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       to be given for the time he hired the Said Servant being Six Liber B.

       hundred pounds of Tobacco and Cask Shall forthwith Satisfie

       and pay unto the Said Mr Thomas Daynes Six hundred and

       fifty pounds of Tobo and Cask for twenty Six days time which

       he detained the Said Servant after the Expiracon of the time

       he Soe hired him as afd & in respect of the Said Johnson's de-

       taining of the Said Servant beyond the Said time which is

       conceived to have occasioned the Said Suits he is to pay the

       charges of Court in both Causes

   Wm Smoot plt      Sedo Dec present as aforesd

       James Johnson Dedt The former Order being read and it ap-

       pearing that noe Satisfaction has been yet made to the plt for

       the Bull Segg in question as was directed by the former Order

       It is therefore Ordered that the Defdt Shall pay unto the Corn-

       playnt four hundred pounds of Tobacco and Cask for the Said

       Bull Segg Soc killed, by him And the Court declares that the

       price is Something Mittigated in regard of the Offensiveness

       of the beast, which is not intended to be any precedent for the

       future to give any Incouragement for the killing of another

       man's beast without a Lawfull warrt

              The Deposition of John Meredith aged 27.

              years or thereabouts Sworn and examined

              in open Court the 23th day of December 1651 Saith

       That being at St Inego's two or three days before Mr Daynes

       went away, this Depont delivered the Said Daynes a note from

       Mr John Sturman concerning the Cowper's time he under-

       standing he had not Soe long to Serve as the Sd Sturman had

       bargained with the Said Daynes for, At the return of the

       Answer of the Said Note the Said Daynes did maintain that

       the Said Cowper had two years and a half to Serve, and at the

       Expiracon of the Said time to have ten pounds Sterling which

       the Said Sturman was to pay unto the Sd Cowper and When p. 246

       his time was expired which he had hired him out for to William

       Johnson which was the 18th of October as the Sd Daynes

       affirmed that then the Said Dayne's his Cozen Mee Should

       fetch him and deliver him to the Said Sturman, And the Said

       Mee to take bill of the Said Sturman for 2500 and Cask or to

       this effect, and further Saith not.

                 ffor Mr John Sturman this dd

         John Sturman this my note doth give you full power to

       receive the Cowper from William Johnson with his Tools he

       hath with him there, and the remainder my Cozen Mee hath to

       deliver you, and a pair of Shoes, this being al at present I rest.

                                         Tho Daynes

       I desire you to give my Cozen Mee a

       receipt wth a Bill for 2500 l of Tob & Cask