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     leafe tob: and Caske to bee payd at one intier payment in sum Liber B
     Conuenient Place in Charleses County as witnes this my hand t13th day of August Ao 1663 upon all demands: Hen Hudson

     Witnes Henry Addames
          George Thompson
       For which the defendant Confeseth a iudgment

       Edmond Lendsey Confeseth iudgment in open Court for the pres
     ent payment of 2040 lb of tobaco unto Mis Margerie batten Adminis
     tratrix to William batten it is thearfor ordered tht hee pay as aforsd
     the sd sum

     Henry Hudson Plantiue The Plantiue aresting the defendant
     John Cain defendant by in an action of the Case The defen
 his Atturney William Price   dant Craueth an Appeale to the Pro
                         uinciall Court: which was granted:

       John helmes Presenteth this ensuing Petition
       To the Worshipfull Commissioners of Charleses County the
     humble Petition of John helme Sheweth
       That Whearas your Petitioner was bound in England to sarue Mr
     John Meekes in th way of Chirurgery and to find and allow your
     petitioner meat drinck apparrell and Lodging according to the usuall
     Custom in England your Petitioner hath seuerall times demanded
     Cloath of the said Meekes but will not giue your petitioner any but
     threatens your Petitioner that when hee hath Receaued his tob:
     which is dew to him in the Contry that your petitioner might goe
     whether hee woold and bee damned your Petitioner hauing but one
     shirt which is at Presant on his back Besids the Rest of his apparrell [p. 223]
     very baer and thin for the time of year and your petitioner intreats
     your worships to iudge playnly wheather it bee apparrell sutable for
     prentises of that imployment Thearfor your Petitioner humbly
     Craueth tht yr worships will bee pleased to take his sad Condition
     into yr serious Considerations beeing in a strang Cuntry and destitute
     of frinds that you woold bee pleased to order Mr John Meekes to
     find and allow your Petitioner Cloathing sufficient or to set mee
     free in Court whearby your petitioner may prouid for himself befor
     hee is quit naked and the time of yeare to fare spent for to get iniploy
     ment and your petitioner shall as in dutie bound Pray &c
       The Commissioners taking it into thear serious Considerations
     doe order that Mr John Meekes shall Cloath the sayd helmes from top
     to toe fit for a Prentis

     John Tomkinson Plantiue The Plantiue aresting the defen
     Abraham Rows as the Atturney dant in an action of debt by his
 of John Lumbrozo Defendantj  Atturney Mr Francis Prefereth his
                          Petition as followeth