Provincial Court Proceedings, 1658. 181

Jane Chambers aged 17 yeares or thereabouts Sayth, That the
second day of May, Elizabeth Potter & this Depon^t goeing to Good-
man Smiths howse there was a fidler, And th^e when they were goeing
home againe, This fidler sayd hee would goe to Cap^t Gwythers to
fetch a warr^t, And he not knowing the way Goodman Smith desyred
the s^d Elizabeth to shew him the path, as shee went along, W^ch shee
did, & it being late, hee desyred to take up his habitaon that night att
her howse, w^ch shee consented unto, The next morning the s^d ffidler
desyred Henry Potter to goe w^th him to Martin Kirke to demand a
Runaway, And the s^d Henry Potter sayd, If I should putt yo^u into
the s^d Kerks hands, for a Runaway, it would bee a pretty ieast. Doe
then sayd the ffidler, And the s^d Potter asked him if there would come
any harme thereof, or noe, & the ffidler answered noe, saying th^t if
Keirke should goe to pull him in, he should goe nigh to giue him a
dash in the Teeth, w^ch the s^d Henry Potter desyred him not to doe,
& further sayth not.
Jurat 7^o Octob. cora G. Thompson.

Rose Smith aged 59 yeares or thereabouts Sayth that Will^m
Thomas sayd in her hearing, That hee was sorry th^t hee tooke the
Oath agst Potter, ffor it would undoe him, & th^e M^r Caluert should
say, hee would banish the s^d Potter out of the Country, The s^d
Thomas asked M^r Caluert what hee would doe w^th Potters Children,
& M^r Caluert should reply, They would doe aswell w^th him as w^th
their Parents, & further Sayth not.
Jurat Eod die Cora G Thompson

John Bisco aged 49 yeares or thereabouts Sayth, That Will^m
Thomas did desyre Henry Potter to putt him into the Cunstables
hands for a Runaway, & th^t the s^d Potter did desyre him to declare,
whither he thought it would be the occasion of any trouble, yea or
noe, & that the s^d Thomas sayd noe, & further Sayth not.
Jurat Eod die Cora G Thompson.

Liber
P. C. R.
Re Potter
p. 138

Will^m Orsberston aged 33 yeares or thereabouts Sayth, That about
16 yeares agoe this Depon^t heard M^r Leonard Caluert force 300
Acres of Land uppon Thomas Orley & Isaack Edwards: of w^ch
they would haue had but 50: but because they were seated in the
cheifest place, & he threatning them to turne them of tooke the
whole 300 Acres. This their agreem^t was about Christmasse, & they
were to pay six barrells of Corne, & Twelue Capons yearely, & M^r
Caluert bownded them from the head of Langfords Creek to the
head of the Creek ioyning to the Plantaon, & this Depon^t was a
Seru^t att th^t time to Tho: Orley, & the s^d Orley sould him to Tho :
Allen & halfe the Land, & M^r Caluert comming downe, Tho: Butler
tould the s^d M^r Caluert That hee had but little good Land in his

Re Orley