530       Chancery Court Proceedings, 1678.

        Liber P C  promised this def.t that he & his wife should not want nothing that
               he had And that the said Def.t upon those faire termes proposed as
               aforesaid agreed with Cap.t Walter Dunch for the passage of him-
               selfe wife & one woeman serv.t And the said John Avery for him-
               selfe & one woeman serv.t And that the said Shipe being stayed as
               Graves Ende by an Embargoe the Said John Avery heareing of a
               writt taken our agt him out of the high Co.rt of Admiralty made a
               deed of Gift to the said deft of all his Goods on board the said Shipp
               & delivered one pewter dish in the name of the whole with the deed
               And that the said John Avery came on board the said Shipp at the
               downes And the said John Avery at sea demanded of the said Def.t
               the said Deed of Gift which he refused to deliver And the def.t
               further Sheweth that being sick he the sd John broke open the Said
               Def.ts Chest in the night & tooke out all his writeings And that
               afterwards arriveing in this province all the Goods were Landed at
               the said Averys house and that the said Def.t delivered to the said
               Avery whatsoever he claimed to be his And denieth that the said
               John paid for the passage of the defts wife for England And further
               shewed that the said John Avery's and the said Def.t8 Passage were
               paid for England out of the money recovered as aforesaid And
               Confesses that his wife had Severall times money out of the money
               recovered in England but denieth that he knows what sume And the
               said Def.t Denies that he ever reced of the said Avery the value of
               Twenty shillings more then what he ptsently repaid him And that
               the said John Avery did never entrust him with all the goods
               menconed in the said Schedule but what the said Avery claimed
               as his due he delivered them to him And the said Def.t utterly
               denys that he ever was a suitor to the said Avery to goe with him
               for England or that ever he prtended any Estate to be fallen unto
               him but that he went with him the said John Avery upon the
               grounds & motives before menconed & noe other Denieth that the
               said John Avery Lent him one pound sterl. to putt in his pockett
               And the said deft utterly denyes that the said John Avery took up
               Lodgeings for him & his wife or paid for the same or that ever the
               said Avery did entrust him with the keepeing of any sume or sumes
               of money whatsoever or that the Said Avery Lent him money to buy
           p.  Cloths for himselfe wife & Serv.t or for the paying of his owne his
               wifes & two Serv.ts passages or that the same Schedule or any
               Coppy or transcript thereof was either of the hand writeing of the
               said Def.t And denieth that he hath one ifarthing of the said Averys
               money or Goods in his hands or that he was indebted to the said
               Avery or his Ex.rs one farthing or the value of a ffarthing And
               saith that the goods menconed in the Schedule aforesd are most of
               them in the Inventory of the said Averys Estate or at Least ought
               to have binn as by the sd Bill & Answeare remaining upon Record