EXHIBIT 10.1

[inTEST LETTERHEAD]



April 17, 2001
Mr. Robert E. Matthiessen
c/o inTEST Corporation
7 Esterbrook Drive
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
	RE:	CHANGE OF CONTROL AGREEMENTDear Bob:
		The Board of Directors believes that it is in the best interests of inTEST Corporation, a Delaware corporation ("inTEST"), and its shareholders to make the commitments set forth in this letter to you regarding your future employment with inTEST.
As a result, the Board hereby offers to you the additional benefits described below. If you desire to accept the benefits described below, you must sign the extra copy of this Change of Control Agreement (the "Agreement") which is enclosed and return it
to me on or before April 30, 2001.

1. TERM OF AGREEMENT
2. TERMINATION COMPENSATION
3. TERMINATION BENEFITS DEFINED
4. For a period of one year from your termination (the "Benefit Period"), payment of your base salary on the same basis that you were paid immediately prior to your termination;
5. Payment of any bonus you would otherwise be eligible to receive for the year in which your termination occurs and for that portion of the following year which is included in the Benefit Period, such bonus to be calculated and paid as provided below; an
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6. Continuation during the Benefit Period of all fringe benefits that you were receiving immediately prior to your termination, including, without limitation, life, disability, accident and group health insurance benefits coverage for you and your
immediate family ("Fringe Benefits"), such Fringe Benefits to be provided on substantially the same terms and conditions as they were provided immediately prior to your termination.
7. CHANGE OF CONTROL DEFINED
8. The date the stockholders of inTEST (or the Board of Directors, if stockholder action is not required) approve a plan or other arrangement pursuant to which inTEST will be dissolved or liquidated;
9. The date the stockholders of inTEST (or the Board of Directors, if stockholder action is not required) approve a definitive agreement to sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the assets of inTEST to any "Unrelated Person" or
"Unrelated Persons" (as defined below) acting in concert with one another. "Person" means any entity, person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act of 1934. "Unrelated Person" means any Person other than
(1) inTEST or any of its Affiliates or any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by inTEST or any of its Affiliates or (2) any Person who, on the date of this Agreement is the beneficial owner of at least twenty percent (20%) of
the outstanding Common Stock of inTEST. "Affiliates" means any corporation or other business organization in which inTEST owns, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the voting stock or capital;
10. The date the stockholders of inTEST (or the Board of Directors, if stockholder action is not required) and the stockholders of the other constituent corporation (or its board of directors if stockholder action is not required) have approved a
definitive agreement to merge or consolidate inTEST with or into such other corporation, and such other corporation is an Unrelated Person, other than a merger or consolidation of inTEST in which holders of shares of the Common Stock of inTEST immediately
prior to the merger or consolidation will hold at least a majority of the ownership of common stock of the surviving corporation (and, if one class of common stock is not the only class of voting securities entitled to vote on the election of directors of
the surviving corporation, a majority of the voting power of the surviving corporation's voting securities) immediately after the merger or consolidation, which common stock (and, if applicable, voting securities) is to be held in substantially the same
proportion as such holders' ownership of the Common Stock of inTEST immediately before the merger or consolidation;
11. The date any Unrelated Person will have become the beneficial owner of, or will have obtained voting control over, more than forty percent (40%) of the outstanding shares of the Common Stock of inTEST; or
12. The date individuals who, as of the date of this Agreement, constitute the Board of Directors of inTEST (the "Incumbent Directors") cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the members of the Board; provided that any individual who
becomes a director after the date of this Agreement whose election or nomination for election by the Company's shareholders was approved by a majority of the Incumbent Directors (other than an election or nomination of an individual whose initial
assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened "election contest" relating to the election of the directors of the Company (as such terms are used in Rule 14a-11 under the Exchange Act), "tender offer" (as such term is used in Section
14(d) 0f the Exchange Act) or a proposed Merger (as defined below)) will be deemed to be an Incumbent Director.
13. GOOD REASON DEFINED
14. any material adverse change in your status, responsibilities or Fringe Benefits;
15. any failure to nominate or elect you as Chief Executive Officer of the Company or as member of the Board;
16. causing or requiring you to report to anyone other than the Board;
