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       That the word Trouer as wee humbly Conceiue is a word deriued Liber B B
     from the ffrench word Trouuer which iu Our English tounge signi- [p. 257]
    f yes to finde and in Our Cothon law (as wee humbly conceiue) sig
          nifyes an action which lyes agt a man that hauing found anothers
          Goodes ref useth to deliuer them upon Demand therefore wee humbly
          desire that the said Robins may bee Compell'd to proue the Trouer,
          and in Case hee fayleth thereof wee humbly Craue an abatement of
          the writt wth Cost and Charge of Suite—
          Nouembr 26th 1663
       According to Commission to Vs directed, from the Leiuetent Gen
     erall of this Prouince of Maryland bearing date the 13th of this in
     stant were Sworne William Hall John Neuill Jno Boules Daniel Wind
     Sarah Doughlas and Elioner Morrice as foll:
       Wittnes this Our handes  Tho: Mathews
                                Henry Addams

       Willm Hall aged 29 yeares or thereabouts Sworne & Examined in
     a difference depending betweene Robert Robins and Richard Dod
     in an accon of the Case of trouer and Conuersion sayth, about 3
     yeares agoe this last Summer about Cyder time which hee thinkes
     was about the last of July or the beginning of August being att
     John Neuills howse hee the said deponant going homewards did see
     a Mare by the fence of Thomas Bakers which was Called Robert
     Robins Mare and afterwards hee the said deponant did see the same
     Mare by Capt Jenkinses plantaton wth other Mares of W Prescotts
    about 2 or 3 monthes after the time which hee did first see her and uide folio
     further sayth not—                         230
       John Bouls aged 48 yeares or thereabouts sworne & Examined in
       a difference depending betweene Robert Robins and Richard Dod
       in an accon of the Case of trouer and Conuersione sayth that about
       2 yeares agoe Robert Robins and Richard Dod att William Boulses
       howse were discoursing concerning a Mare that the said Robins had
       lent the said Dod, and the said Dod denied that euer hee had bor
       rowed any Mare of him whereupon Mr Smyth being in the howse
       told him if hee did not borrow the Mare nor hyer the Mare it was a
       worsse bussiness for that One might suffer and the other loose his
       Mare for Ought that hee knew, and that the said Dod should reply
       if hee should see the Mare againe att his doore hee would not take
       her up, and further sayth that hee this deponant went wth the said
       Robins in search of the said Mare and also sayth that Robert Robins
       did say that hee deliuered her into the said Dods owne handes bridled
       and sadled and further sayth not—
       Daniel Wind aged 21 yeares or thereabouts sworne & examined [p. 258]
     in a difference depending betweene Robert Robins and Richard Dod
     in an accon of the Case of Trouer and Conuersion sayth that the
     Mare that was called Robert Robines hee f aught out of the tobacco