150 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.

         Liber B.   hath not long Since caused divers wild unmarked Bulls and

               other Cattle to be killed upon the Isle of Kent without any

               Lawfull warrant for Soe doing, To which Cattle his Lordp

               hath been and is understood to have title, And Whereas I am

               also given to understand, that the Said Mrs Mary Brent hath

               lately transported Some quantity of the beef so killed as afore-

               said from Kent hither to the house where Mr Thomas Mat-

               thews now liveth and intends to dispose of the Same to her

               own use, These are therefore in the Lord Propriary's to will

               and require you forthwith to repair to the house of the Said

               Mr Matthews, and what Meat you Shall there or in any other

               place within this County find to have been lately transported

               by the Said Ms Mary Brent from Kent to make Stoppage

               thereof or Secure the Same either in the Sd Mr Matthews's

               Custody or otherwise as you Shall think fitt till the Said Mrs

           p. 283   Mary Brent Shall by herself or her Attorney at Some Court

               to be held for this County of St Maries make it appear by what

               authority She caused the Said Cattle to be killed, and what

               right She hath to the Said Beef by her Soe transported as

               aforesaid Soe as his Lordship may have Justice therein as is

               meet, And for this Purpose the Said Mr Matthews (in Case

               the Said be or Shall be in his house) is hereby Strictly charged

               and required not to permitt the Same or any part thereof to

               be removed thence by the Sd Mrs Brent or any other till a

               tryall be had therein and other direccon by the Court as he

               will Answer the Contrary thereof, fail you not at your Peril,

               Given at St Maries this last day of January 1651

               To the Sherriff of St Maries County

               his Deputy or Deputies

                The Deposition of William Boreman taken the fourth day

               of ffebruary 1651 being Summoned on the behalf of the Lord

               Proprietary Sworn and examined Saith

                That he this Deponent being Imployed by Capt Giles Brent

               to kill any Cattle at Kent either Marked or unmarked which

               belonged to him there did according to his appointment

               and the direccon of Mrs Mary Brent his Sister and Attorney,

               with Some help of John Deer therein Since June last kill five

               Wild unmarked Bulls then in the woods at Kent and likewise

               three marked Bulls two of them being Crop't of both Ears and the

               third as he taketh it being Cropped on the left Ear and under-

               keel'd on the right and also one Oxe killed by John Deere, the

               mark whereof this Deponent knoweth not, And this Depont

               further Deposeth. that the Cattle before menconed are all the

               Cattle either Marked or unmarked which Soe far as this De-

               pont knows have been killed at Kent either for the Said Capt

               Brent or Mrs Margtt or Mary Brent his Sisters or by any of