548    Court and Testamentary Business, 1649—50.

             Liber A. Georg Manners this day acknowledgeth a Judgmt to John

                   Half head for sixe hundred and thirty pounds of Tob: & Caske.

                    Mrs Katheren Hebden moved the Court this day to haue her

                   Administracon of her deceased Husbands Estate confirmed to

                   her by Order of Court and pduced her Witnesses whose Testi

                   monies are as followeth viz:

                    William Boreman this day sworne and examined in Court

                   vppon his oath saith That hee was prsent when Mr Thomas

                   Hebden deceased declared in writing a certaine deed to vses

                   bearing date the 3th of June last (as hee taketh it) being (as

                   hee conceives) the writing nowe shewed vnto him, wherevnto

                   this deponts Marke is subscribed as a Witnes And this depont

                   then sawe the said Mr Hebden deliver to Mrs Hebden his then

                   wife a ifiagon Pott with direccon that shee should deliver the

                   same to Mr Pile another of the Witnesses to the said deed in

                   part of the whole Estate made over by the said deed.

                    William Marshall this day sworne & examined in open Court

                   vppon his Oath saith. That about a moneth or three weekes

                   before Mr Tho: Hebdens decease late of this Province bee

                   being at the House of the said Mr Hebden, hee there heard

                   Mrs Hebden wife to the said Mr Hebden complaine to her

                   Husband for that hee had made away the Estate wch bee had

                   with her, and of his vnkindnes to her therein. Wherevppon

                   the said Mr Hebden replyed, Bee contented for that Will wch

                   John Hatch made shall stand, And further said goe to M'

                   Cawseenes and fetch the deed of Guift or writing wch they

                   haue there, and it shalbe burned or to that effect. And this

                   depont then accompanied the said Mrs Hebden part of her way

                   to the said Cawseenes House.

                    But the Court being moved on the behaulf of the Trustees

                   that the further hearing of the cause might bee referred till the

                   Mr Piles deposicon of Mr John Pille were taken in the busines.

                   deposicon It is therevppon Ordered that the determinacon there

                   vide fol 300 of bee respited till the next Court And the Admin

                   istratrix in the meane time is not to imbesill alien or dispose

                   the said Estate or any part thereof (saving for her owne neces

                   sary vse and her ffamily. And both the Administratrix and

                   Trustees are then to appeare pemptorily and make theire

                   proofes without any further warrant or sumons

                    Mr Robert Clarke this day acknowledged in open Court that

                   bee oweth to Skipper Jacob derrickson fourteene hundred

                   pounds of Tob. in Caske

                    5o Marcij 1650 Execuc p 400 l Tob & Caske ad satisfaciend