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      is not now resident in the Province nor intendeth (as is Sup- Liber B.

      posed) to return hither. Wherefore yor Petitioner humbly

      Craveth that he may be Ordered to recover his Clothes Come

      &c according to his Condition of Covenant out of his Said

      Master's Estate in this Province which is under Attachment for

      that purpose. And he Shall ever pray &c.

      mr Robert Clarke      The Complt Suit being to be relieved

      William Boreman deft     touching one John Abbott his Servant whom

      he lent to the defendt about two years Since to goe along with

      him in his boat to Virginia upon Condition to restore him

      againe at his returne thence but hath ever Since refused either

      to return the Servant or to give the plantiffe Satisfaction for

      his time of Service, To which the defendt Denyes that he ever

      accepted of the Servant upon these termes, and Saith that he

      ran away from the defendt in Virga and that he could never

      find him againe, though he procured a hue and Cry after him

      there, It is thereupon Ordered by Consent of both parties that

      the now defendant do acquitt the now Coniplt of thirteen hun-

      dred and five pounds of Tobacco and Caske for which the Now

      Compit and then Defendt did yesterday acknowledge a Judg-

      ment to the Now defendant then pite in that Case, And that

      the Now Complt doe assigne over to the defendt Boreman

      the Said Servant together with his Covenant of Service &

      note of Charge and procure the Same Covenant to be attested

      as also the Said Note of Charges, And both parties are to

      beare and pay theire own Charges and Cost of Suit in this and

      the other Suit before Mentioned.

        ffrancis Posey this day in open Court acknowledgeth a

       Judgmt to Henry ffox of Nine hundred pounds of Tobacco and

      Caske

        Upon the Motion of mrs Mary Brent on the behalf of Capt

      Giles Brent her Brother Informing that mr ffrancis Brookes the

      20th of June 1651 obtained a Judgmt against her Said brother

      of 500 l of Tobacco & Caske for hire of a Boate which She

      alledgeth was Soc by him hired upon the Lord proprs Occa-

      sions and prayeth that her Said brother may be discharged

      thereof and that mr Brookes may have Satisfaction for the

      Same, and the Court Charges arising thereupon out of the

      Lord Proprs Estate, And it now appearing to the Court upon

      the Said mr Brookes his Information and other Credible rela-

      tions that the Said mrs Brents Information was true, It is

      ordered that the Said Capt Brent be discharged of that Order

      and that mr Brookes be Satisfied his Said Judgment and Court

      Charges thereupon by his Ldps Receiver out of his Ldps