398      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664-65.
                Liber B B    Mr White and Mr Brooks takes theire Seates

                     Alexander D'hyniosa plt the ptt sues as in petn folio 419 the deft
                     Colt:     Nath: Vtie Deft denying that euer hee tooke the tobacco
                        force but wth the Consent of the said Morgan. Some wittnesses
                       being in this Cause wanting it is deferr'd till next Prouinciall Court,
                       and the said D'hyniosa now departing the Country, his Oath is de
                       sired to be left behinde concerning some more of his the said Vtyes
                       contemptuous and scandalous words uttered by him agst his Lops
                       rule & Gouernmt here, which is as followeth—
                       Alexandr D'hynoyossa late Gouernor of New Amstell aged 35
                     yeares or thereabouts maketh Oath—
                       That he was in the howse of Colt Nathaniell Vtie and told him it
                     would doe better for hime to deliuer this deponant his tobacco againe,
                     which he had disposed off, after hee this depont had receiued and
                     marked it wth his owne proper marke, which was Contrary to the
                     law of this Country, And the said Nathaniell Vtie answered this
                     depont twice he knew uery well what Country he was in, to which
                     this depont answered and I know uery well in what Country I am,
                     and the thirde time Colt: Vtie replyed I knowe uery well I am in the
                     Kings Country, to which this depont reply'd, but that notwithstand
                     ing in the Jurisdiccon of my Lord Baltemore, to which the said Vtye
                     reply'd, my Lord has lost the thirde parte of his Country allready
                [p. 486]  That is Delaware & the whore Kill and it may be will loose the other
                     two partes too, then this depont asked him for what reason and he
                     said my Lord hath allwayes writt himselfe Absolute Lord and Pro
                     prietr of this prouince, he is no Absolute Lord the King is Absolute
                     Lord, I answered him yoW doe not know what yow speake, in the
                     time when yow were in Commcon for Josias ffendall to demand the
                     towne att Delaware yow proposed to us that my Lord was a souer
                     aigne Lord & a little while afterwards yow Resolued to turne out yor
                     soueraigne Lord wth Josias ffendall and yet my Lord has pardoned
                     yoW and now yow see some oppertunity to affront my Lord againe
                     yow turne Coate Once more, afterwards I told hime that he would
                     doe well to deliuer me my tobaccoe againe by reason it was markt
                     and receiue by mee the deponant if soe be yow will not yow will haue
                     trouble about this bussinesse, he answered laughing at it what he had
                     done was by Order from the King and that he had past his bill of
                     sale to Abraham Morgan for the Negro in the name of his Matie and
                     as his Maties Atturney he was forct to looke after his Interest and
                     that he knew the Nigro was stole out of the fforte after Sr Robert
                     Carre had sold him to Hanns Block I answered him that it would
                     neuer be prou'd this negro was in the fforte, but that he was a Negro
                     properly belonging to mee the Depont and that he was deliuered me
                     by Peter Aldrick 3 weekes after the fforte was taken by the English
                     to which the said Vtye reply'd that he knew better, and that Sr Robert