146 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.

        Liber B.   Shipping could not come in by the day limitted by the Cove-

              nant with other allegacons, And thereupon & upon Consider-

              acon had of the Defdts Covenant to deliver the Complt three

              Men Servants out of all the Servants he Should bring in to be

              chosen by the plt and noe men Servants being brought in

              whereby the plt might make his Choice according to the Cove-

              nant in regard of the great consideracon therein Menconed,

              The Court Conceiveing that the Complt ought in Conscience

              to have relief in that respect upon the Covenant as well as the

              Defdt in equity Doth therefore Order that the Compit Shall

              enjoy the Said Vincent Acheson of whome he is already possed

              for his full time of Service according to the Defdts assignment

              expressed in the Covenant, And that the Defdt Shall by

              to morrow at Noon bring five men Servants to the Court, that

              there may be Chosen out of them two Such Sufficient able

              Servants for the Compit as the Court Shall conceive may be

              answerable to the Covenant and the Consideracon therein

              menconed, And in defalt of bringing them in by that time

              or that they prove not Such as the Court Shall approve of for

              the purpose aforesaid, the Complt is then after forthwith to

              have other two Servants according to the assignment upon

              the Covenant before menconed

              ffrancis Van-enden plt Upon the Defdts mocon It is Ordered

              Capt Wm Mitchell Deft that the hearing of this Cause be respited

              till the next Court who is in the mean time to make ready his

              proofs preremptorily.

          p. 279   Wm Marshall plt The plt Sues for eighty pounds remaining due

              Wm Edis Defdt of a Bill for a greater Sume the plt having de-

              livered up the Bill to the Defdt upon his promise to Satisfie

              him the Said remainder, To which the Defdt Confesseth there

              was eighty pounds of Tobacco unpaid after the Bill was deliv-

              ered up and Saith according to the pits appointment he allowed

              it him in Mr Husband's hands, And the Court upon mocon

              made on the pits behalf doth respite the further hearing of the

              Cause till the next Court who is then to produce his proofes.

              Capt Wm Mitchell plt The Complts Suit being for a heifer with

              Mr Phillip Land Deft her Increase which the Defdt by Covenant

              under his hand was to have delivered to the plt by the last of

              April 1651, the plt lending the Deft a man to bring her to St

              Thomas's the pits then dwelling house, And the Defdt acknowl-

              edgeing the Covenant, It is Ordered that the Deft Shall within

              one Month now next ensueing deliver to the Compit a heifer

              with Calf or a Calf by her Side, at the house aforesd the plt

              lending him a Man to help bring her hither, if it be required,