70 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649-50.

        Liber A.   The defendt acknowledgeth the debt It is therefore ordered

              that the defendant shall forthwith pay vnto the Complte

              Twelue hundred pounds of Tobacco in Caske.

              John Lewger gent Complte  The pltes suite being for Two thou-

              Henry ffoxe defendt sand pounds of Tobacco and Cask in

              part of ffive thousand pounds of Tobacco and Caske being the

              Consideracon vppon the defendants late purchase of the Man-

              nor of St Johns Wch two thousand pounds of Tobacco was

              payable this Cropp and the other three thousand the next

              Cropp according to Agreemt vppon the purchase And the

              defendant acknowledging the said Agreemt prayed that hee

              might bee settled in the possession of the said Mannor

              accordingly with the consent of Mr Thomas Hatton his Lopps

              Secretary being Attorney of Richard Bennett Esqr who claymed

              some estate therein from John Lewger Esqr ffather of the

              Compite And the said Mr Hatton declaring in open Court

              that bee was content the defendt should enioy his purchase

              Provided that the one half of the Tobacco payable for the same

              were duely paid vnto the said Mr Bennett or to him the said

              Mr Hatton for the said Mr Bennetts vse according to Agreemt

              betwixt him the said Mr Bennett and the Compite. It is there-

              fore ordered by and with the consent of the said Mr Thomas

              Hatton that the said defendant paying vnto him the said Mr

              Hatton for the vse of Richard Bennett Esqr and to the Corn-

              plte the said ffive thousand pounds of Tobacco and Caske viz:

              to either of them one thousand weight thereof a peice forth-

              with and fifteene hundred pounds weight thereof to each of

              them the next Cropp with Caske That then hee the said clefen-

              dant shall quietly and peaceably haue hold and enioy the said

              Mannor of St Johns to him his heires and Assignes for ever

              against the said John Lewger the ffather, John Lewger the

              sonne and the said Richard Bennett and all persons clayming

              by from or vnder them or any of them.

               This prsents witnesseth that I John Lewger Junior doe

              hereby alienate and sell vnto Henry ffox or his Assignes one

              Mannor called by the name of St Johns in St Georges River

              with all the Houseing and tenemts herevnto belonging in as

              full and ample Manner as it doth belong to mee by Assignemt

              from my ffather and Mr Richard Bennett And I doe further

              hereby warrant the Sale against any that shall lay any iust

              clayme against the said Land and Houseing thereto belonging

              And I the said John Lewger doe hereby binde my self to give

              possession vnto Henry ffox vppon the ifeast of St Thomas day

              next being the 21th of december next Witnes my hand this

              cernnd nf November 1650

                                              John Lewger

              Teste Phillipp Land, Henry Adams, Barnaby Jackson