318Court and Testamentary Business, 1653.

          Liber B. Henry Bishop maketh Oath that in or about Christmas last

          P 515 he was present when Mary the wife of Wifim Edwyn received

               of William Stills a hogshead of Tobacco which was formerly

               this Deponents Tobacco and weighed when this Depo paid the

               Same to Walter Pakes about two or three days before three

               hundred thirty five pounds Neat as this Depo taketh it who

               Saw the Same weighed, and the Said Mary Edwyn when She

               Soc received the Same Sett or Caused her mark to be Sett

               upon the Said Hogshead as also upon another hogshead of

               Tobacco which She at the Same time and place Received of

           p. 516   WaIter Pakes, which wanted about Thirty pounds of Tobacco

               of being full, and which this Depont undertooke to fill the Said

               latter hogshead of Tobacco being formerly likewise this Depo-

               nents. And this depont further Sayth that about a fortnight

               after the Said Mary Edwyn Soe received the Said two hogs-

               heads of Tobacco as aforesaid, Daniell Clocker comeing to this

               Deponents house desired him this Depont to Shew unto him the

               ‘fobacco which was Goodwife Edwyne's Saying if he liked it

               he was to have it or to that Effect, whereupon this depont went

               with the Said Clocker to the Tobacco house where both the

               Said hogsheads lay, and he the Said Clocker then and there

               opened the Said hogshead that was full and received the To-

               bacco therein and afterwards Nailed up the Same and Marked

               it, And then asked this depont whether the other hogshead of

               Tobacco were as good as that, And this Depont Answered that

               it was as Good as the other for ought he knew, whereupon

               the Said Clocker desired this deponent in case the hogshead

               which was not full were as Good as the other to fill the Same,

               And this Depont asking him whether he this Dept Should also

               mark the Said other hogshead when it was filled with his the

               Said Clockers mark he answered yes And this Deponent like-

               wise asking him whether he would have this Depont to Nayle

               it up for him, he Said it was noe Matter for Nayling of it, for

               that he that fetched it away might Nayle it, And this Deponent

               further Sayth that he did afterwards fill up the Said hogshead

               wth Tobacco and marked the Same with a (D & C) according

               to the Said Clocker's direction and that the Same hogshead

               when he Soc filled it up; was as he Verily believeth and for

               ought he knoweth to the Contrary a Good & Merchantable

               hogshead of Tobacco. All which herein before Contained or

               the Same in Effect, this Deponent averreth upon his Oath to

               be true, and further Sayth not

                           Jurat 6 dec: 1653 Coram me Tho: Hatton

          p.   This Present Wittnesseth that I Willm Eltonhead Esq have

               Sold and Delivered to Henry Potter one black Cow aged Six

               yeares or thereabouts with all her Increase and doe Warrant