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        wch the said deft at the request of his Lopps Attorney maketh Liber A.

        oath That bee doth not knowe that the Heifer in the said Order

        menconed came of the said Mrs Eures stock or that she hath

        any right or title therevnto but hath heard and verily beleiveth

        it came of Thomas Sturmans stock

               J urat 170 die ffebr 1649 coram me

                           Willm Stone

          Whereas by order of the first of June last it was ordered that

        Willm Hardwich should pemptorily prove his right and title to

        a Heifer then in question betweene Mrs Margarett Brent &

        Anthony Rawlins or in default thereof the Court would

        adiudg the same to bee Mrs Eures The said Willm Hardwich

        maketh oath That bee never sold any beast to wch (soe farr as

        hee knoweth) MrS Eures had any right or title or was of her

        stock, saving one beast supposed to bee Mrs Evres sould by

        him to Anthony Rawlins, wch Governor Calvert demanded of

        the said Anthony and compelled him this depont to repay the

        Tobacco to the said Anthony wch hee the said Anthony had

        formerly paid to this depont for the said Beast And this depont

        farther deposeth that the other Heifer wch this depont sould the

        said Anthony and wch hee conceiveth to bee the said Heifer in

        question, hee this depont had of Thomas Sturman his ffather

        in lawe wch bee verily beleiveth came of his said ffather in

        lawes stock and not of the said Mrs Eures soe farr as this depont

        knowes

              J urat 18 die ffebruary 1649 coram me

                           Willm Stone

          11o ffebr intr June 20th 1649 Be it knowne vnto all men p. 325

        by these prsents that I Phillipp Land of the Province of Mary-

        land gent doe hereby make over and deliver vnto Willm Bretton

        of the Province aforesaid gent All lands goods debts already

        made or what shalbe hereafter made from the day of the date

        hereof vntill the tenth of June next in the yeare 1650, as also

        all ffees due any wayes to mee by my Office of Shereiffalty as

        also all my Neate Cattell & Hoggs to the sole vse of him the

        said Willm Bretton his heires or Assignes. Provided that if the

        said Wifim Bretton shall not bee any wayes dampnified by

        standing ingaged for the said Phillipp Land in the some of

        50000 l Tob. as appeares vppon Record, That then the said

        Wifim Bretton shall vppon the 25th of March next repossesse

        the said Phillipp Land of all his knowne Estate already made

        over and delivered But if contrary, this Obligacon & deede is

        to remaine in full force & Vertue

  Teste Roland Maes his marke            Phillip Land