Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.

    one thousand weight of sweet sented tobacco all in good caske Liber FF
    whereof and equall porcon to be of the first and Second striking and
    soe proportionably of the first and second striking for a greater
    Quantity to be planted on the said Plantacon to be delivered yearely
    att the usuall Season upon the said Plantacon in Cask And the said
    Job Nutt for himselfe his heires Executors and assignes doth Cove-
    nant grant and agree to and wth the said William Groome his Ex-
    ecutors and and assignes by theis pnts that the said Job Nutt or his
    assignes shall and will furnish and Supply the said plantacon wth
    five able men servants of the age of seventeene yeares and upwards
    for the use of the said William Groome And if and as often as any
    of thc 3aid fivt servants shall dye or be dismissed with others in their
    Roome from the said service by the Order of the said Job Nutt that
    then the said Job Nutt or his assignes shall and will supply such
    of them as shall soe dye or be dmissed with others in their Roome
    from tyme to tyme during the said terme And that the said Job
    Nutt his Executors or assignes shall and will yearly Prvide furnish
    and send unto the said William Groome by some good shipp or shipps [p. 284]
    good and sufficient cloth stockins shooes and other nessaryes of
    Apparell to the cleere yearly value of forty pounds sterling as the
    same shall cost in London towards the mayteynance of the said Ser-
    vants during the said terme Provided allwaies and it is agreed be-
    tweene the said parties to theis pnts that if any of the said Five
    servants shall dye or depart this life in any yeare before the tenth of
    June during the said terme that then the said Job Nutt shall rebate
    and allow out of the said yearly rent of twelue thousand weight of
    Ordinary tobacco one thousand weight of tobacco for eüy such ser-
    vant soe dyeing before the said tenth of June And that itt shall and
    may be law full to and for the said William Groome and his assignes
    to defalke and deduct the same out of the said Rent from tyme to
    tyme accordingly any thing in these presents to the Contrary thereof
    Nottwithstanding And the said William Groome for himselfe his
    Executors Administrators and assignes doth Covenant grant and
    agree to and with the said Job Nutt his heires Executors and as-
    signes by theis pnts that the said William Groome his Executors
    Administrators or assignes shall and will pay or cause to be paid
    unto the said Job Nutt his heires Executors or assignes the said
    yearly rent or rents of twelue thousand weight of good ordinary
    tobacco cleere of grounds leaves & seconds and one thousand weight [p. 285]
    of sweet sented all in cask att the dayes and tymes and in manner
    upon the said plantacon as aforesaid during the said terme And the
    said Wili2m Groome his Executors and assignes shall and will att
    his and their proper costs and charges well and sufficiently repaire
    maynteyne susteyne amend & keepe all and eüy the houses Store
    houses Edifices Fences bounds of and belonging to the said plantacon
    And with all and all manner of needfull and necessary reparacons
    and amendments during the said terme And the said Plantacon houses