200       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.

              Liber B B Wee finde for the plaintiffe a Mare in kinde not exceeding the age

                       of yeares and One thowsand pounds of tobaccoe with Cost of

                       Suite—

                       And the Court Ordered the Verdict bee entred for the Judgment—

                       By Vertue of a Speciall Writt from the Gouernor for Jeremy
                                   Whytherill
                     Capt Robt Cooke plaintiffe the plt being called to the board and by
                     Jeremy Whytherall deft them demanded what hee had to al
                     leadge, Answered that fourteene hogsheads of tobacco the said
                     Whytherell did carry away of the plts wth intent for New England
                     The dft. denyes hee had any tobaccoe from the plf: or by his Ordr
                     but by Order from Jno Hawkins—the said Hawkins denyes hee had
                     Order from hime—then Oath being tendred the said Jeremy
                     Whytherill aged twenty foure yeares or thereabouts sworne in open
                     Court saith That John Hawkins did deliuer this depont some notes
                     wth Ordrs for the receiuing the said tobaccoe which was by this De
                     ponant in Court produc'd—
                     Daniel Jenifer
                       The said Hawkins againe denves it, And saith that those notes bee
                     gaue to the plt. Rob: Cooke for the receiuing the said tobaccoe this
                     deponant the deft farther declares upon Oath that the plaintiffe did
                     first giue him notes for the said tobaccoe (by Ordr from MY William
                     Dorrington to whom the said tob: was Ordered from the said
                     Jno Hawkins) but sometime after the said Hawkins tooke the said
                     notes of the plaintiffes from hime and said his notes was the more
                [p.261]  proper & authenticke, And gaue him other Orders by which hee was
                     to receiue & did receiue the said tobaccoe. And being demanded of
                     him what hee was to doe wth the tobaccoe, said hee was Ordred by
                     MY Hawkins to carry it to the said Hawkins howse att the Mena
                     does.—after many disputes each pTson was left to seeke his owne
                     remedy &c.

                     To the honble the Gouernor and Councell of Maryland—
                       the humble petcon of Mary Bateman Sheweth
                       that she hath Seuerall Suites depending in this honble Court the

                       prosecucon whereof she intrusted Capt Thomas Manning with, Who

                       likewise hath part of her papers who is returned home and left her

                       bussiness--Yor petr therefore humbly Craues this honble Court to re

                       ferre those Causes wherein she is Concerned unto the next Prouall

                       Court in regard Capt Manning is gone and she not Capable to effect

                       it her Selfe And yor petr shall pray &c—

                       In the Cause of Mary Bateman plf, who the last prouinciail Court
                     craued an Attachment agst the Estate of Richard Wright merct de
                     ceased Came Nic° Spencer, Attorney of the Relict of the said Wright