544    court and Testamentary Business, 1649—50.

              Liber A.  last day Item I give & bequeath vnto Tabitha Short the

                   daughter of Robert Short one Cowe to bee delivered to her

                   in the yeare of our Lord 1647. and to bee reserved and kept

                   both her and her Increase by the Executors of this Will vntill

                   she comes of Age. ffurther If the Executors of this my Will

                   shall thinke it burthensorne or hindrance to them whereby they

                   may Incurr any damage, that then if they please they may deliver

                   the Estate vnto the Church Wardens or other whom they shall

                   see good, otherwise my will is that they should keepe it and

                   enioy it themselues And soe God hlcsse them. I doe ordaine

                   Richard Purleuant Edward Comins and Robert Short to bee

                   my full Executors of my last Will and Testament and doe

                   charge them that they pforme this my Legacy and that my

                   debts bee satisfied out of my Estate And soe I pray God to

                   receive my Soule and send a Joyfull Resurreccon in the

                   Kingdome of Heaven

                   Signed in the prsence of vs.  Thomas x Arnold

                                            his Marke

                   Edward Langford. Richard R Ball Edward X Claxton

                                  his Marke    his Marke

                    20 ffebr. Mr Sturman I hane long expected the returne of

                   the seaven hundred waight of the best Virginia Tobacco. Wch

                   you were to send mee for the goods I sould you for wch you

                   are bound in a Bond of 25 l to performe, and seeing you haue

                   taken noe care to performe with mee I am inforced to take the

                   best course I can for the recovery of the money due vppon the

                   Bond And to that end I haue by a Lrë of Attorney given full

                   power vnto Mr Richard Husbands to vse in my stead all law-

                   full power for the recovery of the same With whom I haue

                   also sent yor Bond, that if you give him satisfaccon to deliver

                   Vpp the same and to discharge you thereof Thus hopeing to

                   haue a faire and a iust satisfaccon given to the said Mr Hus

                   bands without any violent course vsed Wch is the desire of yor

                   loving ffreind

                Willm ffreeman Indorsed To my loving ffreind

                   London the 7th Septemb. 1649  Mr Thomas Sturman &c.

             At a Court held at the Governors                Willm Stone Esqr Governor

                    House at St Michaells Hundred the Prént Capt John Pric20th of ffebruary 1619 Mr Thomas Hatton Secretary

                   Mr Thomas Sturman plte     The Plaintiffes suite being to

                   Mr Richard Husbands Marriner  bee releived concerning a Bond

                   Attorney of Mr Willm ffreeman deft heretofore entred into by the plte

              p. 318    to the said Mr William ffreeman of 251 penalty condiconed for

                   the paymt of seaven hundred waight of Tobacco. And the

                   said ffreeman having made the said defendt mr Husbands his At

                   torney to receive the same as appeares by the said ffreemans