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        Liber B.   day, onely if in Case there does appeare under the Said mr

              Harris his hand any thing by Bond or ingagemt Upon Record

              then the Said mr Harris Shall be oblidged to render Satisfac-

              tion to the full as Wittness my the 30th March 1654

                                            Charles ffreeman

              Test John Billingsley John Read

                John Lone

                Received by me Ben Cowell the 5th of May 1652 in the

              behalf of Miles Cooke the Assignee of Capt Thurstone of John

              Pills four hundred Ninety and five pounds of Tobacco and

              Caske in part of payment of a Debt of nine hundred eighty

              and two pounds of Tobacco due by Bill from mr Thomas

              Copley to the aforesaid Capt Thurston I say Received

                                                Ben Cowell

                William Scott, Mariner, maketh oath that about two yeares

              since when Capt Richard Husbands was here in this Province

              of Maryland with the ship whereof he was then master, this

              Depont being then Boatswain of the same ship, Mr Thomas

           Hatton Secretary of this Province demanding a Case of Strong

              Waters, which it Seems was Sent him in the Said Ship by

              Some freind in London, the Said Capt Husbands Caused a

              Case to be brought upon the Quarter Deck, which being open

              and unbound appeared to have been broken open, all the

              bottles therein Except one or two being Crackt and broken

              with holes in the Sides and the Strong water either Drunk out

              or Spilt all Saving Some Small quantity in two of the bottles,

              the Same appearing in all Likelyhood to be done by the abuse

              or Miscarriage of Some belonging to the Said Ship, and that

              the Said mr Hatton then demanded Satisfaction of the Said

              Husbands touching the Said Case, which was not then or Since

              given him by the Said Capt Husbands or any other So far as

              this Depont knows, And this Depont further Saith that the Said

              Capt Husbands after his arrivall in England did Stop or

              detaine in his hands the pay or wages of the Steward of the

              Said Ship for that Voyage to make Good his Miscarriages of

              that kind as this Depont understood The Said Capt Husbands

              upon the Said mr Hattons demand of Satisfaction aforesaid,

              telling him that before he could make him any Satisfaction

              therein he must Call his Steward to Accompt concerning the

              Same or to that effect. All which before herein Expressed or

              the Same in Effect this Depont upon his Oath averreth to be

              true and further Saith not.

                       Jurat 3 ffebr 1653. Coram Me William Stone