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        doe me the favour to referr the hearing of the Cause between Liber B.

        us, till the October Court, at which time I will not fail to be

        down, and you Shall thereby oblige unto you Sr

                              Your Most humble Servt

                                      Margarett Brent

        Aprill 28th 1651.

        Sr

              To the Right Worshipll Willm Stone &c

          I did heretofore Set you a price of the house at St Maries,

        on which you did enter, and did then deferr the assurance of

        it to you till I had taken advice of my brother to whome I was

        then goeing, after which I Sent you assurance Conveying my

        whole title you which then you ought to have accepted or to

        have relinquished your pretence of buying, And this I did

        before you had Incurred any charge upon the thing, as I Shall

        prove by Sufficient Witness I now desire you to know that I

        am deeply Sensible of the loss, and trouble you have thrown

        upon me in this business by your keeping of my house and

        Land from me, and not paying me any price for it, And there-

        fore to disengage My Selfe out of further trouble, I am now

        compelled to require you to Signifie unto me or to Mr

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        your acceptance of the house and Land upon my Conveyance

        of my title unto you which I am now ready to make and is but

        that of Mr Calvert's Admt and which I will not fortify by any

        bond or warranty, If you give me not notice of your accept-

        ance of it, I doe here declare to you that I will be disengaged

        of the bargain which I then profered you and now profer you

        of it, and free to dispose of my house to my best profit, I

        beseech you Sr fail not to lett me know your resolucon in it I

        commend my Service to you & rest

        Peace July 10th 1651 Your humble Servt Margaret Brent

          Know all men whome it may concern that I Thomas Johnson

        Merchant doe testifie, that Whereas there was an agreemt and

        bargain made between Mrs Margarett Brent and Capt Wm

        Stone Governor of Maryland for one house & roo acres of

        Land with all things thercunto belonging at St Maries formerly

        belonging unto Governor Calvert late deceased, And in Con-

        sideration thereof the Sd Captain Stone was content to allow

        her four thousd and five hundred weight of Merchantable

        Tobacco upon Condicon she would engage herself her heirs

        Extors Admrs or assignes to defend him the Said Capt Stone

        his heirs Extors Admrs or assignes from all Just claimes and

        demands that Shall or may hereafter arise, unto which I doe

        hereby testifie the said Mrs Brent did Condescend unto and