494  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.

              Liber F F  Haslins Estate, & make him as poore a man as Anthony. This De-
                     pont aduised him to be camefull of his words, saying, If yow cannot
                     proue it, yow will bring yorselfe into trouble. Dimondidier againe
                     replyed That in ffiue words speaking hee could turne him out of his
                     estate. This Depont asked him what those words were? Dimondi
                     diem replyed, That when hee was brought to his oath hee would proue
                     his words.
                       James Sowthward cothing from Virginia suddenly uppon these
                     passages, This Depont acquainted him wth the same. Sowthward
                     replyed, The Rascall had best to haue a care of his eares, ffor hee
                     would hauc his cares if hee went to the Court them hee should
                     goe home wthout them, & further sayth not. Geo: Saughier
                       Sworne before mee Tho: Besson.
                       This Deposn was acknowledged by George Saughier himselfe Viua
                     Voce in Court/
                       Mary Stanley in ditt. sworne sayth, Thai when James Sowthward
                     came downe, her master Jeremiah Haslin first intended to giue him
                     part of his Estate, towards the keeping of a Lame Child. Afterwards
                     her sd master told this Depont, saying, That James Sowthward should
                     scrape noe Land of his, Bidding him goe ouer the Creeke & drinke
                     water (Sowthward then asking for Beere) for bee should haue noc
                     Beere att his howse.
                       John Webster further examined sayth, That Two nights before
                     his master Haslyn dyed, Hee was kept out of the roome where his
                     master lay sick, eyther by James Sowthward, or by his fellow seruant
                     Anthony Mondidier. After a small time Anthony came out of his
                     masters roome, & sayd these words, Now there is a Cow calf e & a
                     sow for Anthony Mondidier.
                       The will (soc mentioned) being fownd uppon the Records & read in
                     Court, & there being but one wittnes to tht will (Vizt) Anthony
                     Dimondidier & hee a Legatee in that will, The Judgmt of the Board
                 [p. 84] is, That that will is noe will. The sd James Sowthward hauing only
                     Letters of Admistrãon graunted to him of the foresd Jeremiah Has
                     lyns Estate.
                       These things being scene & heard & fully Considered by the Board,
                     Ordered That the Heyre of Jeremiah Haslin, now marryed to Philip
                     Holleger, bee putt into possesn of the Land of her father.
                       And further Ordered tht James Sowthward (as Admistrato of
                     the sd Jeremiah Haslyn) giue an Acct of that estate, during the time
                     hee hath bene in possesn of the same, to the next Prouinciall Court/

                      The Court adiorned ‘till afternoone.

               ffriday afternone 13th Octobr 1665. All prsent as aforenoone.