468       Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675.

        Liber P C  said George ffulford for his advice and assistance for the payment
               of the money that should be due for the repayring of the Shipp
               aforesaid and there upon he the said Edward Leach forbadd the
               Camp :1t to medle with the Sale of any the said ifulfords Goods, but
               promised that in case the Comp :1t would Signe & Affirme two bills
               of Lading he then had ready drawne the one to the said George
               ffulford & the other to the said Edward Leach for the Goods in the
               same Shipp to be delivered to the said Edward att the Port in Mary-
               land he would lay out & disburse soe much as the said Shipp should
               cost repayring as aforesaid Where-upon the Camp :1t was constrained
               by necessity not withstanding he knew not of any Interest the said
               Leach had in the said Goods in his owne proper right not being soe
               much as named in the said Charter party, but all the Goods in the
               said Shipp were bound to the Camp :1t as security as aforesaid was
               perswaded & drawne by the said Leach to Signe & Affirme two Bills
               of Lading as aforesaid And the said Shipp being repayred & refitted
               to Sea as aforesaid did in short tyme afterwards to witt the third
               day of May One Thousand six hundred Seaventy six Arrive in the
               Port of Maryland & imediatly upon her Arrivall he the said Camp :lt
               att the request of the said Edward Leach caused most part of the said
               fuilfords Goods to be landed and putt a Shoare att the said Leach
               his Store & was ready to have putt the residue on Shoare & to have
               used all the Endeavours possibly f or relading her with Tobacco for
               England according to the said Charter party But the Comp :It & John
               Westcoate chiefe Mate of the said Shipp & severall other of the
               Seamen of the said Shipp haveing received certaine Intelligence from
               London by Letters trat the said George ffulford was broken and gone
               aside and that a comission of Bankrupt was taken out against him
               or threatened to be taken out, & that Caution was thereby given
               to the Camp :1t & Seamen to Secure the hire of the said Shipp &
               Seamens Wages & the Charge for the Victualls & Port dutyes either
               by the Said Goods Imported or by the Tobacco the produce thereof
               Exported or else they might Expect to receive nothing att the Port
               of discharge att London from the said fullford And thereupon the
               said Mate & Seamen came to the Camp :1t to have Satisfaction made
           p. 83   them for their Wages till which paid they refused To Assist in the
               Navigating the said Shipp or to suffer the said Master to deliver the
               Remainder of the said Goods to Leach being bound as aforesaid
               The Comp :1t thereupon applyed himself e to the said Leach, who (as
               the Comp :1t verily believed) was acquainted with his Imployers
               Condicon, combining with the said ffulford how to defraud the
               Camp :1t of the hire of the said Shipp & the Seamens Wages Victualls
               & Port dutyes aforesaid which the Camp :It desired him to pay or
               secure he the said Edward Leach not only refused soe to doe pre-
               tending the same was not yet due or payable but did demand the