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      Whearfor it is Ordered that the sayd Oneale shoold bee non- Liber A

     suited and pay the Cost and Charge of suit:
     The Court is Adiourned till eight of the Cloke in the morning
               on the ninth of July A0 1662

     At A Court held in Charheses Countie the 9th of July Ao 1662
                  Presentes
     Mr James Neahe Esq                 Mr Henry Addames
     Mr Francis Pope      Mr Joseph Harrison Mr William Marshall
               Commissioners

      Mr Francis Pope desireth that Mr Thomas Baker and Mr John
     Neuill might bane thear oaths giuen them Concerning the Considera
     tion of one thowsand pounds of tob: hee was to pay unto John Wil
     liams which is granted

      Mr Thomas Baker Sworne and Examined in open Court sayeth [p. 225]
     that bee was in Presance when Mr Francis Pope past a bill of one
     thowsand pounds of tob: unto John Wilhiams for and in Considera
     tion of his Care and troble of Looking after Joseph Lentons Wife
     after Joseph Lentons decease with the looking after the hogs and
     Cattehl and for the labor bee bestowed thearin and further sayeth not:

      Mr John Neuill Sworne and Examined in Open Court sayeth that
     bee was Presant when Mr Pope Past a bill unto John Williams for
     one thowsand pounds of tob: for and in Consideration of his Care
     and troble in looking after Joseph Lentons wife after the decease of
     the sayd Lenton and for his Care and paynes in Looking after the
     stoke of hogs and Cattelh and further sayeth not

     John Neuilh Plantiue     The Phantiue Aresting the defendant
     Mr Thomas Baker Defendant in an Action of Defamation prefereth
                        his Petition as fohloweth &c

      To the Worshipfull Commissioners of Charheses Countie the
     humbhe Petition of John Neuill Sheweth
      That Whearas your Petitioners Wife hath bin much defamed by
     Mr Thomas Bakers Slandering tounge in so grose a manner that if
     trew and with a probable desir spoken shee woold not bee a Creatur
     modest enough to keepe the brutalls of the forrest Companie and if
     spoken through ouermuch Joy of her safe deliuery of a Child it is a
     most Malicious and iniurious infamie Cast on her and altogeather
     unbeseeming so modest a man as bee by his place is bound (or at
     least to counterfet himself) to bee the Defamation your Petitioner
     will more at large make appear by the Oaths of his subpened Witneses