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       acknowledgeth himself to owe & stand indebted vnto Thomas Liber A.

       Mathewes of St Inegoes in the Province aforesaid gent in the

       full some of two hundred and twenty pounds of Tob: & Caske

       or thereabouts And if that the Specialty already signed by mee

       the said Bartholomewe Phillipps vnto the said Thomas Mathewes

       amounteth to more then is here expressed I doe hereby

       acknowledg it to bee a iust debt And further a Judgmt to bee

       entred according to that Specialty As witnes my hand.

       Recogn coram me Willm Bretton Sign Barth: Phillipps

              The deposicon of James Langworth aged 20 yeares or

       somons thereabouts & John Greenehold aged 25 yeares & vp-

       wards taken this 19th of June 1650

         James Langworth deposed saith that about 2 yeares agoe

       hee did help John Halfhead to alter a Marke of a yearling

       reddish Cowe calf marked at that prsent (before it was altered

       by this depont with both cares cropt. But the right Eare (as

       hee thinketh) was not soe perfect a Cropp being cutt a little

       hollowe, but it could not bee intended like a swallowe

       Taile And that hee veryly beleiveth that it was soe cutt hol-

       lowe in doubling the Eare when it was cropt Wch said Calf bee

       the said John Halfhead received of Mrs Margarett Brent for

       the vse of WiPrm Assiter And further hee deposeth not

                                       J a: Langworth

         John Greenehold deposeth idem ad Verbum quod James

       Langworth vt supa    The marke of Jo. Greenehold

       J urat cora me Willm Brctton

         These prsents witnesseth that I Wifim Tompsop of the p. 350

       Newtowne Hundred in the Province of Maryland for and in

       consideracon of a valuable somme by mee in hand received

       haue bargained & sould vnto Phillipp Land or his Assignes

       one Redd Cowe about the age of 4 yeares or thereabouts being

       marked with a Cropp on the right Eare and slitt in the same

       Eare, the left Eare having onely a hole cut in it, being my owne

       pp Marke. Wch Cowe with her future Increase I doe hereby

       alienate bargaine and sell vnto the said Phillipp Land his

       heires or Assignes for ever as theire owne pp goods And

       farther I doe hereby binde my self my heires or Assignes to

       saue and keepe harmeles the said Phillipp Land his heires or

       Assignes from any pson or persons that shall lay any iust

       clayme to the said Cowe or her future Increase In witnes

       whereof I haue herevnto sett my hand this 20th of december

       ¶648

                             The marke of Wm Tompson

       Signed & dd in the prsence of vs

              Wm Bretton