416 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1660.

Liber
P. C. R.

according to the bounds laid out to me the said Preston expressed in
the Certificat dated August 13^th 1651.

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And whereas Captaine Thomas Cornwaleys pretendeth some Right
vnto the said Two hundred acres of land .... These Suite or Suites in
lawe concearning the same, And if in Case the said land be recouered,
by the said Capⁿ Cornwaleys then the said John Bagby and John
Webb is to make their Composition with the said Cap^t Cornwaleys,
and the said Preston to pay all charges in the Suite, and to surrender
the said land, And if any Tobacco be receiued for the said land by the
said Preston, and the land not proue the said Prestons as aforesaid
that then all such sume or Sumes of Tobacco soe paid or received as
aforesaid shall by the said Preston or his Assignes be repaid back
againe to those to it shall belong. In wittness whereof I the said
Richard Preston haue hereunto sett my hand this Seuenth of October
1654 Signed Richard Preston

Signed and deliuered in the presence of ffrancis Lacie William
Harper.

It is ordered that Richard Preston shall forthwith pay to the said
John Bagby the Tobacco which he paid the said Preston for the
land in the petition mentioned Together with the said Bagbyes part
of the Costs of Suite expended in the Cause betweene John Bateman
plantiffe, Robert Patrickson, William Mills and the said Bagby defts
concearning the said land.

Trueman
v. Burdett

To the honno^ble the Gouernor and Councell of Maryland

The humble petition of Thomas Trueman Sheweth that vour
petitioner bought of M^r. Burdett ffower Cowes, three young B'ulls,
and two Heiffers to be deliuered at M^r Stanleys Plantation, and your
pet^r did before his going for England Receiue three Cowes and one
Bull by M^r Burdetts Order, and Spring was twelue moneth M^r
Burdett promised to bring the rest of the Cattle to your pet^rs Plan-
tation, but being sick neglected it, since which tyme one of the
Heiffers is dead, and since your pet^r came into the Countrey againe,
M^r Burdett promised to deliuer one at his plantation in the Roome of
that which was lost, and ordered your petitioner to take his other
Heiffer with the rest of the Cattle at M^r Standleys your pet^r went
up with a shallop to fetch them downe this last Spring, and M^r Stan-
ley denyed to lett your petitioner haue the heiffer, and saith that M^r
Burdett sould her to him, The premisses Considered your Pet^r
Craues Order that the petitioners owne Heiffer at M^r Stanleys may
be deliuered upon the pet^rs plantation with her .... yeares milke with

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Costs of Suite And your pet^r shall euer pray &c.
Executio mde Vpon reading of w^ch petition Judgment was ac-
knowledged by the said Thomas Burdett for the Cattle and milke as
by the petition desired.
The Court is adiorned till 9 of the Clock tomorrow morning