50 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649-50.

          Liber A. intended, by meanes whereof yor daughters departure is very

              neere at hand, This hath occasioned me to request (since my

              pressing occasions pmitt not to give you a visitt) that you

              would affoard mee the happines of discoursing with you in

              London more particularly then I haue yet had opportunity to

              doe in a thinge that soe neerely concernes yor child. Sir if

              you please to come it must bee suddenly And if it bee yor

              pleasure to adventure yor self at Sea to bee an Eye witnes

              howe yor Child is disposed of I will willingly make fitt and

              competent provision for yor Journey stay and returne at pleasure

              without any charg at all to yor self, and shall thinke my self

              happy in yor society and converse And if you and Mrs Smith

              thinke fitt to bestowe any housholdstuffe on your daughter wch

              wilbe a Cornodity will there turne her to a considerable ad van-

              tage I doe ingage my self vpon myne Honor and reputacon that

              it shall passe vpon her Accompt and for her owne vse and

              benefitt In wch J will not intermedle nor prtend any Jnterest.

              Sir this with my respects is all at prsent from Sir

                                Yor affecconate ifreind W. Mitchell

              London 210 ffebr 1649

                25o dec A Caveat is this day entred on the behaulf of

              Susanna Porter Widowe the relict of Willm Porter of the Isle

              of Kent concerning her late husbands estate.

                270 dec Thomas Hamper a Judgmt to Lt Nichäs Gwither

              of 340 l of Tob: & Caske as witnes his hand.

                                       Signd

      Execuc inde eod die ad satisfaciend   Tho: X Hamper

                28 dec Willm Marshall his Marke for cattell and Hoggs

              viz: the right Eare slitt and the left slitt and the vnder part

              cropt off and two slitts in the Cropp

                28 dec Robert Allen sonne of Tho: Allen dec. his marke

              for Cattell and Hoggs Viz: both Eares slitt and the vndersides

              cropt offe

                27 dec. 27o May 1650. According to the liberty and

              direccon of an order made the last Assembly concerning the

              charge of redeeming the children of Tho: Allen deceased

              Willm Marshall this day doth vndertake at the next Cropp to

              pay the 600 l of Tob: and Caske for redempcon of Robert

              Allen the yonger of the said two Children, and hath deposited

              a Bill of 300' of Tob: and Caske payable the tenth of Novem-

              ber next to him the said Willm Marshall from Walter Water-

              ling in Mr Secretaries hands, in part of paymt And the said