14     Court and Testamentary Business, 1637.

  Liber Z.    themselves their heires exequutors & admrators, that the said

                  summe of two thousand foure hundred weight of tobacco be

                  levied vpon their lands goods & chattells wheresoever they

                  shalbe found.

                                       IC the mrke of James Cauther

                  Recogn. by James Cauther eod: die

                      coram me John Lewger

                                     the mrke of TP Thomas Pasmore

                  Recogn. by Thomas Pasmore; 7th April 1638

                       coram me John Lewger

                  march 20. 1638.

                    this Recognisance is discharged by the said Thomas Corn

        p.  31 waleys at a Court holden at St maries, the 2th of ffebruary;

                  before the Governor and Counsell mr Thomas Cornwaleys

                  exequutr of the last will and testrnt of mr John Saunders gent:

                  deceased exhibited to the Court, the Inventory of the goods of

                  the said John Saunders at the time of his death and was

                  allowed for a true Inventory.

                    Likewise the same Thomas Cornwaleys exhibited to the

                  Court an accompt of the administration of the estate of the

                  said John Saunders; and gave in severall discharges vnder

                  the hands of Richard Gerrard, Thomas white, & Roger walton

                  And Jerome Hawley Esq came & shewed an assignment of

                  the legacie of the said Valentine Saunders Vnto him the said

                  Jerome Hawley wth power to give discharge &c. and demaunded

                  of the said Thomas Cornwaleys an accompt of the said John

                  Saunders his stock in the trade & the proceed thereof and of

                  the eight part in the pinace dove with the profitt thereof due

                  to the said John Saunders; and the said Tho: Cornwaleys

                  brought in his accompt; by wch it appeared that the said

                  Thomas Cornwaleys had received of the proceed of both the

                  stocks of the trade, and the pinace one hundred and eleven

                  pound & one halfe of beaver, and nine pound one shilling in

                  mony; & that he had disbursed for the vse & vpon the accompt

                  of the said valentine Saunders, one hundred twenty eight

                  pound three quarters of beaver, and nine pound ten shillings

                  in mony and the said Jerome Hawley could not except against

                  the said accompt. wherevpon the Court ordered in pfice of the

                  said Jerome Hawley that the said Thomas Cornwaleys should

                  be discharged agst the said Jerome Hawley valentine Saunders

                  or either of them, for the said legacie.

                    And vpon the further motion of the said Thomas Cornwaleys,

                  the Court likewise adiudged that he should be discharged

                  against the said Richard Gerard Thomas white & Roger

                  walton.