34 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.

        Liber A.   Heifer having beene often demanded by the plte and those bee

              appointed to receive her was not yet delivered. To this the

              deft acknowledged his said pmise vnder his hand to Sedgrave

              and the receipt of the Bookes, And saith the Heifer was legally

              tendred as appeares by Jo: Greenewayes oath, as followeth

               John Greeneway aged about 25 yeares deposed saith That

              about Michaelmas last past Mr Tho: Copley gave him order to

              deliver one Heifer to the vse of Robt Sedgrave Wherevppon

              this depont tould Charles Rawlins then the deputed Attorney

              of Robert Sedgrave that bee should come any morning or

              evening and hee would deliver him the Heifer and to this pur-

              pose hee spake 5 or 6 severall times to him to come and

              receive it wch bee failing to doe bee tendred the Heifer to the

              vse of Robert Sedgrave in the presence of Mrs Margaret Brent

              & Mr John Rookewood and gave notice of it to Charles Raw-

              lins, and that the Heifer was afterwards knowne at St maries

              by the name of Robert Sedgraves Heifer And further bee

              saith not

              The Marke of Jo: Greeneway

                            J urat coram me Jo: Pille 22o June 1650

               And Mrs Margarett Brent prsent in Court averred the said

              tender. Wherevppon the Complte said bee went to receive

              the Heifer but she was not to bee found And soe bee deputed

              Charles Rawlinson to receive her. And by the said Rawlinsons

              oath pduced in Court bee saith that to his remembrance Mr

              Copley gave Greeneway order to deliver him a Heifer and

              that Greeneway tould him afterwards that bee had tendred one

              for Sedgraves vse. And the pite not making any materiall

              obieccon agt Greenewayes oath The Court conceiving the

              tender of the Heifer therein expressed being a black Heifer of

              Mr Copleys marke as was averred to bee a sufficient delivery

              doth dismisse the pltes suite cleerely & absolutely out of this

              Court.

              John Hatch pite The pltes suite being for the delivery vpp

              Wm Hardwich deft of a Noate vnder his hand wch bee had hereto-

              fore given vnto the deft or to Thomas Sturman for the delivery

              of a Cowe and her Increase to them or one of them they

              paying him certaine Tobaccoes wch he had paid to Tho: Greene

              Esqr for theire or one of theire debts wch Cowe the deft had

              received together with a Calf being all the Increase that lived.

              Yet refused to deliver vpp the said Note To wch the deft

              acknowledgeth bee hath the Note but that it belonged to Tho:

              Sturman who had intrusted him therewith and to whom hee