372 Court and Testamentary Business, 1654.

      Liber B.        The Deposition of Cuthbt ffenwick Gent aged

                      40 years or thereabouts Sworn & Examined, Saith

                That he very well knoweth Thomas Harrison who arrived

              in Maryland with Thomas Cornwallis Esq in or about December

              1641 as Servant to the Said Tho: Cornwallis being as this

              Depont hath often heard bought by the Said Tho: Cornwallies

              of Richard Ingle Marriner master of the Ship wherein both the

              Said parties Came out of England, being by profession a

              Cooper, but at his arrivall in Maryland did not appeare a

              Workman for that Trade and was thereupon hired out by the

              Said Thomas Cornwallis to Randoll Revell Cooper for one

              Year, and then returned to the Service of the Said Tho: Corn-

              wallis where he remained at the Departure of the Said Tho:

              Cornwallis againe for England, and was with the rest of the

             Servants left by the Said Tho: Cornwallis in the Charge and

              Custody of this Depont, and was imployed by him until1 the

              arrivall of the foresaid Richard Ingle in Maryland in or about

              ffebruary 1644 at which time the Said Harrison departed from

              the house of the Said Tho: Cornwallis, and the Service of his

              Said Master, and tooke up Armes in the Assistance of the Said

              Ingle and his Associates for for the plundering of the Province

              of Maryland without the Leave or approbation of this Deponent

              being then the Attorney of the Said Thomas Cornwallis, whose

              house was then also plundered, And the Said Harrison being

              one of the plunderers, where the Indenture of the Said Har-

              rison was taken away, being to the best of this Deponents

              remembrance and as he Verily believeth for five years, after

              which time the Said Harrison Never returned to this Depont

              nor to his Service, nor was Ever freed or discharged by this

              Depont nor Seen by this Depont before he departed this Prov-

              ince that he Can remember but when he Came in Armes to

              Assist the Associates of the Said Ingle for the plundering of

              his Sd Masters house And that during the time of the Said

              plundering he had not in the house of the Said Tho: Corn-

              wallis any of his Servants Except Negros and one Richard

              Harvy a Taylor all the rest being either prisoners with Ingle,

              fled to the Governour or in Armes as Associates to the Said

              Ingle, and that therefore the Deposition of one George Mere-

              dith is false and untrue All this or the Same in Effect this Depo-

              nent averreth to be true And further Saith Not.

                Jurat 18 April 1654. Coram Nob:  William Stone

                                              Tho: Hatton

                   The Deposition of Cuthbt ffenwick Gent aged 40 years

                   or thereabouts Sworne and Examined Saith

                That being the Attorney of Tho: Cornwallis Esq when he

              went for England in or about the year 1643. he very well