Court and Testamentary Business, 1649-50.33

       head his heires Execrs or Assignes the just some of 500' of Liber A.

       good merchantable Tob: and Caske And for the true perform-

       ance hereof I doe binde over all my personall estate and Cropp

       to bee paid at or vppon the tenth day of October next ensueing

       the date hereof As witnes my hand the fift of ffebruary 1649

                               The marke of Jeffery Gant

       Witnes the marke of Jo: Tragare

       Item for I Hoe                            30

       Item 2 shutes of powder & shott to Gant

       Item more 1 l of powder

       Item 4 l of shott

       Item one paire of Shoes                   20

       Item discompted with Martin Kirke for you1 20

       Item discompted with H. Potter for       100

       Witnes Martha Conoway   The marke of Jeifry Gant

       At a Court held at St) Present The Governor Robert Brookes Esqr

   Maries the 2d day of     Mr Thomas Hatton

       September 1650

         fforasmuch as it is credibly reported that Capt Giles Brent

       hath heretofore done or attempted to doe divers things priu-

       diciall to the right hoble the Lo: Propry of this Province and his

       vndoubted right and title therevnto and contrary to the trust

       reposed in him by his said Lopp It is therefore ordered that

       Georg Manners bee his Lopps Attorney to make diligent

       Inquisicon touching his the said Capt Brent's comportmt

       towards his Lopp and his aforesaid right and title, and to somon

       what witnesses hee shall thinke fitt to bee examined touching

       the prmisses on his Lopps behaulf, and in the Provinciall Court

       there to psecute against him the said Capt Brent for any

       offence or misdemeanor in Words Accons or Attempts to the

       priudice of his said Lopp in his undoubted right and title to this

       Province and to vse all lawful1 meanes for the discovery of the

       same

         At a Court held at St) Present The Governor. Tho: Greene Esqr

         Maries the tenth day   Capt John Price. W Secretary

         of October 1650

       John Sturman pite    The Compltes suite is to bee releived

       Tho: Copley Esqr deft    against the deft for a Heifer of 2 yeare old

       wch the deft by a Note vnder his hand dated 26o August 1646

       pmised to deliver to Robert Sedgrave whensoever bee should

       bring him certaine Bookes in the said note menconed Wch

       bookes had beene brought and delivered accordingly And

       Sedgrave had assigned the said Heifer to the plte by an

       Assignemt vnder his hand of the 10th of Octob 1648. Wch