50     Court and Testamentary Business, 1638.

            Liber Z. had acknowledged & affirmed that the survivor of them two

               p. 88 (meaning James Hitches & Thomas Hebden) should have all;

                  (meaning the others estate) and that Thomas Hebden being in

                  danger of sicknes had left all by will to James Hitches; and

                  that since the said agreemt he had heard the said James

                  Hitches acknowledge that the survivor of them should have

                  all. and he further testified that since the agreemt mentioned,

                  he heard the said Thomas Hebden tell the said James Hitches

                  of a bargaine of the plantation wch he desired to make wth one

                  Randoll Revell, to wch James Hitches dissented, & hereby the

                  bargaine was stopped

                    there was produced also on the pt of the deft Robt Percy &

                  sworne, who testified that he heard the said James Hitches

                  since the said agreemt complaine of the said Thomas Hebden

                  touching some accompts betwixt them: to wch the depont

                  answering, what need you trouble yorselfe so much in it, seing

                  Thomas Hebden saith he is to have halfe of all you have, the

                  said James replied, as it were making strange at it; well let

                  him looke to himselfe if he play the knave wth me I can play

                  the knave wth him. I can cleale wth him as he deales wth mee.

                  he further testified that some few dayes afore his death coming

                  in to him after Tho. Hebcien had beene wth him, the said James

                  Hitches told the deponent that he had reckoned wth Tho.

                  Hebden & that Tho. Hebden had franckly acknowledged 700 l

                  Wt of tobacco; & that when he remembred him of some other

                  things, he excused himselfe that he had forgott them, & that

                  they amounted to vpwards of 900. weight. and that since he

                  had remembred some other things himselfe wch would make it

                  vp a thousand. & afterward at another time, he told the

                  deponent that now he had made an end & that he had a note

                  vnder his hand for 1000 l wt and that at the making of his

                  will this depont heard him tell the said Thomas Cornwaleys

                  that there was 1000 l of tobacco due to him from Tho: Hebden,

                  but he would have but 500 of him.

            Liber F. Novemb 2d 1638

                This clay came William Lewis Planter and made Oath that

                  he is not precontracted to any other woman then Ursula

                  Gifford, and that there is noe Impediment of Consanguinity

                  Affinity nor any other Lawfull Impediment to his knowledge

                  why he Should not be married to the Said Ursula Gifford and

                  further he acknowledgeth himself to owe unto the Lord

                  Proprietary one thousand weight of Tobacco, in Case there be

                  any precontract or other Lawfull Impediment whatsoever as

                  aforesaid either on the part of the Said William Lewis or the

                  Said Ursula Gifford

                                                 William Lewis