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      the third part of all the goods and Chattells of the said William at the Liber JJ
      tyme of his decease after debts paid, whereupon the said Justices
      then Ordered that a supersedeas should issue forth of this Court
      directed to the Comissioners and Sheriff of the said County of Som-
      ersett to require them to desist and supersede from any further prose-
      cution of the said Ellinor in any wise whatsoever for or concerning
      the estate of the said William Bosman and that the Overseers named
      in the Will or any other that may in any wise be concerned therein
      have day here till the twelfth day of April next being the first day of
      the next provincialll Court to shew cause why the said Ellinor should
      not have the third part of the said estate to her to be allotted as her
      part and portion of her said Husbands estate, Whereupon it was
      required the said Comissioners and Sheriff that they and every of
      them doe from prosecuteing judging condemning executeing and
      imprisoning of the said Ellinor for any matter or cause concerning
      the estate of the said William altogether cease and supersede And the
      sheriff is also comanded to sumon all and every the Overseers of the
      said Will and all others the claimers of any thing by the said Will
      that they and every of them be and appeare before the justices here
      the same twelfth day of April aforesaid to shew cause if any they
      can why the said Ellinor should not have the third part of the estate
      of the said William as aforesaid and to stand to and abide &c.
       And afterwards to witt at the Provinciall Court holden the fiftenth
      day of the same month of April in the yeare aforesaid it was Ordered
      by the Court here that the said Ellinor Keene (after debts paid)
      have the One third part of the estate of the said William Bosman and
      that the Legatees abate every One p rato.

      Marke Cordea agft John Nutthall of the County of st Maries Gent
      John Nutthall otherwise called John Nutthall of the County of
      st Maries in the Province of Maryland Gent was sumoned to answer
      unto Mark Cordea in a plea that he render unto him sixty thousand
      pounds of tobacco which he oweth and unjustly deteineth &c.
       And whereupon the said Marke by Robert Carvile his Attorny
      saith that whereas the said John upon the two and twentith day of
      march in the thirty seaventh yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c
      Annoq Dom One thousand six hundred sixty eight by his certaine
      writeing Obligatory sealed with the seale of the said John and by the
      said Marke here in Court brought whose date is the day and yeare
      abovesaid did grant himselfe to be holden and firmly bound unto the
      said Marke in the full summe or quantity of sixty thousand pounds
      of good sound merchantable tobacco in caske to be paid to the said
      Marke Cordea or to his certaine Attorny his executors administrators
      or assignes when thereunto required to the which payment well and
      truly to be made the said John did bind himselfe his heirs executors
      and administrators in the whole and for the whole firmly by the said [p. 76]