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    shal doe or Cause to bee done in and for the Premisses I promis to Liber A
    allow performe ratifie and Establish thearto I bind mee my heirs Ex
    ecutors by thees presant in witnes whearof I the sayd Francis
    Doughtie haue set too my hand scale this 4th of June 1662
    signed sealed and deliuered Fancis Doughtie 0
      in the Presants of us
      Test John Washington
       Arthur Turner Samuell Eton


      Mr John Boules entereth his marke of hogs and Cattelh videlicet
    Cropt on boath Eares and slite on boath Eares and a littel peece
    taken out of the under part of the Right Eare

    Heugh ONeale Plantiue The Plantiue Aresting the defendant as [p. 223]
    William Heard Defendant Administrator to Samuell Parker in an
    action of the Case humbly requesteth an order of Court against the
    sayd heard for one thowsand pounds of tob: which hee endeauereth
    to proue dew by thes subsequent oaths

      Daniell Johnson sworne and examined in open Court sayeth that
    sum tim in the year of ow Lord 166o Samuell Parker did say lice
    had a heyfer at the hills which hee woold willingly giue Mis Vander
    duncke now wif unto the sayd Oneale for her paynes shee tooke with
    him and further sayeth not

      Ane Ges Sworne and examined in open Court sayeth that Mis
    ONeale braught Joane Parker sumthing in a Pot and sumthing in a
    paper and that shee gaue the sayd Jone parker a portion of that upon
    the poynt of a knife out of the Paper and when shee had giuen it
    her it did her littel good for the presant and towards night she cried
    out and sayd this woman hath giuen mee sumthing to mischief nice
    for I will neuer take any more of it for shee thaught it had poysoned
    her and shee further sayd if shee came with Andrew in the morning
    shee woold take no more of her and further sayeth that the sayd
    Oneal gaue her a glister next morning and it did not worke with her
    and none that shee gaue her did her any good at all in her iudgment
    and further sayeth not

      Mr Enock Doughtie Sworne and examined in open Court sayeth
    that on the twentith three day of Aprill last past this deponant was
    in William heards hows and Mr Lomax was thear and William Heard
    was wishing that hee had bin at Court and this deponant sayd hee
    shoold haue bine at the Court for thear was order giuen to haue him
    Arested and hee demanded what was the Account of this deponants
    Sister for Joane Parker and hee woohd Satisfie it but for Sams hee
    woold Pay nothing and this deponant Replyed it was four hundered
    pounds of tob: and hee sayd if it was four hundered pounds of tob hee