552Court and Testamentary Business, 1657.

        Liber B. The Deposition of mr William Wilkinson aged fiftie yeares

        No.3. or thereabout Examined and Sworne this 13th of Aprill 1657

             Sayeth that your Deponent moved John Pritchard, then

             being Sick but in perfect memory of which Sickness he Shortly

             dyed, if he ought Capt John Price any Tobacco, he Said yes he

             ought Capt John Price one hundred and fiftie pounds of To-

             bacco, And further Sayth not.

      lurat Coram me John Lawson          William Wilkinson

             Roger Scott plft    Whereas Roger Scott hath Petitioned this

             Tobias Norton deft Court for a debt of four hundred and Sixteen

             pounds of Tobacco and Caske due from Tobias Norton unto

             mr Henry Hooper, and assigned by the Said Hooper to the

             Said Scott, And the Said Scott praying for an order, and the

             Said Norton not appearing, The Court doth order that the

             Said Norton Shall Satisfie unto the Said Scott, the Said Suffie

             of four hundred and Sixteen pounds of Tobacco and Caske,

             or Shew at the next Court reason to the Contrary or Else

             Execution

             mr thom: Sprige pift Whereas mr Thomas Sprige arrested to

             John Nevill deft this Court Iohn Nevill for the paymt of Six

             hundd pounds of Tobacco and Caske, for a Cow Sold the Said

             Nevill by the Said Sprige, And it appearing to this Court that

             the Cowe being lost, by reason of Some neglect for want of

             delivery of the Said Cowe, by the Said Sprige The Court doth

             order that the Said Nevill Shall Satisfie unto the Said Sprige

             three hundred pound of Tob and Caske in full Satisfaction of

             the Said debt of Six hundred pounds of Tob, and the Said

             Sprige to pay Cost of Suit

               John Reed aged 28 yeares or thereabouts Sworne and Ex-

             amined Sayeth That mr Thomas Sprige Sold unto Ino Nevill a

             bobb tayled Cowe, and that John Nevill looked upon the Cowe

             and Said this Cowe I will have mr Sprigge Thereupon told

             him the Said Nevill that that Cowe he Should have And

             farther this Deponent Saith not.     Signum

                                       John J R Reed

       p.342 The Deposition of Hugh Johnson aged about 17 yeares

             Sworne Sayeth, that mr Thomas Sprige Sold unto John Nevill

             one black Cowe and delivered the Said Cowe to John Nevill,

             and told him that he would not Stand to the Hazard of her,

             but he told him that the boy Should look to her as his owne

             Cowes till that She had Calfed, And farther this Deponent

             Saith not.

             Jurat Coram me Jo: Pott         Hugh Johnson