414 Court and Testamentary Business, 1655.

          Liber B. John Ashcombe Confest in Court he was in Drink Shall

          No. 3. pay 00 l of Tobacco according to the Act of Assembly John

               Ashcombe fined 2000 l of Tob towards the publick damage

               occasioned by Capt Stone and his Complices, And the Said

               Ashcombe by Petition Subscribed, Some way Submitted to,

               through feare of Mischiefe threatned by them.

                 The Petitioners of Putuxent are discharged from the Con-

               tents, and Damage thereof by an Act of favour past unto them

               by this Court upon the acknowledgment of their offence and

               free Submission to the present Governmt

                 Richard Collet being Convicted of a Scandalous offence

               against the Governmt by his Subscribing of a Petition of Dan-

               gerous Contents and Consequence Shall be banished from this

               Province and give Security for his Good abearance to the

               present Governmt untill he Shall give Notice unto mr Lawrence

               Ward in Virginia part of whose Estate the Said Collett doth

               Manage in Putuxent River to appoint another in his room and

         P.    Shall have Six weeks time for that dispatch and pay 1000 l of

               Tob: to the Publick if his Security be taken as Sufficient for his

               good abearance aforesaid he may Stay till the 25th of December

                 Commission of Administracon Granted to Alice Griffin

               wife of Samuell Griffin deceased, Robert Taylor John Knapp

               appointed to prize the Estate.

                 Whereas it appears by Capt Cornwallies his Lre to mr John

               Wade that the Sd Capt Cornwallies did Ship Certaine Goods

               aboard the Goulden ffortune with the pduce of Tob Sent by

               Cap' Cornwallies to be Sold for the Said Wade to the Value

               of 22 l 10S for the use of the Said John Wade to be delivered

               in Maryland a Note of which Goods hath been Exhibited to

               this Court, It is ordered that mr Richard Hodskeyes agent for

               the Sd Capt Cornwallies Shall deliver the Said Goods to the

               Said Wade or his Assignes according to the Scedule of Par-

               ticulars Menconed

                 Lieutent Richard Banks and Thomas Tunnell being found

               in Armes against the present Government & pleading that

               they were Misled by the protestation of Capt Stone who Said

               he had power from the Lord Protector and also did Surrender

               a ffort upon the first Summons are discharged from further

               trouble in the action upon their Submission and Good for-

               bearance to the present Government