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      convenient speed, and that the Creditors be satisfied without Liber Z.

      delay their just and lawfull claymes according to right and

      aequity; have thought fitt and doe hereby ordeine you the said

      Tho: Cornwaleys to be Adffirator of the goods and chattells of

      the said Jerome Hawly; (vntill the said testament shalbe

      proved by the said exequutors) and therefore we doe hereby

      committ vnto you the Admration of all the rights debts goods

      and chattells whatsoever wch were the said Jerome Hawly's was

      within this Province at the time of his death; charging you by

      vertue of your oath made vnto vs into this behalfe that you

      make and exhibite to Or Secretarie a true and perfect Inventary

      of all the said goods & cattells within one moneth after the

      date hereof; that you well and truely pay and satisfie all the

      true and iust debts of the said Jerome Hawley (so far as the

      goods wth were the said Jerome Hawlies shall extend) according

      to the exigence of the lawes in this behalfe and that you make

      and exhibite to or said Secretary a true and faithfull Accompt

      of this yor Adffwaon whensoever you shalbe by him therevnto

      called. Given at St maries this 14th August 1638 witnesse

      John Lewger Secretary.

        Memorandum that this day came Thomas Cornwaleys Esq

      &c and acknowledgeth himselfe to owe vnto the Lord Proprie

      tarie of this Province and his heires one thousand pound sterling,

      to be levied vpon the lands goods and chattells of the said

      Thomas Cornwaleys &c

             The condition of this Recognisance is that if the said

           Thomas Cornwaleys shall well and truely performe the

           Commission of Administration of the goods and chattells

           of Jerome Hawley late Esq deceased, bearing date the

                day of August 1638 in all the severall contents

           thereof, wherewith the said Thomas Cornwaleys is

           charged in the said Commission, then this Recog

           nisance to be void, or els to stand in full force.

                                    Tho: Cornwaleys.

      Recogn coram me

        John Lewger Secretary

          This Recognisance is discharged

           John Lewger Secretary.

      14 August 1638                             p.77

        this day in a question depending in Court betweene John

      Lewger plt and Thomas Cornwaleys, deft touching certaine

      goods conveyed by a deed of gift made by mr Hawley late of

      St maries Esq deceased in England to John Sims of Pounsford

      in comit Somst Esq, and the possession of the same goods