Provincial Court Proceedings, 1658. 235

by the Seauerne men, w^ch was for a Tweluemonth & a day, The w^ch
Estate was not remoued after the seruing. But their Officer came
to this Defend^ts howse, w^th one Cap^t Goulding, profering the s^d
Goulding & this Defend^t, th^t if they would bayle the Attatchm^t, th^t
then what was attatched should not be remoued (the Limitaon of the
fores^d Attatchm^t considered) The s^d Goulding & this Defend^t did
giue Bond for securing the Estate, But th^t to the best of this defend^ts

Liber
P. C. R.

remembrance the Estate attatched was not remoued untill a yeare &
six months after the date of the attatchm^t w^ch was for a yeare & a
day. And th^t when the Estate was conueyed away by Co^tt Sidney
out of the Prouince, it was not done w^th any his consent
Job Chandler.

To the hon^ble the Gou^r & Chancello^r & Councell &c :
The answere of Symon Ouerzee to a Bill of Complaynt prefowed
by Cap^t Thomas Cornewaleys in Chancery,
1. Whereas Cap^t Tho: Cornewaleys hath complayned agst Symon
Ouerzee That hee was ayding & assisting to the exportadn of the
Estate of Co^ll Yardley attatchd' att the suite of the s^d Cap^t Corne-
waleys for a Debt w^ch the s^d Ouerzee knew to be due to the s^d Corne-
waleys, w^ch he utterly denyeth.
2. That the s^d Ouerzee did some time past hyre a Sloope to M^rs
Yardley by Charter party, & shee was to Victuall & man the s^d
Sloope & pretended itt was to fetch her Crop from Portoback for 900^l
Tob. And the s^d Ouerzee deliuered the s^d Sloope att Lynne-hauen
where shee putt in for Master to obserue her Order Co^ll John Sidney
w^th Two other Seamen (Viz) Thomas Kedger & Thomas Haruey, if
any more he remembers them not.
3. They went to Portoback. What Lading they tooke in hee did
not know. But being dryuen hither by distresse of weather, putt
in here att S^t Maries att the s^d Ouerzees howse. Where they tarryed
about fiue or six dayes, the s^d Ouerzee all th^t time being absent, &
Cap^t Cornewaleys att his owne howse att the Crosse, And whither
Cap^t Cornewaleys had notice thereof he knows not, but might if he
would. The s^d Ouerzee comming home found the Sloope still Riding
before his Landing, & Co^tt Sidney then a shoare att his howse. And
being asked what hee had in the Sloope ? the s^d Co^ll answered hee had
Corne, Tob & Negroes. But whither he had any Prouision here, hee
cannot say: because hee did not know that hee needed any. And the
next day the wind being fayre the Co^ll returned to Virginia: and att
Lynne-hauen the s^d Ouerzee receaued his Sloope by his Attorney
according to Charter, & satisfaction to his content.
4. Lastly to the Cap^ts Complaynt th^t the s^d Ouerzee hath receiued
any Gwift of the s^d M^rs Yardley to inrich him to the preiudice of the
s^d Cap^t The s^d Ouerzee doth posituely deny, as utterly false & untrue.
Symon Ouerzee

p. 192