438        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674.

       Liber P C  have in his possession all the goods in the Inventory by him exhibited
              upon Oath Therefore Ordered that John Bigger jur doe pay unto
              the said Robert Lasley the administrator of John Bigger Sen
              deceased the value of the said Inventory by the said Bigger jur ex-
              hibited upon Oath vizt eight thousand six hundred and five pounds
              of tobacco together with sixteen dozen of wooden combes and three
              dozen of pins or the true value for which he sold them
                Now here at this day to wit the fiftenth day of April in the two
              and fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Came the said
              John Bigger jur in his proper person and Offered himselfe to satisfie
              the abovesaid Order.
              Margarett Penry complt  The Honble Samuel Chew and
                    agt           Thomas Taylor Esqrs both members
              Thomas Howell George Wells of this Court being appointed Audi-
              & Johanna Goldsmith, defts tors to audite state and examine the
              accompts of the defts Howell and Goldsmith, of the estate of ffrancis
              Wright deceased, And also to examine wittnesses upon Oath on
              either part and to meete at such tymes and place as they in their
              judgment shall thinke fitt and seeme convenient & make report to the
              Court how much shall be found due from the defendts Howell and
              Goldsmith to the estate of the said Wright So that the Court being
              fully informed of the truth may doe therein as to right and justice
              appertaines.
                Now here at this day to wit the sixtenth day of April in the 42th
              yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &C The Said Samuel Chew and
              Thomas Taillor made their report as followeth vizt
                By virtue and in Obedience to an Order of the high and honble
              Court of Chancery to Us underwritten directed bearing date the
              thirtenth day of ffebruary last past impowring Us in a cause betweene
              Margarett Penry Complainant and Thomas Howell George Wells
              and Johanna Goldsmith defendants to audite state and examine the
              accompts of the defts Howell and Goldsmith of the estate of the said
              Wright Wee the said Auditors thought fitt and convenient to meete
              at the house of John Larkin in Ann Arundell County upon the
              twenteth day of March last past and did give timely notice of our
              said meeting unto the said Complt and the said defts that Wee should
              be then and there ready to audite their said accompts. On which
              said twenteth day of March at the place aforesaid the defts Thomas
              Howell did appeare with his papers and accompts aforesaid with One
           p. 55  Wittnesse named John Claver who being examined by Us did take
              his Corporall Oath that two Negro Servants to the said Wright
              that is to say One man named Robert and One woman called Mary
              did dye upon the plantation in the yeare 1669. And that the said
              Complt did not appeare untill the 24th of the same month of March