Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.25

        Warrt supinde 27o Junij and a subpa to Paul Simpson to bee Liber A.

       examined as a Witnes in this Cause on the pltes behaulf r

       imediate

       John dandy plte ) Mr William Eltonhead gent maketh oath

       Mr Rich: Husbands

       Marriner deft j that about the later end of ffebruary last

       being aboard Mr Richard Husbands Shippe then riding in St

       Georges River bee heard the said Mr Husbands say hee would

       punish John dandy who was then aboard the said Shipp, and

       then called for some of his seamen and commanded them to

       binde the said dandy And afterwards the said dandy sending

       for this depont bee therevppon went to him in the Gunroome

       where hee found him the said dandy bound having his Armes

       fast pinioned behind him and tied to his neck with a Cord in a

       rigorous fashion And the said dandy then tould this depont

       the said Husbands had soe bound him And therevppon the

       seamen telling this depont the said Husbands theire Maister

       had bound him and they durst not vnloose him hee this depont

       then vnloosed the said dandy And further deposeth not

                      J urat 25o Junu coram me Tho: Hatton

                          The matter in question betwixt the

       Georg Manners pite Marks .    .

       Pheypo Nichăs Keetinge said parties consisting of Accompt

       defts And Nichăs Keeting plte wch being imperfect and not fitt for

       and Georg Manners deft   J  . —

                        the determinacon of the Court at

       prsent. It is by consent of all parties ordered That all matters

       in difference betwixt them bee referred to the hearing exam-

       inacon & determinacon of Mr Cuthbert ffenwick Mr Willm

       Eltonhead and Mr Richard Willan who are hereby authourised

       to call the said parties and theire witnesses before them at any

       time before the next Court as they shall thinke fitt, and to

       examine them or any of them vppon oath for the better stating

       of the Accompts and settling of all differences, And by all

       good meanes to determine all the said differences if they can or

       else to certify theire proceedings together with theire opinions

       therein And the Court will therevppon make such further order

       therein as shalbe fitt And the said parties and every of them

       doe hereby obleige themselues severally in the some of Tenne

       thousand pounds of Tob: & Caske to stand to such end &

       determinacon therein as the said Referrees shall happen to

       make, to bee paid by the discenting party or parties to the

       other party or parties that shall not discent from the said

       determinacon And the said Nichas Keeting doth hereby

       obleige himself on the behaulf of the said Marks Pheypo for

       whom bee is Attorney that bee shall comply in all things with

       this prsent Order

                                     Nicholas Keeting

                            The marke of Georg Manners