500   Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.






               Liber F F  sett, was, when ffrancis Mogge came to goe in, unto whom hee an
                      swered hee would open the Doore presently & was busey, hee would
                      Lett him in by & by. And further sayth tht hee saw great Packs of
                      goods lying att Mr Balleys Beds foote whom by discourse hee asked
                      whose goods they were & Mr Staple fort answered tht they belonged
                      to W Balley, & further sayth not/

                        Thomas Howe sworne sayth, That hee hath beene seuerall times
                      att John Balleys howse & hath seene great Packs of Goods in his
                      Roome, & Demanding whose they were? Mr Staplefort tould mee
                      they were John Balleys, & tht hee had noe interest in them, nor in any
                      goods tht came in eyther last yeare or this yeare, But only for the
                      Plantãon & the things belonging thereto, & for the Vessell wch were
                      in halfes betwixt them, & further sayth not.

                 [p. Mr ffrancis Anketili aged 39 yeares or thereabouts sworne sayth,
                      That in or about Nouembr I was desyred by Mr Balley wth Mr Collett
                      to Arbitrate his & Mr Stapleforts accounts, betweene them, And they
                      mett att my howse where wee did peruse the accounts, & desyred tht
                      wee might haue them in Our possesns, And tht Mr Bayley deliuered in
                      his accts & in Brother Staplefort alleaging hee was not soe good a
                      scrybe nor soe prfect in his accounts as Mr Bayley, sayd, That hee
                      would not deliuer his account to noe man, but tht hee would read
                      them to us himselfe, whereuppon they begun to alleage what each
                      other did disallow in their seuerall accounts, And tht I did take a
                      Coppey of the objections tht were not allowed of by Staplefort in
                      Mr Balleys Acct & Mr Balley tooke a Coppey thereof, And all the other
                      Articles were allowed of by W Stapiefort, And tht when they begun
                      to dispute the cause betweene themselfes Mr Brother Staplefort al
                      leaging tht hee would not haue the Accounts of the Mannados in Tob.
                      but in money sterling according to New England pay, And uppon this
                      they began to discord aggrauating each other wth words, whereuppon
                      wee sayd there was little good to bee done, & soe I rose from the
                      Table & went forth of the doores, ifurther that being att my Brother
                      Stapleforts howse I did see in the Hall dyuers Bayles of goods, wch
                      my Brother Staplefort told mee were Mr Balleys, & further sayth not.

                        Mr Richard Collett aged 44 yeares or thereabouts, sworne sayth,
                      That in or about the of Nouembr It was desyred by Mr Staple-
                      fort & W Balley, That I & Mr Anketill would bee pleased to bee Arbi
                      trators betweene them, Where Mr Bailey chose Mr Anketill & Mr
                      Stapiefort this Depont, And wee mett att Mr Anketills, where they
                      produced their accounts, Amongst wch Mr Balley produced his acct
                      Concerning accounts betwixt them Consisting of seuerall matters,
                      In wch accounts Mr Staplefort did allow of all the Articles by the ac
                      count produced wch this Depont did Crosse himselfe, And those tht
                      were uncrossed Staplefort did not allow of, wch Articles not allowed
                      of or uncrossed Mr Anketill did take a Coppey of himselfe & Mr
                      Bailey did likewise take a Coppey thereof, & left the other Mr