534Court and Testamentary Business, 1657.

         Liber B.   The Same Court Continued the 26 of Septembr 1657

         No. 3. Present as the day before.

              Whereas attachment was obtained by mr Wil

             Order Granted

             mr Durand  liam Durand against the Estate of Capt Iosias

             for a Boy  Fendall, And Whereas by order of order of Court,

             Servantthe first of may last, the attachmt So obtained

             Should Still lye upon a Servant Boy of the Said Fendalls.

             And the Sd William Durand having Petitioned this Court that

             the Boy Soe attached Shall remaine deposited into the hands

             of the Said William Durand. And in respect the Boy So

             attached hath been in the Employment of Thomas Emmerson

             two Crops, The Court doth order that the labour of the Said

             Boy be Valued by mr Roger Groce, Lieut Richard Woolman

             William Tell, and Thomas Miles, and after the Labour of the

             Said Boy is So Valued, The Said Thomas Emerson is to de-

             liver the Valuation thereof with the Said Boy into the hands of

             the Said mr Durand, where the Sd Boy with the Valuation of

             his Labour, is to lye deposited, untill march Court next, then

             to be fully determined according to the abovesaid order, and

             the Said Durand to be Answerable for the Said Boy and the

             Valuation of his Labour, when it Shall be Lawfully determined.

             Order Granted to Mr Robert Clarke for Certaine Bills

               Whereas mr Robert Clarke hath by Petition Shewed to this

             Court, that he delivered into the hands of Iames Veitch

             Sheriffe, So many bills for ‘I'obacco due unto him the Said

             Clarke as amounted to five thousand Six hundred pounds of

             Tobacco or thereabouts Some part of it towards the payment

             of his fine, and the rest to be paid to mr John Norwood Sher-

             iffe of Providence in part of ffees due to him, And fforasmuch

       p. 318 as the Said Clarke Declaring unto the Court his Sad and poor

             Condition by reason of many Engagements, and desired reliefe

             therein, The Court taking his Condition into Consideration

             hath ordered that the Said Iames Veitch after Satisfying him-

             self and the Said mr Norwood all their Just and due Claime

             out of the Said Bills formerly delivered (wth the Said Veitch is

             to do at the next Court, and bond given by the Said Clarke

             for So much Tobacco, as the Sd Bills were given in for his fine

             Shall deliver the remaining part of the Bills or accompt of

             them unto the Said Clarke

             order Granted to Mr Michael Brooke for Administracon

               Administration is Granted unto Mr Michael Brooke upon the

             Estate of Bartholomy Bloome deceased

               Whereas it is reported and Information made by Richard

             Furbear that it is Suspected that John Dandy hath laid Violent

             hands upon a Servant of his named Henry Gouge who was