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         Liber B.   Security of her forthcoming to be answerable to his clayme of

               Service from her, he refusing to release her, It is also Ordered

               that the Deft Shall Satisfie and pay all ffees & Charges of

               Imprisonment hereby by her Incurred.

            p. 333 Upon the Mocon of Coll William Cleyborne and Upon

               reading of an Order of Court of the 22th of Aprill last made

               between his Lordps Attorney General plt and Mrs Mary Brent

               Defdt It is Ordered as formerly that the hearing of the Matter

               in question be respited till the next Assembly, that Collo Clay-

               borne may by himself or his Attorney then make his Clayme

               to the Beefe in question if he think fitt.

                The Court riseing the Governor appointed the next Provinll

               and General Court for this County of St Maries to be held the

               twentieth day of November next cnsueing.

                At a Court held at St Maries the 14th of July 1652 upon a

               speciall warrant

                       (The Governor    Mr Thomas Hatton &

                               prsent

                        Coll ffran Yardley Mr Job Chandler

               Lawrence Starky Esq. by Mr     John Carrington and Nicholas

               Thomas Matthews his attorney plt   Whight this day appearing upon

               John Carrington & Richd Whight defts an arrest according to a Speciall

           p. 334   warrant for that purpose and Mr Thomas Matthews the pits

               Attorney on the pits behalf clayming them as Servants, and

               chargeing them with much neglect in those imploymts wherwth

               they had been intrusted, The Defdts alleadged they had been

               discharged of their Service by Articles of Agreement heretofore

               made between Thomas Copley Esq deceased and them dated

               the 23th of December last whereby in Consideracon of their

               ffreedom they were to make a Cropp, and to pay unto the Sd

               Mr Copley his Successors or assignes Certain quantities of

               Tob: at the times therein limitted And that they had pitched a

               Cropp accordingly, but that by reason of much rain the plants

               had been drowned, and that there had been noe neglect on

               their parts, But the Defdts expressing themselves unable or

               unwilling to give Security for performance of the Covenants

               on their part, And upon perusal of the sd Articles of Agree-

               ment, It appearing that the Sd Mr Copley had not absolutely

               thereby freed the Sd Carrington and Whight, but upon Con-

               dicon of their performance of the Covenants on their parts

               therein expressed, and the Court being of Opinion, that a bar-

               gain of that nature, betwixt the Master and his apprentice Ser-

               vants was of noe Validity in Law, Doth therefore for a final

               end of the matter in question think fitt, And it is accordingly

               Ordered that the Said Articles of Agreement or Covenants be

               from henceforth voyd and Null, Afld that the Said Defdts Car-