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Thomas Adam de Kent in provincia de Maryland gent:
etatis 29. annor. aut eo circiter natus infra pochiam de Bo-
denham in Comitatu Herefordiae Testis in hac parte pro-
ductus Jurat: et examinat:
Ad 11. Articulum Allegations Dick et deponit That con-
cerning the accompts articulate this deponent hath seene and
perused them (and saith) for that parte of them which hath
beene since the said deponents arivall and imployments upon
the said Hand and sithence the said deponent keeping the
books the said deponent to the best of his remembrance be-
leiveth them to be true vid" in Ann: 1636. and 1637. and for
the accompts kept before this said deponent's arivall att the
said Hand this deponent cannot speake directly but conceiveth
them to be just and true, and that of his owne knowledge in
many particulers being privie to many payments and severall
charges and disbursements as servants wages, cloathes, ex-
penses in housekeepinge, expences in Boates, and appurte-
nances thereunto belonging and most of the particulers in the
aforesaid accompt expressed, all which were sett downe (as
this deponent verely beleeveth) in the common estimation of
men) at very easy and reasonable rates, and soe reasonable as
cannot be soe procured nowe by reason the said Clayborne
was forct to supply himselfe from Virginia of all such com-
modities as hee wanted, and that at dearer rates in reguard
the said Clayborne deferred to furnish himselfe with such
necessaryes as were necessarily wanting for the furnishing of
the said Plantation till the last shipping in expectation of sup-
plyes from the Merchants, and this deponent of his owne
knowledge saith that a man's cloathing yearely stands one in
£5. 10s and sometymes more and this deponent would yearely
allow soe much per head in Virginia but cannot soe be fur-
nished and further this deponent saith that allthough William
Cox the Carpenter's yeares labour is rated but at 20. in re-
guard of the love and affection the said Carpenter and others
did beare and wish to the said Clayborne, the said Carpenter's
yearely worke was worth as this deponent hath heard the said
Cox say divers tymes £100 sterling at the leaste And whereas
this deponent kept the bookes two yeares or thereabouts for
the said Clayborne upon the Ile aforesaid, out of a respective
love and affection to the said Clayborne for the valew of eight
pounds or thereabouts otherwise this deponent saith £40
sterling annually should not have given him satisfaction and
this deponent hath had the like of others, rather out of an
affection then benefitt to themselves the said Clayborne's
carying himselfe so affable and virtueous towards them, and
this deponent further deposeth not.
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