236 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1658.

Liber
P. C. R.

Thomas Haruey Sworne in open Court Sayth th^t M^rs Yardley
hyred the Sloope of M^r Ouerzee att Lynne-hauen to make a uoyage
for Maryland. And told this Depon^t that hee was in her seruice till
he came downe againe. And comming up to Maryland hee knew
nothing of the transporting the negros till Co^ll Sidney tooke them in.
Hee imagined they were only to carry downe Tob & Corne. And
comming downe Patowmeck they putt in into S^t Georges Ryuer
riding in the Riuer 4 or 5 dayes, & th^t they had some Victualls att
M^r Ouerzees but M^rs Ouerzee gaue it to them. And arryuing att
Lynne Hauen the Sloope was deliuered to M^r Ouerzees Attorney
there; & th^t M^rs Yardley payd M^r Ouerzee this Depon^ts hyre & M^r
Ouerzee himself e was to pay him.

p. 193

To the hon^ble Josias ffendall Esq^r Gouerno^r & Chancello^r of Mary-
land, & the Councell of State
The Reply of Thomas Cornewalleys to the answers of Job Chand-
ler & Symon Ouerzee to a Bill of Complaint exhibited in Chancery
agst the s^d Parties by the s^d Tho: Cornewaleys Humbly Sheweth
That both the s^d Answers are imperfect & little to the purpose of
the Charge alleaged agst them in the Bill. Only the s^d Chandler al-
leageth th^t the Consideraon mentioned in the Bill guyen for the s^d
Debt was only a small watch of little ualue. The Complayn^t sayth &
will be deposed was a watch w^th an allarum th^t went aboue 24 howers,
w^th the day of the month, & cost him w^th the Syluer Case 17^l Sterl.
& Twenty Shillings payd downe in money. And whereas the s^d
Chandler sayth th^t the Estate & Land did solely & properly belong to
M^rs Sara Yardley, being purchased by her Estate; the s^d Co^tt Yardley
being bownd afore marriage, not to meddle w^th the same during her
life. W^ch Bond after Marriage was of noe Validity, nor the s^d
Estate nor Land commonly knowne or reputed during the s^d Co^tt
Yardleys life, for other then his, nor did shee euer endeauo^r by such
claime during her life to cleare the s^d Land or Estate by Law from
his iust Debts w^thin this prouince. But priuately & surreptitiously
by the ayde & assistance of the defend^ts conueyed out of this Prou-
ince, To w^ch Charge in the Complayn^ts Bill there is noe answere
gyuen by the s^d Chandler. And the s^d Ouerzee confesseth to haue
lett his Sloope for 900^l Tob by Charter part, W^ch the Complayn^t
prayeth may be produced: but neyther answereth how, where, nor in
what the s^d Tob was payd, nor by whom, nor who payed the man th^t
Sayled in her, w^th some other particulars charged in the s^d Bill,
whereby the Truth may appeare, th^t the s^d Sloope was fraudulently
hyred & nothing payd. Wherefore the Complayn^t humbly prayeth
th^t both the s^d Answers may bee amended & each particular Clause
in the s^d Bill fully answered as it ought, & hee shall pray &c.
Ordered that sometime before the end of this Court they putt in
their Answers to the s^d Reply.