Provincial Court Proceedings, 1658. 255

lawfull Attorney, to arrest, sue, impleade, or imprison Thomas
Pryor in my name for certaine Debts, w^ch Orders of Court hath past
agst mee
Wittnes Wilkes Maunder Martin X Cole

The plf (p^e Attornat Nicholas Gwyther) demandeth of the deft
One Thowsand sixty seauen pownds of Tob, w^th dammages, accord-
ing to Two seuerall Orders of Court in Virginia appearing Viz 23^th
Nouemb^r 1658, for seuen hund^d & seauenteene pownds of Tob. w^th
Court Charges. Allso another Order for Three hund^d & fifty pownds
of Tob. The s^d Orders & dammages accurring for th^e the plf trans-
ported into this Prouince the Deft, out of Virginia, hee being in-
debted there.
Ordered th^t the defts pay unto the plf according to his demand
One thowsand sixty seauen pownds of Tob, w^th Costs of suite &
Likewise satisfy all such dammages as shall afterwards bee made
appeare w^ch the prf shall incurre by means of his the defts s^d transport
hither

Liber
P. C. R.

To this demand being for 3000^l Tob, The deft sayth th^t this Debt
for w^ch hee is arrested is a iudgm^t of Court obteyned agst the deft
in Virginia by One M^r Heale, & assigned ouer to the plf by the s^d
Heale, w^thout his consent or knowledge, contrary to an Act of As-

Nicholas
Morris v.
Gregory
Marrell

sembly in this prouince, w^ch Judgm^t is in nature of a specialty; & if
the assigm^t were allowed yett notw^thstanding the plf sueth him in a
wrong accon.
The plf not appearing eyther by himselfe or Attorney, Ordered
th^t the plf be nonsuited & pay Costs of suite to the deft.

p. 212

Are called afore the Board & to the Barre John Williams, Mary
Williams & Mary Clocker conuicted of ffelony, And being demanded
what they can alleage why Judgm^t of Death should not bee pro-
nounced agst them, Who alleaging nothing, Craue mercy, The
Gouerno^r pronounced sentence, Ordering the Sheriffe to returne the
s^d Prisoners from whence they came, & thence to Exequution, & then
to hang by the neck till they bee Dead.

Attorney
General v.
Williams &
Clocker

Was Called to the Barre Thomas Courtney conuicted of Petite
Larceny.
Ordered th^t the Sheriffe take the s^d Thomas Courtney, & forth w^th
giue him Thirty stripes. Writt ad Exequend^m.

Attorney
General v.
Courtney

D^r Luke Barber petitioneth the Court for a writt of Partition of
the Plantaon now in the occupaon of Walter Hall, w^ch hee hath
formerly bought, & payd for, W^ch was Graunted.

Barber v.
Fox