Kent County Court Proceedings, 1656-1662.   91

   tim bee was Clark of the sd Courtt in entring uppon this Record Liber B
   that the sd Read by these deposissions should Call himselfe Knaue,
   but the Courtt finding by an order grounded uppon the sd Oaths
   that the sd Hynson hath not notouriously Injured the sd Read, but
   only by negleckt of the sd Hynson who hath acknowliged that itt
   was his error & neggleckt in not fully expresing in the sd oaths that
   these words & the                           South att his owne howse Called the sd Read
   Knaue & sd bee would proue itt wch was the full truth of the sd Oaths
   as aforesd
   8 Moneth 11th 1656                           [fol. 10] (*)
    This day Robert Martin & Henery Ashley did both of them Ac-
   knowledge in Court, this to bee theire act & deed which heareafter
   followeth
    Artickles of Agneemt made & held this 11th of Octobt 1656, be-
   tween Robert Martine on the one ptie & Henery Ashley on the other
   ptie in manner & fomme as followeth; ffinst it is agreed between the
   aboue named pties, That wee doe firmly by theese ptsents bynd our
   selues in the forfeture of flue thousand pounds of good tobacc° &
   Caske to hould & Continnue in an equal Copartnershipe, in all the
   stocke of Cattell hoggs & Land, Crops of Tobacc° & Corne, only
   the sd Robert Martin resseruinge to himyselfe three Cowes for my
   three Children, and at the end of the sd three yeares, if the aboue
   named pties doe Joyntly agree to breack of theire Copartnershipe,
   tht then theare shall bee an equall diuission of theire estates, of Cat-
   tell hoggs Land & Cropps, or if otherwise both pties bee agreed,
   theire Copartnenshipe may Continue soc longe as the agree upon,
   and for the true pformance heareof wee the aboue named pties haue
   enterchangeably sett Or hands this 11th day of Octobr 16Wittnes Tho: South             Rob Mar R tam his mark
        John   Dabes his mark    Hen: Ashly

    Know all men by theese ptsents tht I Capt Rob Vaughan of the
   Isle of Kent, haue & doe, acknowledge to haue bartered, sould, &
   made sall of, one broune bull, about three yeares ould, with a swallow
   taill on the Right care, & underkeeld on the left care, with a barren
   Cow, & a heifer, off the same mark, unto Jn° Salter, which afforesd
   Chattell, with theire Increase, & I the afforesd Vaughan doth by theese
   prsents acknowledge a free & firme salle, by mee, & from my heires
   execut Admins and Assignes, foreuer, unto the sd Salter, his heires,
   executors Admiñ, or Assignes foreuer, to haue & to hould, keepe
   possesse & Inioy, peaceably as his owne pp goodes, in wittnes wheareof
   I haue heareunto sett my hand this 3th Octobt 1656
   Test Marke Benson               Robt Vaughan
      Peter Parker

    * These entries of early date on folios 10-13 are by the hand of Clerk Thomas
   Hill, whose official service ended in November, 1656.