278 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1659.

Liber
P. C. R.

horse, ffbr sayd shee my neighbo^r John Reade being att S^t Maries
(about six weekes before I tooke up this horse) to take up a mare,
w^ch hee had brought of Cap^t Mitchell, & bringing her up w^th Will^m
Boremans Mare into Cap^t Stone's Cowpen, There was a Roand

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horse amongst them, w^ch was this horse of mine. The s^d John Reade
asking Rob^t Hill whose Roand horse th^t was ? the s^d Hill replyed th^t
hee was M^rs ffenwicks horse, Whereuppon John Reade asked the s^d
Hill to lend him a Roape, to take up the s^d horse, ffor (sayd hee)
I heard M^rs ffenwicke say, th^t shee will send downe for him, M^r
Mathews replyed That hee would say, or sweare as much as all that
comes to, ffor this I can say (sayd hee) That this is the horse th^t
was allwayes taken for yo^rs.
John Bogue allso further sayth, That sometime in Octob^r last was
tweluemonth hee did goe w^th M^rs ffenwick to S^t Maries to M^r Math-
ews howse, where hee heard M^rs ffenwick aske M^r Mathews, if th^t
he had scene her horse? Who presently asked her of what colour
her horse was ? shee sayd, hee was a Roand horse, & had three white
feete, & a while suipe duwne the face. M^r Mathewes presently
replyed th^t that was none of his horse, for (sayd hee) my horse hath
fowre white ffeete, & is white from one eye to the other, But the
horse th^t hath allwayes gone in yo^r name M^rs ffenwick (sayd M^r
Mathewes) Cap^t Cornewaleys hath taken up, & hee is lame of his
legge, ffor Cap^t Cornewaleys hath made the s^d horse to swimme
ouer S^t Inego's Creeke, into my neck of Land, & w^thout yo^u take him
up & looke after him, infallably hee will be lost, ffor wee (sayd hee)
did take him to bee the Preists horse, thinking th^t the neighbo^rs might
be mistaken in calling him allwayes yo^r horse: because wee knew
not, whither yo^u had a horse here or not. But this is the horse th^t
euer was called yo^r horse. M^rs ffenwick replyed That shee was then
come downe on purpose to fetch home her horse, & for th^t end had
brought John Bogue w^th her. But sayd shee I must goe to the
Crosse tomorrow to giue Cap^t Cornewaleys & his Lady a uisitt, & as
I returne back, I will take up my horse, Whereuppon M^r Mathewes,
sayd If the horse bee yo^rs M^rs ffenwick yo^u were best looke after
him, or infalliably hee will bee lost, ffor wee (sayd hee) looking up
Our horses lately, & finding a horse left wee tooke up this horse,
thinking th^t hee was the Preists, But (sayth hee) if the horse should
proue to bee the Preists, yo^u would haue satisfaction for yo^r labour
w^th out question, M^rs ffenwick answered th^t shee would take up the
horse as her owne. & thereuppon desyred this Depon^t & her sonne
Cuthbert to goe take up the horse; M^r Mathewes being p^ent sayd,
That this horse had euer gone in the name of yo^r horse, untill w^thin
these six weekes, And this Dep^t further sayth, th^t as soone as hee &
Cuthbert ffenwick came in sight of the s^d horse, hee this Depon^t sayd
That this is the horse by his Naturall markes, & as soone as hee this