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     diction of this bill of sayle unto John Cain his heirs Executors Ad- LiberB
     ministrators or Assignes foreuer as witnes this my hand and seale
     this 10th of June Ao 1663 John Greenehill 0
     Witnes George Thompson his marke & sea!e
           John Masticke

       Edward Ming desired that this ensuing Condition might bee Re- [p. 276]
     corded which is as followeth (Viz)
       Articles of Agreement between Francis Batchelor of the one Party
     and Edward Ming of the other Party Witnes
       Know all men by thees Presents that I Edward Ming doe bargaine
     and hyer my self in any saruice and imployment that the sayd francis
     Batchelor or his assigns shall from time to time imploy him for the
     Consideration of fourteen hundered and fifty pounds of tobacco and
     Caske and too barrells of Indian Corne that is to say to bee payd the
     sayd Edward at or upon the last day of October 1663 and further
     the sayd Edward doth promise to use his law full endeauours from the
     daet hearof untill the last of October 1663 for that Valewable Con-
     sideration as witnes owr hands this 3d day of february 1662
Test Thomas T Wackfeeld       fran: Batchelor
             his marke        Edward E M Mings marke
         William + Wennam
             his marke

       I Under right and Promis to pay to Edmond Lendsey flue hun-
     dered and fifty pounds of tobacco and Caske and this Condition is
     voyd the tobacco to bee payd upon demand as witnes my hand this
      of Nouember 1663
     the word hundred was interlined before signed Fran: Batcheler
     Test Thomas Atkinson
         Richard fouke

       Mr Zachery Waed desireth that Mr Mathias Worgan and Mr [p. 277]
     Edward Richardson might haue thear oaths giuen them Concerning
     a certaine Quantitie of tobacco which hee pro fered unto Mr John
     Cherman and hee refused the same as not Marchantable

       Mr Mathias Worgan Sworne and Examined in open Court sayeth
     that in february one thowsand six hundered sixty three Mr Zachery
     Waed tendered to Mr John Cherman A Quantity of tobacco which he
     refused to reseaue and after his Refusall I the sayd Mathias Worgan
     Pro fered him the sayd Cherman three halfe pence per pound for it
     which hee refused and afterwards I Receaued of the sayd tobacco to
     the Quantitie of Eleuen hundered and ode pounds of tobacco and
     further sayeth not
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