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        biding him go and provide for himself, many other passages Liber B.

        there were between them which this Deponent doth not now

        remember

                          J urat Coram me Thomas Hatton

         William Smith taxing Capt Price in open Court, That aboard

        mr Husbands Ship he Said that the Suit depending betwixt

        Capt Mitchell and the Said Smith Should never have an End,

        The Said Wm Smith now acknowledgeth that he hath done

        Capt Price wrong and Craveth his pardon,

               To the Honble the Governor & Councell for the

               Province of Maryland.

               The Humble Complaint of Thomas Cornwallis Esq

               against Thomas Sturman & John Stunman Coopers

               & William Hardwich Taylor.

        Sheweth.

         That Whereas it is well knowne that the Complt was one of

        the Chiefe and first Adventurers for the planting of this Prov-

        ince, and therein besides the danger and hazard of his Life and

        health, Exhausted a Great part of his Estate not only in the

        first Expedition, but alsoe in yearly Supplyes of Servants and

        Goods for the Support of himself and this then Infant Collony

        by which and Gods Blessing upon his Endeavours, he had

        acquired a Settled a Comfortable Subsistance haveing a Com-

        petent Dwelling house, furnished with plate Linnen hangings

        beding, brass, pewter and all manner of Houshold Stuff worth

        at the least a thousand pounds, about twenty Servants, at least

        a hundred Neat Cattell a Great Stock of Swine and Goats

        Some Sheep and horses, a new pinnace about twenty tunn

        well rigged and fitted besides a New Shallop and other Small

        boates, with divers debts for Goods Sold to the quantity of

        neare A Hundred thousand weight of Tobacco, all which at

        his going for England in or about Aprill 1644 he left and

        deposited in the Care and Custody of his Attorney Cuthbert

        ffenwick Gent, who in or about ffebruary following comeing

        from the Ship of Richard Ingle Marriner was as Soon as he p. 433

        Came ashore, Treacherously and illegally Surprized by the

        Said John Sturman and others, and Carryed prisoner aboard

        the Said Ingles Ship, and there detained and Compelled to

        deliver the Complts house, and the rest of the premisses into

        the possession of Divers ill disposed persons whereof the Said

        Tho: and John Sturman and Wm Hardwich were three of the

        Chiefe, who being Soc unlawfully possest of the Said house,

        and the premisses plundered and Carryed away all things in

        It, pulled downe and burnt the pales about it, killed and