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P. R. O.
Colonial
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Ad 20. Articulum Allegations Dicit et deponit That of his
owne knowledge the said George Eveline landed at the said
Ile first about the month of December 1636 and was very
earnest in speaking severall tymes to this deponent and divers
others upon the said Hand against the pretended right of the
Marylanders to the said Plantation and trade, and did as this
deponent hath heard by divers speake ill language of the Gov-
ernor of Maryland and this deponent haveing some discourse
with the said Eveline concerning the streingth of the Patent for
the said Ile the said Eveline replyed that the said Commission
from the king and the king's letters in confirmation thereof
were very firme and strong against the Maryland Patent or
words to that purpose.
Ad 22. articulum Allegations Dicit et deponit that the said
Clayborne in or about the 18th of May 1637. being in prepar-
ation to goe for England (did there in the presence and hearing
of divers Freemen and servants assembled together upon the
said Hand) make offer unto the said Eveline uppon condition
that the said Eveline would seale unto the said Clayborne for
the use of the said Clobery and Company a bond of three
thousand pounds sterling not to alienate or sell the said Plan-
tation or Hand or any other parte thereof unto the Marylanders
or any others, and not remove or carry any of the servants from
the said Hand. That then the said Clayborne would deliver
unto the said Eveline all the goods, servants or whatsoever
belonged to the said Clobery and Company in the said Joynt
stocke, according to an Inventory thereof made and prepared
by the said Clayborne, and the said Eveline, of which each had
a Coppy, But the said Eveline then and there denied and
refused (in the hearing of this deponent) to give any such
bond, whereupon the said Clayborne replied that for his owne
parte, and as farr as any way it concerned him, he would not
assigne the said Plantation or any of the servants or goods,
unto the said Eveline, whereupon the said Eveline replied, (in
the hearing of the said deponent and divers others upon the
said Ile) that he did not care to have any such assignment from
the said Clayborne, and that he would recover them by Lawe,
and that immediately after the said Clayborne departed for
England, and the said Eveline while the said Clayborne was
there, freely disposed and ordered the said Plantation, with the
goods, and servants as he thought good, and did appoynt the
saidservants theire Labours in severall companyeswhoe followed
and obeyed the said Evelines directions as this deponent very
well knoweth in reguard this deponent was an Inhabitant in
the same house at that tyme.
Ad 23. Articulum Allegations Dicit et deponit That the
said Evelint on the 21. of the aforesaid month of Mayor there-
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