412     Court and Testamentary Business, 1648.

            Liber A.   depending betweene Robt Smith & Walter Beane ret. Octobr

                  Court.

                    Septembr 30th Edward Hull aged 28 yeares or thereabouts

                  deposed, sayth That hee did see George Manners sometime in

                  July last strike a Sow on her side, belonging unto Edw: Hall

                  wth an axe; But whither the sd sow did dye, by the sd blow, or

                  not, he knoweth not. And further he sayth not.

                  Jurat. coram Gour                Edw: Hull.

                    October 2d The Deposition of Henry Potter aged 29 yeares

                  or thereabouts deposed, sayth That to his knowledge, he hath

                  seene 2 of Edward Halls' sowes shrewdley hurt, as he thinketh

                  wth an axe or hoe. And further sayth, tht hee did heare

                  George Manners acknowledge That hee did throw one tyme

                  an axe or hoe (he remembreth not whether) att Edw: Hall's

                  hogs, finding them in the Come feild. And this he did heare

                  George Manners say, before he knew the swine to be hurt.

                  And this past to the best of his remembrance sometime in

                  July last. And further he sayth not.

                                                  Henry Potter.

                       Jurat cora Gour

             Interrogatories on the behalfe of G. Manners uers Edw:

                                  Hall &c:

                    1. whither or noe you haue not heard Edward Hall promise

                  to giue George Manners satisfaction for any dammage his hogs

                  should doe in the sd Manner's Corne feild.

                    2. Whither or noe to yor knowledge the sd Edw: Hall did

                  not send word dyuers times unto the sd George Manners, That

                  what dammage his hogs did, he the sd Hall would giue the sd

                  Manners two for one.

               p. 180. 3d Whither or noe uppon condicon of penning up the

                  hogs, the sd Edw: Hall was to looke to them, one such dayes

                  as the sd George Manners went to Church.

                    4th whither or floe, during the absence of the sd G. Manners

                  being at Church, this Dept did see, the sd Edw: Hall cast downe

                  the hog-pen doare, & lett the hogs out.

                    5. Whither or noe, the sd Edw: Hall comming next morning

                  to feede the hogs fownd them in the pen, or in the corne.

                    In answere to the foresd Interg. Henry Potter deposeth &

                  sayth

                    To the first. That he neuer heard him the sd Edw: Hall say,

                  hee would giue him the sd G. Manners any satisfaction for his

                  corne. But for his pumkin Vines, wch then the hogs of the

                  sd Edward Hall had spoyled, he would satisfy the sd Manners