Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.165

      Wm Smith is an Old aged man of 61 years, Seduced from his Liber B.

      Countrey wife and Children by the fair and false promises of

      this Mitchell delayed and put off from Court to Court by the

      Attorney of this Capt Mitchell and himself and ready to goe

      for England before any Court or relief can be had, for want of

      which relief he must in all likelyhood perish, this Court being

      a Court of Equity as well as Law doth Conceive this appear-

      ance of Capt Mitchell to be good, he voluntarily comeing of

      himself and pleading day after day in the Case desireing his

      Wittness to be Sent for one day and heard the next, And

      therefore proceeds to Sentence as followeth, That the plt ac-

      cording to the promise and ingagement of the Deft be Satis-

      fied for his charge of dyett for 1 6 months which after the rate

      of one hundred pounds of Tobacco p Month amounts to 1600

      weight of Tobacco as likewise for his Voyage into England

      and return into Bedford shire 1000 l weight of Tobacco and

      Cask together with the Cost and Charges of Suit for the which

      Said Several Sumes he is hereby granted Judgment and after

      Judgment Execucon and as touching the pits demand of Goods

      and other things now Complayned, for the Court thinks fit not p. 304

      to meddle any further therein for the present but doth respit

      the further hearing thereof till the next Court for which pur-

      pose the Deft is hereby ordered then to appear peremptorily.

                               Execucon ad satisfaciend.

        Know all men by these presents, that I, Geo: Mee doe firmly

      by these presents acquitt and discharge John Allen from all

      further Service which Should have been due by vertue of one

      Indenture by him Signed unto Mr Walter Cooper of the Island

      of Barbadoes or his assignes as also by one Other Indenture

      Signed unto Mr Edmond Hunt of the Same Island Wittness

      my hand this Nine and twentieth day of Aprill Anno Dni

      1652.                      theMarkof

                             George G M Mee

      Signed and delivered in the

      prsence of

               the Mark 1 of

               Thomas Sturman

               J no Sturman

        Know all men by these presence that I Walter Beane in the

      Province of Maryland Planter Doe by these presence bind

      my Self my heirs Extors or Admrs in the penalty of thirteen

      thousand four hundred and eight pounds of Tobacco to See

      the Estate of William Broof deceased forth comeing and to p. 305

      keep a Just and true account of the Said Estate appraised by

      John Wade Chirurgeon and John Taylor at 6704 l of Tobacco