Court and Testamentary Business, 1650 53.269
      
      
      
       and then till the next Court after Such his arrivall, And that Liber B.
       his the Said Capt Mitchells Attorney give Sufficient Security
       in the Value of 2500 ll Tob. & Caske to be Answerable to the
       Order of Court upon the hearing, And in default of Such p. 451
       Security to be given and Entred upon Record, by the first day
       of the next month an Attachment is to issue out against Capt
       Mitchells Estate to the Value of 2500 l Tob: and Caske to be
       answerable upon the hearing as aforesaid (if the Compit mr
       Brooks Shall desire the Same) And both parties may in the
       meane time provide theire proofes for the better Clearing of
       both Causes and the hearing to be then peremptorily
      
       Worthy Sir/
        I was Importuned formerly to trouble you in this kind to
       testify my knowledge concerning the Bargaine betweene Capt
       Mitchell and mrs Ann Boulton nowe the wife of one ffrancis
       Brookes in yor Countrey, And I am desired further to trouble
       you in the Same Busieness I Declared before that her wages
       was by Agreernt to be twenty pounds p Ann, and her bar-
       gaine was that She Should Stay with Capt Mitchell noe longer
       then She pleased, and he promised to Send her againe to Eng-
       land at his own Charge, if She liked not to Stay with him, and
       her wages was to be paid either here or in your Countrey as
       She pleased, and it was to be at her Choice whether it Should
       be paid in money or in Goods. Sir I am Sorry that there is
       an occasion of this trouble, I wish you all peace amongst your
       Selves and Soe much Mutuall Justice that each might doe
       right to other without Compulsion, which blessing together
       with all others, is constantly prayed for in yor behalf.
                                  worthy Sir yor humble
       Sir I Sneake this of my own knowledge)
                                   Servant John Wildman
being a Wittness to the Bargaine  j
                    London ffebr 14th 1652
       Indorsed. To Capt Stone Deputy Governor of Maryland
                         prsent These
      
       Ann Beach vid. plt- The plt Sues for two Barrells of Corne
       ffrancis Vanenden deft f remaining due upon a Bill of Eight Barrells
       payable by the defendt to the pltes late husband in October
       1650 now produced. The Sheriff on the defendants behalf
       aledging the defendants Sickness desired respite for his appear- p. 452
       ance but with all attested that the defendt confessed the debt,
       and desired it might be Sent for, But the Come being by the
               bill payable at the Governours house And the
       Bill cancelled Governour undertakeing on the defendants behalf
       to Satisfie mr Hatton who was willing to Spare the plt Two
       barrells of Corne at his house upon that Accompt, It is ordered