17. assignment to you of duties materially inconsistent with your position as Chief Executive Officer;
18. any reduction of your annual base salary or annual bonus (or, if applicable, a change in the formula for determining your annual bonus which would have the effect of reducing your annual bonus as it would otherwise have been calculated immediately
prior to the Change of Control that gives rise to your right to receive Termination Benefits as provided in this Agreement) or other reduction in compensation or benefits, or
19. requiring you to be principally based at any office or location more than 30 miles from the current offices of the Company in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
20. CAUSE DEFINED
21. Your conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction of any criminal offense involving dishonesty or breach of trust or any felony or crime of moral turpitude;
22. Your commission of an act of fraud upon the Company; or
23. Your willful refusal to perform the duties reasonably assigned to you by the Board of Directors of the Company, which failure or breach continues for more than ten days (or such longer period, not in excess of 30 days, as may be required to cure such
failure) after written notice thereof is given to you.
24. CEILING ON BENEFITS
25. TERMINATION NOTICE AND PROCEDURE
26. The Notice of Termination will indicate the specific termination provision in this Agreement relied upon, if applicable, and will set forth in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances alleged to provide a basis for such termination.
27. Any Notice of Termination by inTEST will be in writing signed by the Chairman of the Board of inTEST.
28. If inTEST furnishes you with a Notice of Termination or if you furnish inTEST with a Notice of Termination, and no good faith dispute exists regarding such termination, then the date of your termination will be the date such Notice of Termination is
deemed given pursuant to Section 11 of this Agreement.
29. If inTEST in good faith furnishes you with a Notice of Termination for Cause and you in good faith notify inTEST that a dispute exists concerning such termination within the 15-day period following your receipt of such notice, you may elect to
continue your employment during such dispute. If it is thereafter determined that (i) Cause did exist, the date of your termination will be the earlier of (A) the date on which the dispute is finally determined or (B) the date of your death or permanent
disability; or (ii) Cause did not exist, your employment will continue as if inTEST had not delivered its Notice of Termination and there will be no termination arising out of such notice.
30. If you in good faith furnish a Notice of Termination for Good Reason and inTEST notifies you that a dispute exists concerning the termination within the 15-day period following inTEST's receipt of such notice, you may elect to continue your
employment during such dispute. If it is thereafter determined that (i) Good Reason did exist, your date of termination will be the earlier of (A) the date on which the dispute is finally determined or (B) the date of your death or permanent disability;
or (ii) Good Reason did not exist, your employment will continue after such determination as if you had not delivered the Notice of Termination asserting Good Reason. If Good Reason is determined to exist, your salary, bonus and Fringe Benefits prior to
such determination will be no less than your salary, bonus and benefits immediately prior to the Change of Control which gives rise to your right to receive Termination Benefits as provided in this Agreement.
31. If you do not elect to continue employment pending resolution of a dispute regarding a Notice of Termination, and it is finally determined that the reason for termination set forth in such Notice of Termination did not exist, if such notice was
delivered by you, you will be deemed to have voluntarily terminated your employment other than for Good Reason and if delivered by inTEST, inTEST will be deemed to have terminated you without Cause.
32. SUCCESSORS
33. BINDING AGREEMENT

This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by you and your personal or legal representatives, executors, administrators, successors, heirs, distributees, devisees and legatees. If you should die while any amount would still be
payable to you hereunder had you continued to live, all such amounts, unless otherwise provided herein, will be paid in accordance with the terms of this Agreement to your devisee, legatee or other designee or, if there is no such designee, to your estate.

NOTICES.
		For purposes of this Agreement, notices and all other communications provided for in this Agreement will be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly given when personally delivered or mailed by United States certified or registered mail,
return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed to you at the last address you have filed in writing with inTEST or, in the case of inTEST, at its main office, attention of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, or to such other address as either
party may have furnished to the other in writing in accordance herewith, except that notice of change of address will be effective only upon receipt.

