Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.     89

    of a Certaine Instrumt of Release bearing euen date Wth these prsents Liber FF
    whereby the said Marmaduke Snow Assigne of Edith Snow, Assigne
    of Abel Snow hath Released to him the said Thomas Gerrard all
    manner of debts due upon Certaine Recognizances Entred into by
    the said Thomas Gerrard to Abel Snow and by him Assigned to
    Edith Snow his mother wth a deed of Guift of all his Goods and
    Debts whatsoeuer and by the said Edith Assigned to the said Marma-
    duke Snow as by the said Release more at large doth Appeare, Now
    the said Thomas Gerrard, for himself e his heires Executors & Admrs
    doth Couenant promise and Grant to and the said Marmaduke
    Snow his Executors Administrators & euery of them, That he the
    said Thomas Gerrard his Executors & Administrators shall and will
    secure and saue Harmless the said Marmaduke Snow of and from all
    And seuerall the debts or demands that are demanded and made of
    him by all or any of the persons whose names together wth the debts
    are menconed and perticulerly exprest in a Certaine Schedule in-
    dented and annext to these prsents, and subscribed wth both and seu-
    erall theire Respectiue hands, And ailso shall pay or Cause to be paid
    unto the said Marmaduke Snow yearly & euery yeare during his
    Naturall life the suffle of six thowsand pounds of tobacco & Caske
    yearely to be paid in some Conuenient place or places in st Clements
    Manno' in Wiccocomoco riuer att or uppon the 10th day of Nouem-
    ber, And the first paymt to beginn the 10th day of Nouembr next, And
    also shall wthin 40 dayes next ensueing the date of these prsents
    deliuer unto the said Marmaduke Snow a good horse wth bridle and
    saddle to be to him the sd Marmaduke Snow as his owne proper
    Goods & Chattles and to his sole and proper use and behoofe, And
    further that the said Thomas Gerrard shall not sue implead molest
    or trouble the said Marmaduke Snow for any matter Cause or thing
    whatsoeuer heretofore had done or Committed from the beginning
    of the World to this prsent day, And the said Marmaduke Snow for [p. 338]
    himselfe his Executors and Administrators doth hereby Couenant
    promise and Grant to and wth the said Thomas Gerrard his Executors
    & Administratr that if he the said Marmaduke Snow shall at any
    time be impleaded or sued by the said partyes menconed in the said
    Schedule for any of the debts that the said Marmaduke Snow shall
    not Confess any Judgmt for the same but shall giue notice to the
    said Thomas Gerrard or his Attorney that they defend the same
    Wittnes John Morecroft Tho: Gerrard (seald)
          Robt Slye
      Benja Rozer            Recorded at the Instance of
                             both partyes   X Mee

                                       Daniel Jenifer

      More added in the foregoeing Indenture in another paper annext
    thereto (uizt)