Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.     257

     hinderance of the said Plaintiffe, forcing him the said Plaintiffe to Liber B B

       passe his bill for Eighte hundred pounds of Porke and Two hundred

       pounds of Tobacco for his said seruant or else hee the said Defendt

       would send her to New England, The aforesaid Two hundred pounds

       of tobaccoe being as the Defendt prtended for the aforesaid maid

       seruants imprisonmt. The Premises being taken into yor Honnors

       Serious Consideracon, The Plaintiffe humbly Cranes yor Honnots

       will please to Order him the said Defendt to returne him his bill wth

       Cost and dathages or such other sattisfacëon as yor Honnors in yor

       wisdomes shall thinke fltt, & hee shall pray &c—

       Jno Waire arts writt agst George Reynolds in an accOn of Debt thirde
     to   the uallue of jooooth tob: and Caske—
       Warrt to sherriffe of St Marys County to arrest &c Ret next Pro
     uinall Court 4th Octobt next
     To the honble the Gouernot and Councell
       The petcon of John Waire---Humbly Sheweth
       That whereas George Reynolds stands endebted to yor petr the
       quantity of Tenn Thowsand pounds of tobacco and Caske, his
       default in not Deliuering yor said petr three seruants as by his obli
       gacon doth more att large appeare—
       Wherefore yor petr humbly Craues an Order of this honble Court Rob: Slye
     for the said debt Together wth damage and Costs of suite, and yor Attorney
     petr as in Duty bound will pray &c

       George Goodrick demands writt of Attachmt agst the Estate of tide Ordr
     Edward Prescott this ensueing Preamble as followeth— ( uizt) 348:
       Whereas by an Ordr of the Prouinall Court dated the 5th of Octo- [p. 322]
     ber 1659 It was Ordered that George Gooddrick should haue flue Sept 5th
     thowsand pounds of tobacco wthout abatement out of the Estate of
     Capt Wm Lewes deceased Extended, as by the said Ordr more att
     large appeareth, And whereas Edward Prescott did undertake to pay
     the said flue thowsand pounds of tobacco unto the said George Good-
     rick as well as other debts to other Creditors in Consideraeon of a
     Lease of the lands of the sd Lewes to him by the Lord Proprietary
     Granted for and during the whole time of the Extent which Said
     Sume of 5000lb tob: is yet unpaid as is auerred and the said Edward
     Prescott doth willfully absent himselfe out of this Prouince to the
     intent to defraud the Creditors of the said Wm Lewes Estate
     Therefore
       Attach any of the Goods debts or Chattles wthin this Prouince to
     the uallue of 5000lb tob: in Caske belonging to the saide Edward
     Prescott, and them keepe in yor Custody, untill the said Edward
     Prescott or any Attorney for him shall put in security to bee att the

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