Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50. 59

      ofi his Cloaths to his Wastcoat Shirt and Stockings after they Liber B.

      had tooke Some view of him buried him And the Said Deponts

      Jones and Kitchin further upon their Oaths Say, that they Saw

      noe Sign of any bruise or hurt the sd Clifford had at all when

      they Soe buried him, And the Sd Deponts all of them Say upon

      their Oaths that they doe not know of any Cause, the Said

      John Clifford had, by ill usage from his Master or other ways

      to Cast away himself as it appears to them he did, but that he

      rather had better usage and more favour and respect from the

      Sd Master Brooke their Master then the rest of his Servants,

      then otherwise, And that the reason why he was put to beat at

      the Mortar as they conceive was because their Sd Master found

      he was not Soc able to work at the hoe as the rest, & that he

      hadi beat at the Mortar about a fortnight before he was

      drowned and about three times a week, and only one bushell

      of Corne at a time or about that quantity, And these Deponents

      further all of them Say, that they verily believe that there was

      not any person of the Said Mr Brookes's house Stirring out of

      their Lodgeing of a long time after the Sd Clifford rose upon

      the Munday Morning before menconed, and that they did not

      know nor have not heard of any that could tell what was

      become of him after till he was found Soc drowned as aforesd

      All which herein before expressed or the Same in effect they

      these Deponts and every of them in Manner as is herein before

      Set forth doe Averr upon their Oaths to be true and further

      Say not

         J urat 19 March 1650 coram me—Thomas Hatton

                At A Court held the 22th day of April   p. 297

                1652 for the County of St Maries

                 rsent  Mr Robert Brooke Esq

                 p      Lieutent Richard Banks

      Thomas Munns plt      The Complaynt Sueth for Seven hundred

      Nicholas Cuszeen Deft    twenty and two pounds of Tobacco upon a

      Bill bearing diate the 25th ffebruary 1649, The Defdt Answers

      that the plt made an Attorney to receive the Said Tobacco,

      which Said Attorney hath given a receipt on the back Side of

      the Bill for three hundred and three pounds of Tobacco It is

      Ordered that the Defdt forthwith pay unto the plt the remainder

      of the Sd bill it being four hundred and nineteeen pounds of

      Tobacco and Cask and the bill to be delivered up to be Can-

      celled.

      Win Marshall plt The Complt Sueth for a debt the Deft oweth

      Wm Edis Defdt hun of eighty pounds of Tobacco, the Deft An-

      swers that he appointed the Sd plt payment, by Mr Richard