488     Court and Testamentary Business, 1649.

            Liber A. 2da Junij Be it knowen vnto all men by these prsents that I

                  William Bretton of Newtowne in the Province of Maryland

                  gent have sold and delivered and by these prsents doe sell

                  deliver and make over vnto Richard Bennett of the same place

                  Planter for a valuable consideracon two Cowes and two bull

                  Calfes by theire sides marked with my owne proper Marke

                  viz, over and vnderkeeld the right Eare (comonly called a

                  ifiower de Luce) and cropt on the left Eare. named Good Luck

                  being five or six yeares old, and Small Cole being three or

                  fower yeares old And further I the said William Bretton doe

                  hereby Warrant & mainetaine the sale of the said Cattle

                  vnto him the said Richard Bennett his heires or Assignes for

                  ever against all lust claymes in Lawe Whatsoever Witnes my

                  hand                            Willm Bretton

                  Testes Richard Browne

                  At a Court held at St Maries Venris     Thomas Greene Esqr Governor

                  primo Junij 1649   prsent Capt John Price Mr Thomas Hatton Hatton Secretary

                   Vppon the Accon of Phillipp Land Plte vrsus Mrs Margaret

                  Brent deft being for 301 l of Tob: and caske due vppon

                  Accompt, the defendant confessing the debt The Court doth

                  order that shee make paymt thereof.

                   In the Cause betwixt Marks Pheypo and Nicholas Keeten

                  pltes and ffrancis Pope deft being for a parcell of land for wch

                  the plte Pheypo alleadgeth hee had a Warrant of Survey wch

                  (as appeared) was not executed, but the same was afterward

                  surveyed and laid out for the deft who hath built and cleered

                  therevppon. The Court sawe noe cause to releive the plte

                  herein And ordered that the Cause should stand dismissed.

                   In the Cause betwixt Marks Pheypo and Nicholas Keeten

                  pites against James Johnson deft, the matter of Complaint

                  being vppon the same grounds as that against ffrances Pope

                  The Court likewise ordered that the same should bee dismissed.

                   The matter in question betweene Mrs Margarett Brent on

                  the behaulf of Mrs Ewre plf and Anthony Rawlins deft being

                  for a Heifer wch as the plfe alleadgeth the deft had by a private

                  Conveyance from Wm Hardwich and wch did never belong to

                  the said Hardwich or Thomas Sturman but as she probably

                  beleiveth vnto Mr Ewre. Vppon debate whereof and vppon

              p. 252   oath made This Court conceived there was some probability

                  that the said Heifer was one of Mrs Ewres stock and might

                  have beene heretofore plundred, and doth therefore order

                  that the said William Hardwich shall by Michas next