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Liber B. the Servant Executed did belong to the Children of mr Corn- P. 411 mins deceased and not to him, It is Ordered that the Examina- tion and hearing of the Matter be referred to the Court at Kent where the hard Conscience and Extreame dealing of the Said Weeks may be regulated in point of Equity (if there be cause) as the Court there Shall think fitt, And the Said Con- veyance (if any be) to be then and there produced that Such order may be taken thereupon by that Court on the behalf of the Said Commins Children as Shall be conceived to Stand with Justice and Equity.
The Deposition of Henry Potter aged 32 years or there- abouts being Summoned to Testify on the behalf of Marks Pheypo agt Edward Hall and being Sworne and Exam- ined this 8” of ffebr 1652 Sayth That in Winter last was two yeares Edward Hall and Martin Kirke and this depont went together in the woods to looke for Sowes that had pigs, and finding of them, there were two Sowes that were Somthing wild, which Edward Hall laid Claime to, and to the best of this Deponent's knowledge they were both black Sowes, And the Said Edward Hall desired this deponent to ketch them for him with this Deponts Dog, and this Depont did Ketch one with his dog, and the Said Edward Hall laid hold of the Sowe and killed her, and desired this Depont for to put the Dog forth againe to ketch the other which this Depont did, and Edward Hall tyed her by the leg to a Tree with the help of the rest then present, And further this deponent Sayth that Edward Hall Changed the Sowe he had kilid with Martin Kirke for another Sowe of Martines which used to be at Edward Hall's House, But for the Marks of the two Sowes So ketched with the Dog as aforesaid, this deponent did take noe Notice thereof to the best of his remem- brance neither can he tell what Markes they had And further Sayth not Jurat die & Anno Sup dict Coram me Tho: Hatton
Richard Bennett his marke for Cattell and Hogs p. 412 23 Martij Viz. The right Eare Cropt and a Slitt in the Crop and
the left Eare Swallow Tayled.
I under written doe ingage my Self to mr Joseph Manning to beare him harmless from a Bill of Twenty three hundred pounds of Tobacco which he Stood ingaged to mr William and Thomas Daines as Administrators to mr Walter Coopar, thir- teen hundred and fifty pounds of which ingagement being due to Will. Haines and the Remainder of the above menconed Bill
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