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58 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.
Liber A. with pay vnto the Complaynant ffifteene Hundred and Sixty pounds of Tobacco and Caske. 8 March Execuc. ad satis- faciend Edward Hall plte The plte sues for twelue hundred weight Robt Brooke Esqr deft of Tob: and Caske due to him from the deft 26 decembr last by Bill and payable on St Georges River and one hundred and twenty pounds of Tobacco and Caske p Accompt To wch the defendt (appearing by his Attorney) in Answere saith and confesseth that the pke had his Specialty for 1200 weight of Tob. and that hee owed him over and aboue for two bushells of Onyons wch he valued at 120 l more. for wch hee said bee would make him over a manservant bound for foure yeares. bee giving the deft the Remainder in Tobacco or paying as much to his Credditors as would make it 2400' of Tob: wch the deft conceived was a faire satisfaccon And soe desired the suite might bee dismissed. Vppon wch confession of the defts in his Answere It is ordered that hee the said deft shall forthwith pay vnto the Complte Thirteene hundred and twenty pounds of Tobacco and Caske.
Robert Kedger plte The pltes suite being for 820 l of Tob:
Robert Brooke Esqr deft and Caske due to him from the deft by Bill the 10th of November last. and 167 l of Tob: & Caske more p Accompt for 33 l and an half of Butter sould him. To wch the deft (appearing by his Attorney) answered onely that the plte had dealt very vnworthely with him for that hee had promised to stay for his Tobacco till the next Cropp And that the deft had proofe thereof. To wch the Compite Replyed that true it was hee made the deft a condiconall pmise to forebeare soe as hee would assigne him over Bills for his debt somewhere vppon or neere St Georges River And the defts sonne Mr Charles Brooke being examined said the pite did make such a pmise as was menconed in his ffathers Answere but it was soe done vppon some further Agreemt wherevppon it is thought fitt by this Court and soe ordered. that vnles the defendt shall by the next Court either assigne over to the plte good Bills for his debt vppon or neere St Georges River payable the next Cropp or then shewe good Cause to the contrary hee shall then with- out further order or Judgmt herein forthwith pay vnto the Compite Nyne hundred eighty seaven pounds of Tobacco and Caske Noe Cause shewed this being the 8th of March 1651
John Buttery pite the plte sues for paymt for five weekes Robt Brooke Esqr deft worke being a Carpenter after the rate of 450' of lob, and Caske p moneth by Agreemt The deft by his Answere confesseth hee hired him for 450' of Tob.
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