362Court and Testamentary Business, 1654.

          Liber B.        The Same Court Continued

           p. 571 11 April Anno Domini 1654

                                   Present as the day before

                     The Deposition of mr John Pile taken in open Court

                     at St Maries in the Province of Maryland the 11th day

                     of April 1654 upon Oath saith

                That about nine or ten years agoe Argall Yardley of the

              County of Northton in Virginia Esq. being indebted to him

              this Depont twelve hundred pounds of Tobacco and Caske or

              thereabouts did give this deponent a bill or Note Under his

          p. 572    hand whereby he ingaged himself to pay unto Capt William

              Stone Esq Now Governour of this Province the Said twelve

              hundred pounds of Tobacco and Caske for the Use of Thomas

              Cornwallis Esq upon this Deponents Accompt, And this De-

              ponent further Saith that he Never received any Satisfaction

              otherwise touching the Said twelve hundred pounds of To-

              bacco & Caske from the Said mr Argall Yardley or any other

              then by the Bill or Note before Mentioned. And further

              Saith Not

                Jurat Ut Supra Coram Nobis: Willm Stone, Tho Hatton

                   The Deposition of mr Nicholas Gwyther aged 28 Years

                   or thereabouts taken in open Court at St Maries in the

                   Province of Maryland the 11th day of April 1654 Upon

                   oath Sayth.

                That he this Deponent was Servant to Tho: Cornwalleys

              Esq when one Thomas Harrison Came into this Province in

              the year 1641 (as this Deponent taketh it) with the Said Capt

              Cornwalleys as his servant, and lived in the house with this

              Depont one yeare or thereabouts before the arrivall of one

              Richard Ingle which was in the year 1644 or thereabouts at

              which time the Said Harrison was Sent by Cuthbt ffenwick then

              Attorney to the Said Capt Cornwalleys with one Edward

              Mathews his fellow Servant to assist one Andrew Monroe to

              bring a Pinnace (that then ridd in the Mouth of St Inegos

              Creek (as Near as Conveniently could be to the house of the

              Said Capt Cornwalleys which Said Servants (as they did report

              themselves) were Commanded aboard the Ship of the Said

              Ingle, she riding in the Mouth of the Said Creek, which Said

              Mathews was there detained prisoner, And the Said Harrison

              tooke up Armes in the assistance of the Said Ingle, and the

              Said Harrison never after returned to his Said Masters Ser-

              vice as this Deponent Ever Saw or heard, the terme of time

              of the Said Harrison's Service was unknown to this Deponent,

              but he hath heard the Said Harrison Say that the Said Capt

              Cornwalleys would abate Some of the time of his Service for