418     Court and Testamentary Business, 1648.

            Liber A.             Vppon the demand of Tho: Bushrode plf,

                  Att a Court held att

                   St Maries 50 Octobr   uers. Giles Brent deft Mr Jno Lewger sonne

                   Prnt Gouernor C. G. Brent       of Mr Jno Lewger principall in the sd bill,

                    being requested by the sd Giles Brent to ayde

                  him in the foresd cause, declares tht the sd bill was dischargeable,

                  as appears by endorsmt thereon, by the putting of bills, to ualew

                  of 5000 l Tob. into Nath: Popes hands before may next following

                  the date thereof. And tht the sd Nath. Pope before the foresd

                  May tooke bills & goods, from his ffather Mr Jno Lewger prin

                  cipall in tht bill, to far greater ualew. Therfore he prays tht

                  his ffather, & Mr Giles Brent the security may be discharged

                  from tht Bill.

                    The sd Giles Brent answers to the sd suite tht he being carryed

                  uniustly into England prisoner att the day when the Bill was

                  due, could not therfore make tender here of the due summe att

                  the due day. But is still ready to make paymt of the summe

                  shall be fownd dew. Therfore desyres to be discharged from

               p. 185 the forfeiture of the sd Bond. And further sayth tht the sd

                  Bushrode nor his Attorney, to the best of the defts knowledge

                  neur vntill feb. or March last demanded the sd debt, in Mary

                  Land where it is payable by the Bill, allthough Mr Lewger,

                  principall in the bill, was here lyuing for one whole yeare or

                  more therfore the deft desyres, to be cleared from all dammages

                  & interests for non paymt of the Bill.

                    ffurther the deft alleageth, tht contrary to right the plf arrested

                  the sd Giles Brent in Virginia for the Tob: payable here by the

                  Bill & putt him to charge 144 l Tob: & cask & receaued from

                  him more 2000' wth cask. The difference of valew betweene

                  wch & soe much in Mary-Land wth the charge of transport,

                  being as he the sd Giles Brent esteems 1000 l Tob more The sd

                  Giles Brent deft desyres tht he may haue discounted from what

                  shall be fownd due on the Sd Bill, if the Bill shall not be fownd

                  wholly discharged uppon the allegaon of the foresd Jno Lewger.

                    Capt Giles Brent declareth uppon his oath (to the best of his

                  remembrance) tht this bond was neur demanded of him in

                  Mary-Land vntill such time as the prnt Attorney of Mr Busrode,

                  Mr ffenwicke demanded it of him, wth he thinks was in ffeb: or

                  March last.

                    The plf desyreth tht foresd cause be respited untill Decembr

                  Court, wch was granted him

                    Uppon the demand of Rich: Joanes of Kent plf. uers Robt

                  Simkin deft for 500 l casked Tob. respited till next Court.

                    Vppon the demandu of Cuth: ffenwick plf, uers his LPS At

                  torney deft for 1000 l Tob. for the hyre of a Sloope. The deft