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    sayd Knags snaches it out of his hand and tares immediatly his marke Liber A
    out of it

    and immediatly boath plantiue and defendant desiered that thear
    witnesses might haue thear oaths giuen them which was granted and
    are as followeth

      Thomas Crakson aged 22 years or thearabouts sworne and ex
    amined in open Court sayeth that William Boulls had hired William
    Knags and a littell after thay fell out and thearupon the sayd Knags
    not Caring to hue with him was prest to goe the susquehannok march
    and then hee sayd wheather hee was prest or no he wold haue gon
    wheather hee had any pay or no and that hee had rather loose his
    pay then not goe and further sayeth that the sayd Bouls Profered
    the sayd Knags an old Cow but hee woold not accept thearof whear
    upon the sayd Bouls tendered him a young Cow which hee accepted
    of and of the Calph also prouided it wear a Cow Calph if not the sayd
    Bouls promissed to deliuer him a Cow Calph which was then fallen
    and further sayeth that William Boules since this marches returne
    told the sayd Knags that if hee Coold recouer any thing by law hee
    woold giue it hime otherways hee woold giue him nothing

      William Henson Aged 25 years or thearabouts sworne and ex
    amined in open Court sayeth that william Bouls bid William Knags
    go home about his buisnes and hee replied that hee woold go the
    march and further sayeth not

      Mt Robert Hundly aged fortie for years or thearabouts sworne [p. 169]
    and examined in open Court sayeth that Coming unto William
    Boulses Coupen William Bouls beeing thear William Knags de
    manded a Cow and Calph of him which he pro fered him which hee
    refused telling him it was not according unto his Condition hee
    woold haue an other Cow which was thear in the pen and the sayd
    Bouls told him that if hee woold not accept of that Cow alredie
    profered hee shoold haue none and further sayeth not:

      Edward William Aged thertie fore years or thearabouts sworne
    and examind in open Court sayeth that William Knags demanded his
    wages of william Bouls one Sunday night for the time hee had serued
    him and that William Bouls bid him go home about his buisnes and
    when his time was out hee woold pay unto him all that was dew and
    the sayd Knags answered that hee was Prest and that hee must obay
    his presse, and upon a mustering day hee demanded his wages againe
    and that the sayd Bouls replied twice or thrice that an other time
    shoold sarue and the sayd Knags Pressing upon him for his wages
    the sayd Bouls told him hee woold pay him nothing but what hee
    shoold recouer by law and further sayeth not: