20        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663.

               Liber B B Raph Crouch Joynt Executor Mr Mathews to Edward Cottons
               pauls post Estate doe wholy relinquish all my Right & Tytle thereunto for euer

                    hauing more to doe therein.—&c :—  Raph. Crouch.
                      Septembr 40 1662.

                      These presents to whom it may Concerne &c: That whereas I
                     Raph Crouch was (as it appeareth uppon the Records in Maryland)
                     made ioyntly Executor wth Mr Thomas Mathews of an Estate of
                     Edward Cottons, wch was left eyther for the setling of a schoole or
                     to bee employed (as I remember) uppon other pious uses, Though
                     Mr Pille if hee bee aliue can say, tht the true intent of the prty De
                     ceased was, That the sume of Tob to bee payd by John Warren was
                     to bee allowed to the upholding mee in my teaching the schoole, att
                     that time in hand, or much to this purpose. Notwthstanding I neuer
                     appropriated more to my selfe, as John Warren & his wife can af
                     firme, out of tht Estate, then One Bull & one steere. If this bee
                     thought amisse, there are Cattle of mine in the Country to repay them
                     in kind againe. As for the managing of what stock was left by the
                     Deceased, I would haue had them putt into John Greenwells hand
                     att New Towne: But as Barnaby Jackson well knoweth, Mr
                     Mathews would not consent thereto but presently tooke them to his
                     owne plantaon. And for most of the Debts hee receiued them him
                     selfe, Sauing what I receiued from John Warren of the Remainder
                     of a Bill of seauen or Eight Thowsand pownds of Tob, by the ap
                     poyntmt of Mr Mathews, who gaue mee John Warren's Bill whereby
                     to call for the Debt, Part of wch was bestowed by mee on such as
                     really was iudged by others as well as my selfe to haue releife, & soe
                     deemed an Act of Charity. That wch remayned, I bought Cattle of
                     John Warren att New Towne & Ordered they should bee marked
                     wth Edward Cotton's proper marke & to bee reserued in his hands
                     for some yeares, Of the ch stock hee is best able to giue a sufficient
                     accompt of them to any that shall demand it. And for my part I
                     wholly disclaime from euer hauing had any just account deliuered to
                     mee by Mr Mathewes eyther of what hee had payd for tht Estate
                     or receiued. To the best of my remembrance I layd out of that Estate
                     in John Warrens hand to the ualue of flueteene or sixteene hundd
                     pownds of Tob for Peter Eun's dyett & schooling, washing and
                [p. 21]  cloathing, One hundd or thereabouts for Cheese for Mr Reynolds &
                     his wife, both att tht time in greate wants, as John Warren & his
                     wife well knew. There was gyuen to Mr Brettons sonne & Daughter
                     an almes they being in Extremity of wants. The rest appeareth in
                     Cattle I doubt not yett extant in John Warrens hand att New Towne,
                     to bee deliuered by him uppon demand. I affirme boldly allsoe that
                     on my part I did (as appeared to all the neighbors) as much as lay
                     in mee, fullfill the will of the Deceased, in remoueing my teaching
                     of schoole to the New Towne: & there was ready some yeares to