14 Assembly Proceedings, April- — May 1666.

U. H.
Journal
1659-98

Sale Hudson Consents to the Sale, The Jury finds that Good-
rick had Satisfaction & that Hudson Consented, therefore
Hudson had Satisfaction in the hands of his Servant Goodrick
whom he may call to Account if he pleases & Carver cannot

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force him to call his Servant to Account, But if he forbear to
call him to Account & by that think to have liberty to say he
received no Satisfaction & so avoid the Sale. The Law saith

Qui dolo dissidet possidere, pro Possessore habetur.
and Moreover the Law doth so far Conclude men as to their
own Acts Consents & Laches that they shall never be received
by any Plea of Law to disable their own Persons the which
Hudson hath Endeavoured to do & therefore in the Judgment
of Court in the said Cause there is Error
Will^m Calvert
Signed J John Morecroft
Tho^s Notley

Upon reading of which Petition & Errors,
Ordered that a Writt of Certiorari be issued to the Clerk of
the Provincial Court to Certify from the Record all the Pro-
ceedings in both Writts of Error between M^r Snowe Pl^t & M^r
Gerrard Def^t & M^r Hudson Pl^t & M^r Anderson Def'
Writt of Certiorari issued accordingly & to certify them to
the Assembly on Tuesday next under the said Clerk's hand
Then came a Member from the Lower House to desire leave
to Speak with Col W^m Evans being a Member of this House
which was granted.

The House Adjourned till to morrow morning Nine of the
Clock

Thursday the 12^th April Present as before

Upon the Petition of Alexander Howell for a maintenance
being disabled by diverse diseases to provide for himself
It is ordered that Charles County is bound to provide for
your Petitioner And that the Comm^rs of the said County in
their Court take Care that the said County do provide for him
as af^d And that any two of the Comm^rs are hereby enjoined
to provide for the s^d Petitioner till the said County Court, and
the said two Comm^rs to be them to whom the said Petitioner
first applyes himself unto
M^r Matthews the Interpreter being come & the Indians sent
for to declare what they have to say did speak as followeth viz.

Heads of the Indian Speech
Mattagund
Let all former idle Discourse of the youngmen on both sides
be forgotten.