192Kent County Court Proceedings, 1656-1662.





         Liber B    apeale which the corte doth grante and doth order that the def: shall
               put in security for duble dameges to answer at the next proventiall
               Cort and that tho: suthen shall haue his Libertye giueinge me 1500lb
               of tab: security to apeare at the proventiall Cart and tell the said
               Cort haue time to produce his Euidence

                Tho: Snow aged 20 years or theare abouts sworne in Carte
                Saith that the day that tho: Dicks died he Came into the house and
               asked hime how he deed he tould hime he wase very bade and I sate
               upon the Chest by hime a lettell while and I asked hime whether or
               no he knew me he tould me he dide and a littell after he asked me to
               Reach hime a paire of stockings and I asked hime wt stockings he
               tould me a paire of stockings lyinge upon his Chest and in stead of
               the stockings I gaue hime his will which lay upon his Chest and he
               tould me it wase not them and he said theare is a womane in Lontt.
               that made of those stockings and then Mr hemslye desired me to put
               my hand to that will and he asked the said tho: whether or no he
               owned it to be his hand which he dide and I sett my hand to the will
               and farther saith not           Thomas Snow
               Teste Tobye Wells Clk
                Will: hemsly moueing in Corte tuching the will of Thomas Dickes
               decedent the Cort haueing not time to Examine the matter fully doth
               order that the said Will: hemsly shall take the Estate into his posi
               sion tell the next Carte only that Macume Meconny and he may se
               the Crope struck and sharde and an Inuentory with the will to be
               Exhibited unto the next Corte

                The Cart doth order that John Smith shall take into his Custody
               the Estate of John Stowell decedent and secure the same and take
               care that no part be spoyld or Imbasled and that the said John Smith
               shall haue sattifa for his payns in his Care and to giue the shrife a
               Just Inuentory to be Exhibited to the next Cort

         (fol. 81] The Cort doth order that Mathew Reade shall take into his Costody
               and Care the Estate of tho: Reade decedent and att the next Cort
               to Exhibit a Just Inuentory of all the said Estate and will if theare
               by any at the next Cort wher further order shall be taken thearin

                The Cort doth order that Ms Conner shall haue poure to posese hur
               selfe of the Estate of Mr Conner decedent hur late husband and to
               despose thearof in payment of debts according to law Exhibiting an
               Invoyce and puting in Securrity Mr Coursey and the shrife shall
               take the Inuentory as with theyre Consent is agreade

                W Jo: Coursey haueing a writt of atachment against the Estate
               of William Bagger in the hand of Nicklus Brodway he beinge non