Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661. 455

To the honorable the Gouernor and the rest of the Councell now
Sitting

The humble peticon of Robert Cager Sheweth That yo^r peticon^r
being very weake in body and in noe Capacity to cast or putt all
Accompts and Reckoninge in any forme of a Suite depending Betwixt
Vinson Attchison and yo^r pet^r. Yo^r peticon^r cranes yo^r Honors for a
Refference till the next Courte and he shall pray &c.
In Consideracon that one of the def^ts Wittnesses lying very sick It
is referred whilst the next Courte and the def^t is to bring the depo-
sicon of the Relict of William Hungerford now wife to William
Barton at the next Courte vnder the hand of some of the Com^rs for
this County

Liber
P. C. R.
p. 461

Atchison v.
Cager

The Administrato^rs of Jane Fenwicke desires a Quietus est of the
Estate of Cuthbert Fenwicke to whome she was Administratrix. It
is therefore Ordered that any person that shall pretend to any creditt
to that Estate doe come in and make it appeare before the next
Courte otherwise a Quietus est to be graunted And that this be
affixed at the Courte Doore. John Gittings Clre

Re
Fenwicks
Estate

To the Right honorable the Gouernor of the Prouince of Maryland.

The humble peticon of Patience Martine Widdowe Humbly Shew-
eth That whereas yo^r peticon^r was at this last honorable Courte and
did there proue the will of her deceased husband whereupon M^r
Coursey pmised yo^r peticon^r a letter of Administracon whereby I
might lawfully Enjoye and possesse my rights of the land and
howseing therein bequeathed to yo^r pet^r and her Children, but the
Widdowe Martine George Wilson and Thomas Ward most barbar-
ously last night hailed me out of my howse and shoved my Children
out head long alsoe soe that wee were forced to lye out in the planta-
con all night, and they haue nayled up the doores of my howse and
the tobacco howse which yo^r peticoners husband built Soe that yo^r
pet^r could not gett into them and they farther threaten that tomorrow
they .... Bedd and other goods out of yo^r peticon^rs howse.
.... desires yo^r honor to graunte .... an Order to possesse Reenter

Ex parte
Martin

and Enjoye her howseing and Ground without Lett or molestacon
And that yo^r peticon^r may quietly possesse and make vse of the same
Soe that she and her Children may not pish for want thereof And
yo^r pet^r shall ever pray.
Vpon the peticon aforesaid It is ordered that the Sherriffe doe
possesse her in her said howse and Land out of which as she alleadges
she was violently Ejected and that he doe by the oathe of twelue
Lawfull men of the Neighbourhood which he is hereby impowred tc
Sumon Enquire of the said force and retourne their verdict intc
this Courte by the first day of the next Courte

p. 462