MISCELLANEOUS.
		No provision of this Agreement may be modified, waived or discharged unless such waiver, modification or discharge is agreed to in writing and signed by you and the Chairman of the Board of inTEST. No waiver by either party hereto at any time of
any breach by the other party hereto of, or compliance with, any condition or provision of this Agreement to be performed by such other party will be deemed a waiver of similar or dissimilar provisions or conditions at the same or at any prior or
subsequent time. No agreement or representations, oral or otherwise, express or implied, with respect to the subject matter hereof have been made by either party which are not expressly set forth in this Agreement. The validity, interpretation,
construction and performance of this Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to its conflicts of law principles. All references to sections of the Exchange Act or the Code will be deemed also to refer to any
successor provisions to such sections. Any payments provided for hereunder will be paid net of any applicable withholding required under federal, state or local law. The obligations of inTEST that arise prior to the expiration of this Agreement will
survive the expiration of the term of this Agreement.

VALIDITY.
		The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this Agreement, which will remain in full force and effect.

COUNTERPARTS.
		This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument.

EXPENSES AND INTEREST.
		If a good faith dispute arises with respect to the enforcement of your rights under this Agreement or if any arbitration or legal proceeding will be brought in good faith to enforce or interpret any provision contained herein, or to recover
damages for breach hereof, and you are the prevailing party, you will recover from inTEST any reasonable attorneys' fees and necessary costs and disbursements incurred as a result of such dispute or legal proceeding, and prejudgment interest on any money
judgment obtained by you calculated at the rate of interest announced by Chase Manhattan Bank, New York from time to time as its prime rate from the date that payments to you should have been made under this Agreement. It is expressly provided that inTEST
will in no event recover from you any attorneys' fees, costs, disbursements or interest as a result of any dispute or legal proceeding involving inTEST and you.

PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS ABSOLUTE.
		inTEST's obligation to pay you the Termination Benefits in accordance with the provisions herein will be absolute and unconditional and will not be affected by any circumstances; provided, however, that inTEST may apply amounts payable under this
Agreement to any debts owed to inTEST by you on the date of your termination. All amounts payable by inTEST in accordance with this Agreement will be paid without notice or demand. If inTEST has paid you more than the amount to which you are entitled
under this Agreement, inTEST will have the right to recover all or any part of such overpayment from you or from whomsoever has received such amount.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT.
		This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement between you and inTEST concerning the subject matter discussed in this Agreement and supersedes all prior agreements, promises, covenants, arrangements, communications, representations, or
warranties, whether written or oral, by any officer, employee or representative of inTEST. Any prior agreements or understandings with respect to the subject matter set forth in this Agreement are hereby terminated and canceled.

LITIGATION.
		Any action or claim at law or equity arising under or related to this Agreement will be brought only in the Superior Court of New Jersey or in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the parties hereto hereby consent
to personal jurisdiction and venue in said courts.

DEFERRAL OF PAYMENTS.
		To the extent that any payment under this Agreement, when combined with all other payments received during the year that are subject to the limitations on deductibility under Section 162(m) of the Code, exceeds the limitations on deductibility
under Section 162(m) of the Code, such payment will, in the discretion of inTEST, be deferred to the next succeeding calendar year. Such deferred amounts will be paid no later than the 60th day after the end of such next succeeding calendar year, provided
that such payment, when combined with any other payments subject to the Section 162(m) limitations received during the year, does not exceed the limitations on deductibility under Section 162(m) of the Code.

If you would like to participate in this special benefits program, please sign and return the extra copy of this letter which is enclosed.
Sincerely,/s/ Alyn R. Holt
Alyn R. Holt
Chairman
ACCEPTANCE
I hereby accept the offer to participate in this special benefits program and I agree to be bound by all of the provisions noted above./s/Robert E. Matthiessen
Robert E. Matthiessen
Dated: April 17, 2001