Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666. 45

     After all which the Board hauing heard & seen theire allegacons Liber FF
    on both sides, could not finde any Cause of Suite, whereupon the
    deft Craues a Nonsuite, which was granted these Charges
    following
        To 10 dayes attendance forl    tob
          2 wittnesses at 30 day                3
        Attorney Fee                   60
        Nonsuite                      300
                                      660

        Court adjournes till 9 of the Clock tomorrow morning
          All mett as yesterday being the 6th day of Aprill

     According to the foregoeing Ordr in fo: 220 That the Auditors [p. 2601
    of the Estate of Jn0 Bateman Escp doe Examine the Inuentory then
    deliuered into Cort the first formerly deliuered into the Sec-
    retarys Office, Came Thomas Truman John Morecroft and Thomas
    Mannyng the said Auditors and deliuers the same into Court by
    them examined & under theire hands Certifyed, as allsoe in writeinge
    theire Report which are both as followeth
     Wee whose names are hereunto Subscribed doe Certifye to the
    Honble Gouernor & Councell that in pursuance of a Commcon from
    the Prouinall Court to Us directed to Audite the Accompts of Mrs
    Mary Bateman Executrix of John Bateman Esq late of this Prou-
    ince decd: that wee haue accordingly seene perused and Examined
    the said accompt produced by the said Mary, And doe finde the
    disbursmts therein menconed to be by her made about the said Estate
    of which she Craueth allowance are Just and as wee humbly Con-
    ceiue ought to be allowed unto her, and doe finde that the said Mary
    hath paid in Debts & other disbursmth about the said Estate to the
    uallue of One hundred seauenty Fowre thowsand One hundred and
    Fourety pounds of tobaccoe, and that she hath receiued and stands
    Charged wth by Inuentory to the uallue of One hundred Fourty two
    Thowsand six hundred and six pounds of tob: and that she hath
    paid beyound Assetts the sume of Thirety One Thowsand Fiue hun-
    dred and thirety Foure pounds of tobaccoe and Caske In Testimony
    Whereof Wee haue sett to Our hands & seales this fifth day of Aprill
    in the yeare of Our Lord God 1666
                             Thomas Truman (seale)
                             John Morecroft (seale)
                             Thomas Mannyng (seale)

     A true & perfect Inventory of the Estate of John Bateman Esq [p. 261]
    late of this Province deco taken & appraised the twentyeth day of