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    sayd Price sixteen hundered pounds of tob: to shirts and one paer of Liber B
    shooes according to the best of this deponants remembarance and
    further sayeth not

      Whearupon the defendant desireth that Mr humpherie haggate my
    bee sworne to testifle his knowledge of the Plantiue as ye was at the
    defendants hows which was granted

      Mr humphery haggate sworne and examined in open Court sayeth
    that when the plantiue was at the defendants hows when this deponant
    saw him hee was by reason of a sore lege that hee had so tame that
    hee was altogether uncapable of any buisnes and that hee thaught in
    his Conscience the defendant did very well by him in not Chargeing
    him any thing for his troble and diete and further sayeth not

      It is thearfor ordered that the Plantiue shoold bee nonsuited and
    pay the Cost and Charge of suit:
    Samuell Dobson Plantiue  The Plantiue aresting the defen
    James Lee Defendant as   Fdant in an action debt prefereth
      Administrator to John delahayj his petition as followeth

      To the Worshipfull Commissioners of Charleses Countie the
    humble petition of Samuell Dobson humbly Sheweth
      That James Lee administrator to John delahay standeth indebted
    unto your petitioner the sum of four hundered forty eight pounds of
    tobacco and Caske as by assignment of specialtie from under Thomas
    Gerrard Esp unto Thomas Garuice and from the assignement of
    Thomas Jaruice to your petitioner your Petitioner Can make appeare
      Your Petitioner humbly Craueth order of this worshipfull board
    that James Lee shall make payment of this four hundered and forty
    eight pounds of tobacco and Caske Unto your Petitioner and your [p. 55]
    Petitioner shall humbly Pray &c

      And for Confirmation of the sayd Petition the Plantiue Produceth
    the bill as followeth
      This bill bindeth mee John delahay my heirs Executors Adminis
    trators or Assignes to pay unto Thomas Gerrard Escp or Assignes
    four hundered fortie eight pounds of tobacco and Caske according to
    the act of Assembly at the tenth of Nouember next at the now dwell
    ing hows of James Lee in Nangemi witnes my hand this 19th of
    August 1658             John Z Delahay
    Test Thomas Lomax          his marke
        James L Lee his marke

    Endossed on the backe of the sayd bill as followeth
      Memorandum that I Thomas Gerrard haue assigned all my Right
    and title of this bill within written to Thomas Jaruice 28th Decem
    ber 1659                           Tho Gerard