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       Liber A.  Interrogatories to bee administed to witnesses to bee

                 examined on the part & behaulf of Mr ffrancis Brookes

                 Complte agt Mrs Margaret Brent Attorney of Capt Giles

                 Brent deft

                i Imprimis whether or noe were you (amongst others) sent

              or irnployed by Capt Giles Brent about. 5 yeares since when

              Governor Calvert came last out of England to hire or borrowe

              the said Complte Mr ffrancis Brookes his Shallopp at Kent for

              transportacon of him the said Capt Brent to St Maries and

              pvision for the Voyage or what doe you remember concrning

              the same?

                2 Item vppon what termes did the said Compite lend or

              hire his said Boate to the said Capt Brent and pvisions for the

              Voyage. Was it not vppon the said Capt Brents pmise to

              satisfy him for the same, and what satisfaccon did the said

              Capt Brent pmise to give or allowe for the said Boate and the

              Compltes paines in goeing along therewith and such pvisions

              as hee had made for the voyage, and what were the said

              Provisions, did not the said Complte kill a Hogg for that

              purpose And what doe you conceive in conscience the hire of

              the said Shallopp for that Voyage and the compltes paines and

              time spent and the said Provisions were Worth.

                3 Item what other matter or thing canne you say wch may bee

              for the pltes behoofe in this Cause declare the truth vppon yor

              oath in every particular. Subpa Shercliff r 250 Junii

                 The deposicon of John Sheirtcliffe taken the 19th of June

                 1650 vppon the Interr aboue Written.

                To the first this depont saith that about 5 yeares agoe (as hee

              remembreth) Capt Giles Brent came downe to St Maries from

              the Isle of Kent together with divers other Passengers in a

           p. 349 Shallopp belonging to Mr ffrancis Brook But whether or noe

              hee this depont way imployed & sent to bring the said Shallopp

              from Mr Brookes House by the said Capt Brent or whether hee

              went by reason of getting soe ffitt & convenient passage downe

              in her hee cannot depose Neither can hee depose any thing

              concerning the Provisions put into the said Shallopp, Onely bee

              supposeth that the said Mr Brookes did put aboard some Pro-

              visions But what they were bee cannot iustly remember nor

              that any Agreemt was made therefore or concerning them

              either by Capt Brent or any other whatsoever. To the rest hee

              knoweth nothing

                                   The marke of Jo: Sheirtcliffe

              J urat & exaiat coram me Wm Bretton

                June 16th 1650. This day came Bartholomewe Phillipps of

              Newtowne hundred in the Province of Maryland plantr and