448     Court and Testamentary Business, 1648.

             Liber A.   And being deposed addeth to his former oath, That Mr Brad

                   nox bid this Dept cutt of the eares from the hide, & bury them:

                   And bee this dept & Jno Mallharn did bury accordingly. And

                   further, That Mr Bradnox sayd, If it were knowne, hee could

                   but pay for it, att the worst. And the Jury goeing out againe,

                   Returned & requyred that the Euidence may bee againe

                   examined. alleaging tht he knew not what belonged to an

                   oath. wth was granted them, by the Gour & the Court. who

                   appoynted Mr Bretton to exaime him, who againe deposeth,

                   as followeth, the Jury being prnt.

                 213 That sometime in the Summer a yeare agoe, Jno Mallham

                   killed as hee thought 2 yeare old steere & upwards in Mr

                   Bradnox ffort att Kent. And tht all those tht lyued in the

                   howse helpe to driue the steere into the ffort. And tht the sd

                   Steere was knockd on the head wth an axe. And Jno Mallham

                   & Jno Palmer Head the Beast. And Mr Bradnox layd not his

                   hands therto, nor to the cutting up of the same, as bee re

                   members. And that this Dept was sett att Centinell, whilist

                   this was doeing. And assoone as it was Head, the eares was

                   cutt of, & buryed. But he remembreth not, whither Mr Brad

                   nox or some other, in the howse commanded the eares to bee

                   cutt of. And tht Mr Brad nox & his Wife allso, bid this Dept

                   nott to tell thereof. And tht it was all eate in hugger mugger.

                   And tht when the Gour & M' Brent were att Kent. Mr Bradnox

                   bid him, in his owne howse not to tell thereof.

                    And the Jury goeing againe to consider of it, Returned their

                   Verdict. Ignoramus.

                    Edward Commins complayneth agst ffrancis Brooks, for tht

                   the sd Brooks att a Court held att Henry Morgans howse on

                   the Ile of Kent 22o Junis recouered iudgmt agst the Complt

                   uppon an acct for 2041 l Tob & cask. WCh hee auerred uppon

                   oath to bee dew. But since tht time, the sd complt is able to

                   make proofe, tht the sd Brooks, hath taken a false & rash oath,

                   in part of the sd acct And hath allso imployed much time &

                   labour, much to his hinderance & dammage, to the ualew of

                   6000 l Tob & cask. And desyreth to bee releiued therein agst

                   the sd Brooks by order from this Court.

                    2. Warrts to the Sheriffe ret Jan. Court next, of Kent & St

                   Maries.

                    Know all men That I Mr Willm Tompson in the pro: of

                   Mary-Land, doe hereby acknowledge to haue bargayned &

                   sold unto Water Waterlin, a Cow, wch is allready deliuered.

                   The age of the sd Cow is 7 yeares, or therabouts, wth a slitt

                   on the right eare, & the left eare whole. Wch Cow I doe

                   hereby bind my selfe my heyres, Exequutors admistrators or