliffe for the making of a

      suite of cloathes. And this to my best knowledge is all tht I

      am engaged for in the world.

        And in wittnes tht this is my last will & Testamt I haue here

      unto sett my hand, the day & yeare aboue written.

      Signed in the prnce of     Sigd Thomas Payne

        Phillip Auder

        John Cage.

        This day came Mr Tho: Hebden, & brought into the Regis

      ters office, the foresd will & Testamt of Thomas Payne, deceased,

      & desyred some order whereby he might be authorized, to

      enter uppon the estate of the sd Thomas Payne, being, as

      appeares, by his will, the Exequutor of the sd Tho: Payne.

        Ordered by the Gouernor (the Judge of Testamentary causes

      not being att prnt wthin the pro:) tht the sd Tho: Hebden shall

      collect the sd estate, & cause it to be appraysed by the oaths

      of John Holfhead, & John Cage, & bring in a trew & prfect

      Inventory thereof wthin Ten dayes into the Registers office.

      And the true accompt thereof, whensoeur he shall be there-

      unto called, by the Judge of Testamentory causes wthin this

      prouince.

        Copie eiusden to Tho: Hebden.

        Tho: Hebden sworne by the Gour according to the Tenure

      of the Order.

                     August 25th 1648            p. 175

        Know all men by these prnts tht I Thomas Hebden doe