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         Known unto all men by these presents that I Robt Smith Liber B.

       doe give my Daughter Elizabeth Asbeston and her Children No. 3.

       which are at present, and Shall hereafter Issue betwixt my

       Daughter and her husband which is at present all my right 2

       and Title in this Bill Sale ifarthermore if her husband dye

       before her, The Said Cattle Shall be Divided into three parts,

       and my Daughter to have one Share and the Children two

       Shares As Wittness my hand the day and year abov written

       Testife his mark            Robert Z Smithe

          John >< Bisco Concordat Gum      his mark

           Marke Bloomfied orriginali teste me Tho: Turner Clk

         At a Court held at Putuxent the 25t0 die Iulij Anno

                Domini 1657

                Mr Richard Preston. Mr William Parratt

           Present <

        William Euens.               M Thom: Thomas

       Order agst Alexander King

         Whereas it appeareth to this Court that Man named Alex-

       ander King Came into this Province about 3 months Since

       with a woman named Mary pretending that they were man

       and wife, and under that pretence have lived and bedded

       together as man and wife as by testimony appeareth, untill

       upon Good grounds they were Suspected to be fugitives and

       thereupon were apprehended and in the Sheriffes Custode,

       but the Said King having broke prison is run away, and the

       Said Woman being Conuened before this Court upon her Ex-

       amination Confessing that She is not the wife of the Said King,

       But that She is the wife of one John Butler a Liver in York in

       Virginia and that She Came away with the Said King from

       her husband without his leave or knowledge, and hath kept

       Company with the Said King owning him to be her husband

       The Court doth therefore order that the Sd Mary Butler Shall

       receive twentie Lashes upon the bare back with a whip viz

       ten Immediatly at the Court Door and ten at the River Side

       of Potomock and So to be by the Sheriffe with this order

       passed over the River Potomock and Delivered on Virginia

       Side unto Some of his highness the Lord Protectors officers

       there tht Course may be taken for her Safe Conveyance to the

       place from whence She Came.

         Whereas two fugitive Servants, which run away from York p. 295

       in Virginia the one Servant as is Supposed to mr Nathaniell

       Bacon named Peter Key, the other Servant to mr ffran: Wheeler

       named Huntington Ayes, as the Said Ayres Confesseth being

       apprehended and brought before this Court The Court doth