Jurat  18  April  1654.  Coram  Nob:  William  Stone

Tho:  Hatton

The  Deposition  of  Cuthbt  ffenwick  Gent  aged  40  years
or  thereabouts  Sworne  and  Examined  Saith
That  being  the  Attorney  of  Tho:  Cornwallis  Esq  when  he
went  for  England   in   or  about  the  year   1643.   he  very -well


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knoweth  of  a  Note  or  Bill  under  the  hand  of  Argall  yardley  Esq  Liber  b.
for  the  paym'  of  i  200'  weight  of  Tob:  and  Caske  unto  1  homas
Cornwallis  Esq  or  his  Assigns  for  the  use  of  m'  John  Pile
which  was  left  in  the  hands  of  Cap'  William  Stone  now  Gov-
ernour  of  this  Province  to  receive  of  the  Said  Argall  Yardley
which  Said  Note  or  Bill  was  afterwards  returned  as  unpaid  by  p-  s"^"*
the  Said  William  Stone  to  this  Depon'  and  taken  from  him  by
Richard  Ingle  or  his  Associates  in  the  plundering  of  a  Pinnace
wherein  this  Depon'  was  then  goeing  to  Accomack  with  his
Clothes  and  divers  other  papers  Since  which  time  this  Depon'
demanded  the  Said  Tobacco  of  the  Said  Argall  Yardley  and
he  Confessed  the  debt  and  promised  this  Deponent  Satisfacon
in  Goods  at  the  arrivall  of  a  Dutch  Ship  which  he  then  Ex-
pected Whereupon  this  Depon'  delivered  the  Said  m'  Pile  his'
Bill  which  he  had  alsoe  in  his  Custody  for  Security  of  the  Said
debt  But  never  after  received  any  Satisfaction  of  the  Said
Argall  Yardley  for  the  Said  debt.  But  when  he  after  pressed
the  Said  Argall  Yardley  for  it  he  Answered  that  he  had  paid
it  to  m'  Pile,  And  gave  this  Depon'  a  Note  Under  his  hand  to
that  purpose,  which  the  Said  m'  Pile  Denyed  and  refused  to
Satisfie.
