208    Charles County Court Proceedings, 1658-1662.

             LiberA     hows and told this deponant that Joseph Lentons wife was dead
                   and desired to haue sum drincke of this deponant for her funerall,
                   and baught a peece of morning ribbining of this deponant and also
                   three barrells of beer and inuited this deponant and his wife to the
                   funerall and by reason of the badnes of the weather tarried a day
                   or too thear and drank out one of the three barrells of beear thear in
                   part of the funerall as hee told this deponant and gaue this deponant
                   and his wife each of them a morning Ribining and further sayeth not.

                     Humpherie Haggate aged 33 years or thearabouts sworne and
                   examined in open Court sayeth that Ursula Lentons Widdow told this
                   deponant that her housband was newly dead and had made a will and
                   had impowred James Lee and John Tomkinson as Executors or
                   Ouerseers to her Estate and fetch this deponant out the will and
                   shewed it him and W Woodberie was witnes to it and that sum days
                   after shee told him that John Tomkinson and James Lee had agreed
                   with John Williams to liue thear and mannage her buisnes that year
                   thay beeing impowered by her housband shee woold not act without
                   thear Consent and this deponant sum few days after meeting with
                   Mr Woodberie who told that hee had made Joseph Lentons will and
                   after the decease of Ursula lenton John Williams braught out the
                   papers that belonged to Joseph lenton and shewed this deponant and
             [p. 205]   the rest of the Companie the same will which this deponant had
                   formarlie seene and sayd none of them shoold bee medled with by any
                   man untill sum person was qualified to take the estate into his hands
                   by law John Williams informed this deponant that hee had deliuered
                   thees papers unto W Francis Pope and that will amongs them and
                   James Lee inuited this deponant and his wife and and familie to
                   the funerall and thear thay had intertainment part of too days and
                   that the sayd Lee gaue morning ribining to the most of them that
                   wear thear and further sayeth not:

                     Jane Delahay aged 33 years or thearabouts sworne and examined
                   in open Court sayeth that Ursula Lenton sayd that John Tomkinson
                   and James Lee wear left Ouerseers to see his will fulfilled to her and
                   that John Tomkinson and James Lee Hired John Williams for hee
                   woold not bee hired by her and that thear was too barrells of beeare
                   Com up which was drank out at the funerall of them all and thear was
                   sum blacke ribining but how much this deponant knoweth not: and
                   further sayeth not:

                     Whearupon the sayd Thompson the formentioned Popes Atturney
                   Produced the sayd lenton will which is as followeth
                        this  day of December 166o
                     In the name of God Amen this my last will I beeing in good
                   memorie sheweth that I Joseph Lenton first Commend my Soule to
                   God my bodie to the Earth next I Giue all my Estate to my wife