560  Court and Testamentary Business, 1657.

        Liber B. Hostkeys be forthwith Satisfied the Said debt out of the Estate

        No. of the Said Dandy or Else Execution

             Order for Jo: Nevills fine

               Whereas John Nevill by a former order of this Court was

             for Some Notorious Crimes Specified in the Said order, Cen-

             sured to be whipt, And Whereas divers Neighbours have Sub-

             scribed to a Petition that the Court would remitt the Said pun-

             ishment of whipping and Instead thereof, Impose a fine upon

             the Said Nevill in hopes his future Carriage, and Comportment

        p. 351 will testific his better Conversation. The Court at the Said

             Subscribers request doth order that instead of his the Said

             Nevills Corporall punishment, a fine of five hundred pounds of

             Tobacco be Imposed upon the Said Nevill And if duely paid

             by the Said Nevill or his friends the Subscribers of the Said

             Petition upon Demand to publique use, then the Said former

             order of punishment to be Void, or else to Stand in force, any

             thing in this order to the Contrary notwithstanding with Cost

             of Suit, Else Execution

               The Subscribers to the aforesaid Petition have acknowledged

             themselves to be willing to pay the Said fine, in Case the Said

             Nevill Shall not himself be able.

               Mrs lane Eltonhead aged forty yeares or thereabouts Sworne

             and Examined in open Court Sayth that She this Deponent

             heard Capt ifendall Say that Collo Smith had a Boy aboard,

             who was no Servant, but that he thought if he the Said ifendall

             would give him good words, he mought make him his Servant

             or words to that purpose    Signum

                                  Jane x Eltonhead

               Aron Jacobson aged 27 yeares or thereabouts Sworne and

             Examined in open Court the 4th of November 1657 Sayth that

             he heard Iohn Little Say in or about July last in his own house,

             that if mr Fran: Stockley were alive he would lustifie that

             Elizabeth Potts was dishonest with him the Said Littles Indian

             Boy, in his Come field And further this Deponent heard mrs

             Little make reply upon this discourse of her husband John

             Little, that if the Little Boy Cornelius his Servant his oath

             Could be taken in Court, that he Could Say more in the Same

             busieness then the Said Little had Spoken, and likewise She

             the Said Mary Little did farther Say, that if the Indian could

             be Sufferred to take his Oath, he could Say more then any one

             hath Spoken, and would lustifie that they had lay'n together.

                                             Aron Jacobson