Provincial Court Proceedings, 1667—68.    249

       That sometime in the yeare of Our Lord anno One thowsand Six Liber FF
     hundred thirety Eight or thereabout being then Seruant to the Rt
     Honble the Lord Propr of this Prouince and then under the Comand
     of Leonard Caluert Escp Leiutennt Generall of the said Prouince went
     wth the said Leiutennt Generall wth a party of men to reduce the
     Island of Kent undr the Gouernmt of his said Lopp being then in
     actuall rebellion the said Gouernor att that time Caused One Thomas
     Smyth to be put to death One of the Inhabitants of the said Island
     and that after he was executed the said Gouernor caused this deponant
     to make Seizure of his Estate for the use of the Lord Proprietary
     which was accordingly done but within few dayes after the said
     Gouernor Comanded this Depont to deliuer the aforesaid Estate unto
     Jane Smyth the Relict the Relict of the said Thomas Smyth into her
     possession for the proper use of two young female Children of the
     aforesaid Thomas Smyth and further this depont saith not

       The plts Attorny then demanded wether or noe it was within the
     power of the then Gouernor to dispose of and giue away to the said
     Relict any land or Estate which is once forfeited and seized to the
     Lord Propr as this land now in dispute and then possessed by the
     aforesaid Thomas Smyth father to the said Gutrud one of these
     plts wthout speciall Ordr or warrt from undr the hand and Seale of the
     said Lord Proprietary
       To which the Court answered that if it were not wthin the power
     of the said Leonard Caluert Esq to giue away the same, it then
     remaines yet forfeited to his said Lordp by the Rebellion of the sd
     Smyth except the said John Woollcott cann proue the title of the said
     John Gresham to bee good unto the said land who likewise forfeited
     it for his Rebellion to the said Lord Propr as was alleadg'd to his said [p. 551]
     lordp which was the grounds for his passing the same to the a fore-
     said Francis Brook by his said speciall warrt as also by his Grant in
     Confirmacon thereof under the Great Seale of this Prouince
       The defendt then Crau'd time untill next Prouinall Court to proue
     John Greshams title good to the said land which was granted him,
     and in the interim the said John Woollcott to haue the use of what
     Goods and Chattles of his was taken by the sherriffe on the said
     land to reseize the same
       Ordered the Assise be discharg'd from Court

     John Edmundson plaintiff The plt sues the defendt as Admr of the
     Timo Guddrige the Admr of Goods and Chattles of George Richard
       Geo: Richardson defendt son deceased in a plea that hee render
     Jenifer p quer unto him Six thowsand three hundred
     pounds of tobacco which he unjustly detaines from him—The de-
     fendt came into Court and in proper persoii as Administr aforesaid
     Confesseth Judgmt for the aforesaid sume of Six thowsand three
     hundred pounds of tobacco to the plt