i8  Chancery Court Proceedings, 1669-70.




         LiberCDTuesday the 21.st day of December 1669.
                    Present as before

               Samuel Stone pl.t Walter Lane defend.t
                 Carleton for the defendant moves for a fortnights Longer time
               to answer the plantiffs Bill Whereupon the Attorneys for the pl.t
             moved the Court for Costs for the defendant so long delay the Bill
          (fol. 14) being filed 15 :th November and the defendant then appeared and
               yet no answer whereupon it is ordered that the said parties do attend
               the Honble the Chancellour upon the 4:th day of January next and
               then the defend.t is to putt in his answer and to pay unto the
               plantiff forty Shillings Cost

               Clifton & Green Hambleton Affidavit
                 The Deposition of William Hambleton aged 33 years or there
               abouts Sworn and Examined before Henry Coursey Esq Saith that
               in the year 1657 or thereabouts the deponant lived at Capt. Giles
               Brents in potomack River dureing the time of Nine or Ten Months
               or thereabouts to the best of your deponants knowledge and during
               the time of your deponants abode there there lived one William
               Green a Carpenter and his wife which Green did hire himself to
               Capt Brent some certain time how long your deponant knoweth not
               but presently before he was hired to Capt Brent or presently after
               the said Greene lived at a house of his own near unto Capt Brent
               upon a peice of Land which Capt Brent had either lett him or sold
               him it happened so that to the best of your deponants knowledge
               that the said William Greene did kill a Barrow Hogg belonging to
               Capt. Giles Brent as he himself did confess to the best of your
               deponants knowledge and so it was that a small time after he had
               killed the Hogg the said Green came to Capt Brent and desired him
               not to trouble him and he would make him honest payment for the
               Hogg this discourse your Deponant did not at that time hear but
               your deponant to the best of his knowledge did hear the
               agreement Capt Brent and William Green
               your deponant    well remember this is true to the best of
               your De knowledge and remembrance and further saith
               not W.m Hamble

               This was Sworn before me this
              d   Henry Coursey
                 22 day of December 1669

                 There being some Controversy between James Clifton of Stafford
               County in the Collony of Virginia Gent, and William Greene to
               which the said Affidavit had relation The Honble the Chancellor
               did at the request of the said M.r Clifton cause the Tenour of the
               Record of the said affidavit to be made known under his hand &
               the lesser Seal of this province thereto affixed the 4.th day of Jan
               uary in the 38th of Caecilius