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       aboard the Ship called the Reformation whereof was then Liber B.

       Master one Richard Ingle riding in the River of Thames

       London Certain English goods, which Thos Clerk the party

       that delivered the goods to the Depont affirmed them to the

       Depont to be to the value of ten pounds ten Shillings Sterl laid

       out in England in ready money by him the Said Thomas Clark

       for them, and which this Depont veryly believeth Cost that rate,

       but this Depont Knoweth not whether the freight of the said

       goods was reckoned into the said Charge or not.

         Touching the Same And also that the Commander and p. 225

       Commissioners at Kent doe cause the Said Zephaniah Smith

       to bring into the Court there A Petition by him preferred to

       the Provincial Court there on his own behalfe wherein the

       Court att Annarundel is by him taxed with Injustice, that a

       true Coppy thereof may be taken to be made use of by the

       Provinciall court if occasion Shall require.

       Cuthbert ffenwick plt Upon perusal of an Order Made in this

       John Nunn Defdt Cause the 20th day of March last and

       another for renewing of the Same 21th of June last and upon

       Oath made by Mr Gwyther the high Sherriff that he gave the

       Defdt notice of the Said Order Since the Last Court and the

       Defdt nor any for him yet appearing to make any Answer in

       the business, It is Ordered according to the Said former Order

       that the Deft Shall pay unto the plt or his Assigne two hun-

       dred four Score and five pounds of Merchantable Tobacco and

       Cask which was payable by bill to the plt the tenth day of

       November 1647.

         Proofes produced by John Merriday Shipwright this Court

       for the vacateing of a bond by him entred to Thomas Hales

       and Roger Pollin the 14th of July last viz

         The Deposition of Richard Pinner of the Colony of Virginia

       Marriner aged about 36 years Sworn & examined the last

       day of July 1651. Saith

         That about November last he being aboard a Vessell in the

       bay of Chesapeak in Virginea between Pyankatanck and Rap-

       pahannock called the Ann, there was then and there lost from

       the Sterne of the Said Vessell a Small boat of about 10 or 12

       foot by the Keele which had been borrowed of John Merriday

       Boatwright, And this Deponent further deposeth that upon

       serious view of a boat upon Monday last which the Said John

       Merriday Shewed unto him telling him he had taken the Same p. 226

       out of The possession of Thomas Hales and Roger Pollin and

       had entred bond to prove the Same to be his, he this Depont

       found and knoweth it to be the Same boat which was Soe lost

       from the Stern of the said Vessell before menconed.