58     Court and Testamentary Business, 1639.

             Liber Z. And the said Randoll vndertaketh & assumeth to pay all the

                  debts of the said Andrew Chappell within this Province; so far

                  as the estate extends. And further the said Randoll Revell

                  bindeth himselfe to cause all the goods & chattells wch were

                  Andrew Chappells at his decease to be sold at an outcry by

                  the Sheriff.

                    dec 31. day given to Randoll Revell for bringing in the

                  Inventary till first of March next.

                    27.     May 1640. Randoll Revell brought in his Accompt;

                  & was discharged of Admraon & Recognisance aforesaid.

                Whereas divers actions of debts & accompts have beene sued

                  & prosequuted in or Courts at St maries in Or Province of mary

                  land by severall Creditors agst Thomas Cornwaleys Esq one of

                  the Counsell of Or said Province, as Admrator of the estate of

                  Jerome Hawley late of St maries aforesaid Esq. deceased

                  intestate, and iudgement therevpon had & recovered in Or said

                  Courts; by the said Creditors agst the said Tho. Cornvaleys

                  Now at the request of the said Thomas Cornwaleys for an

                  authenticall certificate of the said severall iudgemts & recoveries,

                  out of the said Court Records; we doe hereby certifle, out of

                  the Records of Or Commissary general1 for causes testhtary that

                  the Admraon of the estate of the said Jerome Hawley was by

                  him committed vnto the said Tho. Cornwaleys who pretended

                  a great debt vpon the said estate by an assignment from John

                  Sims de Comit Somst Esq. & for proofe thereof to the end he

                  might be enabled to allow himselfe his said debt exhibited a

                  bill vnder the hand of the said Jerome Hawley wherin the

                  said Jerome Hawley acknowledged himselfe to have received

                  of John Sims de Comit Somst Esq 400 l sterling; and for proofe

                  of the said assignment & the reality of the said debt, produced

                  certaine witnesses whom he desired to be admitted & sworne

                  ad ppetuam rei memoriam; wherevpon on 27th August 1638

                  Eleanor Hawley widdow late wife of the said Jerome Hawley

                  and Thomas white of St maries Esq aged 60 yeares & vpwards

                  did by their corporall oath vpon the holy Evangelists taken

                  before Or said Commissary, depose and affirme, that the debt

                  of 400' sterling wch Jerome Hawley vpon his said bill did

                  acknowledge himselfe to have received of John Sims de

                  Comitat Somst Esq was after true & reall satisfaction made &

                  given for the same to the said John Sims by the said Tho:

                  Cornwaleys; assigned & sett over by the said John Sims vnto

                  the said Tho: Cornwaleys. wherevpon the said Thomas Corn

                  waleys moved that he might be allowed to pay himselfe the

                  said debt of 400 l sterling out of the estate of the said Jerome

                  Hawley; & was allowed.