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       Shall for the present have his corne and one Shirt and as Liber B.

       touching the rest of his Clothes and other things claimed p at

       p Petition It is ordered that the further hearing, as touching

       them be respited till the next Court where the defendt may by

       himself or Attorney make what further defence he Cann if he

       think fitt and then the Court will proceed to give the plantiffe

       releife if there be Cause.

                  ‘[he Deposition of mr Thomas Carpenter aged

                  47 yeares or thereabouts Sworne and Examined

                  in open Court. this 24th March 1652.

       Sayth.

        That being present at St Inegos house about the Eighteenth

       of october last John Carrington did demand of Mr Lawrence

       Starkey his freedom to which mr Starkey answer'd that he was

       not free untill Christmas then next or thereabouts to the best

       of his knowledge, further Saying that if he did not make it

       appeare before Christmas aforesaid that he the Said Carring-

       ton was not free until1 Christmas aforesaid, that then the

       Said mr Starkey would Give the Said Carrington one hundred

       & forty pounds of Tobacco or to that Efect, And further

       Sayth not

                                        Jurat

                  To the Honourable the Governr & Councell of

                  the Province of Maryland, the Humble Petition

                  of John Carrington planter.

       Humbly Sheweth                            p. 435

        That your Petitioner being Newly free hath Severall times

       demanded his corne and Clothes and an axe and a hoe from

       mr Lawrence Starkey his last Master as alsoe one hundred and

       forty pounds of Tobacco and Caske for his Service from the

       tenth day of October Last past untill Christmas last, being due

       to your Petitioner by contract made with the Said mr Starkey,

       that although your Petitioners demands be Justly due by the

       Custome of the Countrey and contract as aforesaid Yet the

       Said Starkey doth absolutely refuse to make yor petitioner

       Satisfaction by meanes whereof your Petitioner is disabled in

       putting himself in a way for the next years Crop to his very

       Great Damage and hath been necessitated to Commence his

       Suit for recovery thereof, and in the interim to remaine in an

       unsetled Condition to his Great Charge, yor Petr therefore

       humbly prays that he may have a Judgment against the Said

       mr Starkey for his three barrells of Corne and his clotheing,

       axe, and hoe and the hundred and forty pounds of Tobacco and

       Caske due for his Service as abovesd together with Court