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                      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.

              Liber B B  of Nouembr then next ensueing, and tenn thowsand pounds of tobac
                     coe on the tenth of Nouembr which was in the yeare of Our Lord
                                     1660--
                       That upon the 11th Augt 1659 Sampson Cooper maketh his last
                     will and Testament and Constituteth Major George Coiclough Col
                     lonell Jno Trussell Ouerseers of his will and to take Care of his sonn
                     Samuell and of his debts here in Virga willeth that during his Sonn
                     Samuell's stay in this Country he in noe wise Liue att Hugh Lees
                     howse nor that the said Hugh Lee meddle wth any part of his Estate
                     and Constitutes his two Sonns Samuell & Jonathan Cooper
                     Bridgett wife to the testator Executors Mr Nicholas Ketchmade &
                     Anthony Branthwayte to bee Ouerseers of his two Sonns and this
                     will wth Mr Cooke of London Silkman, And that Major George Col
                     clough and Samuell Cooper administer of all his Estate in Virga and
                     recouer Debts and send for England as by his will more att large
                     appeareth. Now soe it is may it please yor Honors the said Hugh Lee
                     hauing in his life time an intent to defraud the said Cooper not only
                     of the twenty thowsand pounds of tobaccoe awarded him by the
                     Arbitrators aforesaid, but allsoe of the specialty of flue hundred
                     pounds sterling aforemenconed and all other debts due to the said
                     Cooper to the uallue of 8oooth tob: and other Goodes as will appeare
                     by the Inuentory to the Court of Northumberland in Virga exhibited,
                     And Surreptitiously Seizes takes and Caryes away a trunke of write
                     ings and Goods belonging to the saide Sampson Cooper decd and left
                     in the Possession of Mary Trussell whereby yor Orator is left remedi
                [p. 285] less in the law, unles releiued by this honble Court for which unjust
                     and illegall proceedings of the said Lees hee was by warrt brought
                     before Mr John Rogers one of the Commrs of Northumberland
                     County in Virga to giue security to answere the law And att a Court
                     held for the said County of Northumberland 21th May 166o, It was
                     Ordered that the sherriffe forthwith take bond of the said Lee with
                     sufficient security for his appearance before the Gouernor and Coun
                     cell of Virga to answere his aforesaid Crime, att which time the said
                     Lee puts in for his security Richard fflint and John Hayne of the
                     said Collony who were accepted and allowed by the Court but neuer
                     made his appearance flying from the Justice of that Collony into this
                     Prouince and moreouer Contrary to the last will and Testamt of the
                     said Cooper procures Letters of Administracon in this Prouince and
                     Administers upon the said Estate, and soon after dyes Whereupon
                     Hannah Lee the Relict of the said Hugh Lee upon the 25th of De
                     cember Admters upon the Estate of the said Hugh Lee her deceased
                     husband, and marryes William Price agt whome as well as the said
                     Hannah Lee his wife yor Orator humbly prayes Writt of Subpa that
                     as well the said Hannah as the said William Price her husband may
                     sett out upon Oath what bonds or other writings they now att this
                     time haue or att any time heretofore had belonging to the Estate of
                     the said Sampson Cooper as also what Contracts Couenants or