558Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665-66.





             Liber F F   the abouesaid Clothes and goods to the uallue of foure thowsand
                    and four hundred pounds of tobacco yor petr hauing demanded them
                    of the abouesaid Hempsted he the sd Hempsted detaines them and
                    refuseth to de!iuer them unto yor petr as he shall make appeare
                      Wherefore yor petr humbly Craueth Ordr of this Honble Court
                    for four thowsand four hundred and odd pounds of tobacco or his
                    Goods & Clothes abouesd wth Cost & Charge of Suite And he shall
                    pray &c                         Abraham Rowse
                    Abraham Rowse plt The deft put's in his answere—(uizt) The
                    Wm Hempsted deft deft saith for his ,plea, that for the great un
                    certainty in the declaracon as to the detainer the writt ought to abate
                    and thereupon prayeth the Judgment of this Court—Whereupon time
                    granted till next Prouinciall Court to put in a reply

                      Then Came Mrs Mary Bateman into Court and acknowledgeth
                    Judgmt unto Docter Luke Barbier for the sume of ffowre hundred
                    pounds of tobacco
                Lp. 173] The Court adjourns untill nine of the Clock tomorrow morning
                  All mett as yesterday, this being the 5th of January 1665

                      Then Wm Caluert Escp puts into Court his informacon Concern
                    ing the Vessell Hopewell of Kingsaile in Ireland for trading & trans
                    porting Goods Contrary to the Act of Parliament wch was read
                      John Gilson the master thereof desires time untill his Attorney
                    Capt Thomas Mannyng Comes of from the Jury, wch was Granted
                    \\Tm Smyth plaintiffel Compounded—The Condicon betweene the sd
                    Sam Reape defendt partyes was in Open Court proued by Thomas
                    Dent & Henry Hyde the wittnesses thereto, and wthall it was proued
                    by the Oath of Tho: Bennitt That the plt did deliuer unto the deft
                    the tarr & nayles exprest in the Condicon

                      Then Came Mrs Mary Bateman into Court and acknowledgeth
                    Judgmt unto Mr Isaack Bedloe for the sume of Two thowsand ffowre
                    hundred and twenty pounds of tob: uppon Bill

                      Marmaduke Snow Came into Court and acknowledged that he
                    doth & shall take notice of the scire facias uppon the writt of Error
                    now granted in Court to Thomas Gerrard wthout any further warn
                    ing or notice to be giuen him by aiiy Instrumt whatsoeuer, for his
                    appearance on the first day of the next Assembly

               [p. 174]  Henry Haire plaintiffel The deft not appearing and the Court Con-
                    Jonathan Sibrey deft sidering the hardness of weather for Boates
                    to Come from Kent, it is Ordered that this Cause be Respited untill
                    next Prouinall Court