28 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1657-8.

Lib. B. No. 3
Re Estate of
Slingsby

Deposit de Slingsby
Thomas Lomax Aged about 27 yeare Sworne and Examined the
22^d of January Anno Dom: 1657 Sayeth, That upon Wednesday the
13^th of lanuary 1657 Iohn Slingsby being in the now dwelling house
of Wil^lm Marshall, Sayed unto the Said William take now all that I
have, and lett me See how you will maintaine me, to which the Said
William Replyed. Iohn So Soon as I Come from the mill, I will give
you from under my hand, to maintaine you, in meate Drink Apparrell
& Lodging So Long as you live, and if I dye before you You Shall
be maintained out of what Estate I Leave behind me, And farther
this Deponent Sayth that Iohn Slingsby made Answer; then all that
I have is yours, And farther Sayth not Thom Lomax
Iurat Coram me Iohn Hatch

lanuary the 22^d Anno Dom: 1657
Iohn Dougles aged one and twenty years or thereabouts Sworne
and Examined upon Oath the 13^th of this present lanuary, Sayeth
that he this Depon^t heard Iohn Slingsby Say unto his master William
Marshall as he was Sitting in a Chaire, with these words, now I am
Come, and will give you all that I have, and See now how you will
maintaine me. And farther this Deponent Sayth, that his master
told Iohn Slingsby, that if he dyed before Iohn Slingsbey that his
Estate Should maintaine him So Long as he Lived, And farther this
Deponent saith he heard Slingsbey reply, that all was his masters
And farther Sayeth not
lurat Coram me Iohn Hatch Iohn Duglas

p. 396
Recorded
for M^rs ffen-
wick this
14^th day of
ffeb. Annis
Dom:, 1657

Know all men by these presents that I Luke Barber of Newtowne
within the Province of Maryland Gent, do acknowledge my Self to
owe and Stand indebted unto m^rs Iane ffenwick of Putuxent of the
Province abovesaid in the full and Iust Sume of Thirty pounds of
Lawfull English money to be paid unto her the Said m^rs ffenwick
her heirs Administ^rs or Assignes, on the Thirtieth day of Iune, which
Shall be in the yeare of our Lord God 1658. In or at the Royall
Exchange in London.

Fenwick v.
Barber

And for the true performance of w^ch payment I the Said Luke
Barber do hereby (for her the Said m^rs ffenwicks better Security)
bind over unto her the Said m^rs ffenwick, That mare with her whole
increase and one young horse (for w^ch this Said bond is due) and
twenty pounds Sterling to be paid to her the Said m^rs ffenwick her
heirs or Assignes (over and above the Said Horses and their In-
crease) on the Thirtieth of Iuly after the date of the Bond above
Specified, in Case the Said Sume of Thirty pounds be not defrayed,
and paid as is afore Provided To all which I the Said Luke Barber
do bind my Self, my heirs Executors, and Administrators firmly