XIV. Virginia Company Vs. Sir Henry Nevile, Sir George Huntleye,
William Hall, and Others. The Answer of Sir George Hunt-
ley to the Bill of Complaint
May 18, 1613
Chancery Proceedings, James I, Bundle U, No. 4/17
Document in Public Record Office, London
List of Records No. 25
The severall answere of Sr George Huntley knight one of the deffℯ to the
bill of Complaynt of the Treasorer and Company of the adventerers
and planters of the Cittie of London for the first Colony in Virgynia
Complaynantℯ
Jur̄ 18 Maii 1613 Mat Carew Saunders.
All advantage of exception to the vncertentie and insufficiencie of the said
bill of Complaint to this defendt being now and at all tymes hereafter
saved, he this said defendt for answere vnto such and so many of the
matters in the said bill conteyned as do any waie concerne him this
defendt to be answered vnto saith that he doth well remember that he
this said defendt hath hard divers speeches concerning adventures and
adventurers in and towardℯ the plantac̃on and supplie in the bill men-
c̃oned, and this defendt thinketh it to be true that he hath bene moved to
be an adventurer therein, but this defendt denieth that to his best knowl-
edge or remembrance he did ever assume or promise to disburse paie in
or delyver vnto the said Treasorer in or towardℯ the said adventures or
plantac̃on the som̄e of seventy fyve powndℯ as in and by the said bill
is supposed And this defendt likewise denieth that to his best knowledge
or remembrance he hath vnderwritten his name to any such assumpc̃on
or promise or in such booke or rolle as in the said bill is menc̃oned as an
adventurer towardℯ the said plantac̃on or supplie of the said Colony of
virginia as in and by the said bill is surmised wth out that that any other
matter or thing in the said bill conteyned matteriall or effectuall in the
law to be by this defendt answered vnto and not herein and hereby suffi-
ciently answered vnto confessed and avoided traversed or denied is true
(to the knowledge of this deft) All wch matters this defendt is & will be
redye to averre and p̳ue as this honorable Court shall award and humbly
praieth to be dismissed owt of this honorable court wth his costℯ & chargℯ
in this behalf susteyned
B Colon: Virg: ḡ
vers.
Huntley
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