Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.  209






       Sometime in ffeb: 1663 att the house of John Grammers Wee did Liber B B
     heare Thomas Pagett Call Mr Standley Cheating Knaue and did say
     hee would proue it and other Odious words, and all was Concerning
     a Bill of Giles Sadleirs as wittnes Our handes this 24th ffeb: 1663
                                     Mathew Stone
                                     James Veitch
       Att the same time I heard Thomas Pagitt say to Mr Standley that
     hee was a Cheating Knaue and would proue hime soe as wittnes my
     hand                            Tho: Sprigg—

       Robert Kingsbury dds writt agt Thomas Pagett in an accon of ditto die
     the Case—
     Warrt to sherriffe of Caluert County to arrest &c Ret next Proall
     Court 3d May next
       Summons issued in ditto Causo to warne Hugh Standley and
     William Graues to testifye &c uppon perill of each forfeiting 500lb
     tob: to the Lord Proprietary Ret ut Supra—
     To the honble Gouernot & Councell of the prouince of Maryland— [p. 271]
       The humble petcon of Robert Kingsbury Sheweth
       That whereas yor pet' hauing bought of Thomas Pagett a cer
       tame parcell of land the quantity of two hundred acres more or lesse
       and yor petr hauing fully Sattisfyed the said Pagett for the said land
       as by Bill of Sayle may more plainely appeare and yor petr demanding
       possession of the said land of the said Pagett is now denyed—
       Wheref ore yor petr humbly Craues Order of this honble Court for
     the said land wth dathages & Cost of Suite and hee shall euer
     pray

     Proclamacon By the Leiuetennt Generall of Maryland

       Whereas att the last Prouall Court houlden att St Marys for this
     Prouince on the fifth day of this prsent instant the next Proall Court
     was then appointed to bee held on the first twesday in May follow
     ing being the thirde day thereof—
     Now forasmuch as the houlding of that Court on that day ap
     pointed will proue uery inconuenient when as the Gouernor and
     Councell cannot then Conueniently meet together, Being pressed wth
     some Vrgent Occasiones of the prouince which cannot suffer delay—
     These are therefore to giue notice to all prsons whom it may Con
     cerne, that I haue adjourned the said Court to bee held on the thirde
     day of May as aforesaid, untill the second twesday in June next
     being the 14th day thereof, And all writts and other Processe issued
     for that Court intended to bee houlden on the thirde day of May
     shall bee returnable on the 14th day of June as aforesaid. Giuen undr
     my hand this Sixteenth day of Aprill 1664—








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