428     Court and Testamentary Business, 1648.

            Liber A. This day the ffreemen of the County of St Maries mett to

                  gether att the Gours to aduise touching the Leuy of the charges

                  incurred this prnt yeare, & determined by the Gour & Coun

                  cell, on the 9o Octobr last, to be leuyed out of the County.

                  The whole charge amounting to 7752 l Tob & Cask. The

                  ffreemen alleage tht the charge for imprisonment of the Indians,

                  is unduely layd uppon the County; But alleged not any thing

                  materiall for it. Whereuppon the Gour fownd noe reason to

                  alter the former order sett downe by the Gour & Councell as

                  aboue. As concerning the manner of leuying the sd charge.

                  The ffreemen unanimously agreed, & concluded tht it should

                  be leuyed uppon all the Tytheable prsons, Inhabts of St Maries

                  County equally pr head, tht were resyding in the County from

                  the tenth of June last wch resulteth to 55 l Tob.

                               June 14th 1648

                    19th Octobr Edward Packer sayth uppon his oath, tht he

                  neur did serue any Exequuon uppon any of the Tob: of Capt

                  Tho: Cornwalleys, to the use of Mr Leon: Calurt Esqr assigned

                  unto him by Mrs Margarett Brent. And further he sayth not

                                         Jurat Cora Gou'

                                June 7o 1648.

                    These prnts wittnes tht I Thomas Gerrard Esqr for me my

                  heyres, & assignes haue released Mrs Margarett Brent Admis

                  trator of Leon: Calurt Esqr & her heyres & assignes from all

                  debts, dues & demands apprteyning unto me, out of the estate

                  of the sd Leon: Calurt Esqr from the beginning of the world

                  unto this prnt day. Wittnes my hand.      Signed

                                             Tho: Gerrard

                  Wittnes

                                Giles Brent

                    William Eltonhed.

              p.  Mrs Margarett Brent hath made complt agst Anthony Raw

                  lins for making a pryuate conueyance wth Willm Harditch of a

                  blackish heighfer, wth a white Belly marked Cropd one eare, &

                  slitt & underkeeld the other eare wch sd heighfer did not eur

                  belong to the sd Harditch, or Tho: Sturman. Butt as shee

                  probably beleiueth, belongeth unto Mrs Ewre

                    warrt to the Sheriffe to the Tenure of writt supra pag. 191

                  in caa Giles Brent uers Ant: Rawlins & Willm Harditch, ret

                  Decembr Court.

                    Octob. 20th This day came John Garbo of New-Towne in

                  the pro: of Mary-Land, and acknowledgeth to haue gyuen, one

                  Reddish Cow Calfe marked, Crop'd on the left eare; And a