482    Court and Testamentary Business, 1649.

            Liber A. Thomas Hamper examined uppon oath in open Court att

                  the request of George Manners, whither hee eu heard Mrs

                  Margarett Brent undertake to satisfy the wages of his

                  Garryson her owne estate? In answere whereunto he

                  deposeth tht hee neuer heard any such words from her.

              p.  246 William Bretton gent and Walter Pakes planter doe hereby

                  bynd themselves Jointly and severally to the right hoble Cecilius

                  Lord Baron of Baltemore Lord Proprietary of this Province in

                  the some or quantity of ffifty thousand pound weight of good

                  and merchantable Tobacco as a security that Phillipp Land the

                  nowe high Sheriffe of the County of St Maries shall iustly and

                  truely in all things pforme and execute the said Office of Sheriffe

                  for the said County for this prsent yeare and shall give a iust

                  and true Accompt of all Come and Tobacco & other things

                  wch bee shall gather and receive by Vertue of his said Office.

                  In witnes whereof they have herevnto put theire hands this

                  sixteenth day of Aprill Anno dfli 1649. Willm Bretton

                                                  Walter Pakes.

                  Recognit coram me

                   Tho: Hatton Secr.

                    April 20m0 Whereas after Judgment and execucon an Extent

                  issued out directed to the Sheriffe of St Maries County the 7th

                  day of January last at the suite of Capt Wm Stone against the

                  lands of Mr Thomas Weston within the said County for 21600 l

                  of Tobacco the said Capt Stone doth declare that for the present

                  hee will charge the said lands with noe more then 14000 l of

                  Tob: in expectacon to receive satisfaccon for the remainder of

                  the said Execucon some other way.

                    Be it knowne vnto all men by these prsents that I william

                  Stiles doe binde myself my heires Executors Administrators

                  or Assignes firmely by these prsents to pay or cause to bee

                  paid to John Slingesby or his heires executors Administrators

                  or Assignes or whom hee shall appoint the iust some of 2000 l

                  of sound Tobacco and Caske due to bee paid the last of October

                  next at the nowe dwelling house of Walter Pakes, And for the

                  better security and paymt of the Tobacco I the aboue named

                  Stlhes doe bind over my whole cropp of Corne Tobacco with all

                  other things that I shall make this insueing yeare, and in case

                  the Cropp doth not hold out to pay the same then the said

                  Styles is to make good the Tobacco with his service. In case

                  hee cannot put mee in such security that I shall like of with

                  five & twenty in the hundred for damage And in case that

                  the sald Stiles should dye then the said Slingesby is to have his

                  servant againe for her full terme of service and is to keepe her