424 Court and Testamentary Business, 1655.

         Liber B. It is ordered That Robt Taylor being Convicted of Subscribing

          No. to a Petition against the present Government Shall pay one

             Thousand pound of Tobacco and Caske to the Lord Protector

             and abide in in the Sheriffes Custody untill he Shall give

             Security for the payment thereof.

               Capt Peter Johnson hath appeared in Court and undertaken

             as Security for mr James Berry to pay two Thousand pounds

             of Tobacco to the publick

               Peter Godson being Convicted of Stealing a bodkin from

             the wife of John Hambleton and Concealing the Same Shall

             according to the Act of Assembly ShalJ restore four fould in

             Silver which is four Shillings and Six pence to the defendt with

             the Charges of Court being four hundred and Sixe pounds of

             Tobacco

               William Stockden Claimes of the Estate of John Crabtree

             deceased the Sume of fifty one pounds of Tob. which he hath

             proved in Court.

               It is ordered that Capt Peter Johnson Shall be Satisfied out

          P 155 of the Estate of Capt William Stone for all Such Charges &

             Damages as he Shall make appeare to be due to him upon a

             false Imprisonmt and in the mean time an Attachment to he

             awarded upon the Goods & Chattells of the Said Capt Stone

             to the Value of four thousand pounds of Tobacco to be liable

             to Satisfie the Said debts if it be So determined by the Court

               William Bramhall having been formerly Convicted of Sub-

             scribing to a Rebellious Petition, and now againe hath Sub-

             scribed another to that effect, It is ordered that the Sd Bramhall

             Shall be at the Charge of building a pair of Stocks and See it

             finished within one Month, And that the Sheriffe Shall Cause

             this order to be performed

               John Wade and William Evans acknowledge themselves

             indebted the Sume of three thousand three hundred pounds of

             lob: and Caske to be paid to this present Court, or to whom

             they Shall appoint to receive for the publicke use, which Tob:

             is to be paid at the plantation either of the Said John Wade or

             William Evans upon Lawfull demand for the which payment

             they bind themselves in the presence of the Court in the pen-

             alty of Sixe thousand pounds of Tobacco to be paid as aforesaid

                                             John Wade

                                             William Evans