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the said Claiborne replyed that for his owne parte and as farre
as yt any way concerned him the said Claiborne, he would not
assigne over the said Plantation or anie of the servants or
goods unto him the said Evelin, whereupon the said Evelin
replyed that he did not care to have any such assignment from
him the said Claborne for that he would recover them by lawe or
words to that effect and that within a day or two after, the said
Claiborne went for England, And that the said Evelin both
while the said Claibornes aboad on the said Hand, and after
his departure for England, the said Evelin did freely dispose
and order all the said Plantation and the goods and servants
as hee thought good, And further deposeth not.
Ad 23. Articulum dicit et deponit That the said Evelin
being aboard the Pinnace Elizabeth in the Bay of Virginia in
or about the month of May 1637 was by the said Claiborne
demanded that both he the said Evelin and the said Claiborne
might signe underwrite and deliver each to other the Inventorie
of the Estate of the said Cloberrie and Companie and the said
Evelin then and there denied to doe the same or to give any
bond as aforesaid for the true conserveing of the foresaid estate,
servants and Plantations according to a Proviso in the end of
the foresaid letter of Atturney from the said Cloberry and
Murhead to the said Evelin, which letter of Atturney the said
Evelin then first shewed the said Claiborne and this deponent,
All which demands of the foresaid Claiborne from the said
Evelin, with severall other particulars then done and acted,
were then testified in a writing under the hand of this deponent
and divers others.
Ad 25. Dicit et deponit That the said Evelin did about June
1637 : goe to the Governor and Councell of Virginia att James
Citty, and there shewed his letter of Atturney from the said
Clobery and Murhead upon sight whereof, and upon the
petition of the said Evelin, the said Governor and Councell of
Virginia granted theire warrants for the seizing on the goods
and boates in that Colony, which belonged to the said Clobery
and Company or to the said Claiborne, which said warrants
were accordinglie executed, and the said Evelin did by vertue
of the said Warrants seize upon the Pinnace Elizabeth then
riding against James Citty, And that the said Governor and
Councell att the Petition of the said Evelin did then require
and take bond of this deponent with condition that he should
not meddle or oppose the said Evelin in any thing that he did
concerneing the estate of the said Clobery and Company
which Condition this deponent afterwards observed, and did
not doe any thing to the contrary on the behalfe of the said
Claiborne or otherwise.
Ad 26. Dicit et deponit That the said Evelin about Mid-
somer 1637 did come to the said Plantation and Ile of Kent
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