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         Thomas Hamper acknowledgeth himselfe to owe unto Liber B.

       Walter Beane Six hundred pounds of Tobacco and caske and

       for better Security of payment thereof at or by the tenth of

       November next doth Mortgage and make over to him the Said

       Walter Beane his whole Cropp and other Estate whatsoever as

       Wittness his hand this 20th day of June 1651

                              Thomas Hamper x Mark

         Testor Tho. Hatton

         Upon the motion of Walter Beane and Walter Pakes who

       by Order of the 29th of December 1648 had been Admitted to

       the Administration of the Estate of Wm Smithfield deced and

       upon produceing their account upon Oath formerly taken

       whereby it appeared that they had fully Administred And

       nothing being objected to the Contrary albeit publick procla

       mation was this day made in open Court It is Ordered that the

       Said Walter Beane and Walter Pakes Shall have their Quietus p. 174

       est touching the Said Estate

       ffrancis Brook plt  Upon Reading of a former Order

       Mrs Margarett Brent made in this Cause the 20th of March

       Attorn of Capt Giles Brent Deft last and of a Certificate under the

       hand of Captain Robert Vaughan one of the Councell here

       under recited and produced by the Plt It appearing that the

       hearing was formerly respited for want of proof on the PIts

       part This Court thinks fit (notwithstanding the Defts absence

       and doth Order that Giles Brent Esq or the Deft on his behalf

       Shall pay unto the plt five hundred pounds of Tobacco and

       Cask for hire of the boat in question

         27o Junij Execuco inde ad Satisfaciend.

         ad execuco ad Satisfaciend to January 1652

         This 3d of Aprill 1651: I Robert Vaughan Gent do testifie

       upon my Oath that at Such time as Governor Calvert came

       last out of England to St Maries Capt Giles Brent then liveing

       upon Kent went down to St Maries in ffrancis Brookes's Shal

       lop, and that I heard Capt Brent Say that he would give the

       Said Brookes Satisfaction for the Same, And further I cannot

       Say Wittness my hand Robt Vaughan

         J urat coram me Tho Hatton

         Upon Henry Morgan's Petition this day Exhibited by ffrancis

       Brookes his Attorney to be relieved for certain ffees and

       Charges clue to him who was then Sherriff of Kent by the Im

       prisonment of Thomas Bradnox for ffelony who was acquitted

       thereof upon the tryal as was alleadged, And the Question

       being from whome the Said ffees and Charges are due, This