Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.  301






     handes of the Honble Gouernor & Secretary, Now soe it is, the said Liber B B
     Hammond deceased and since the said Willan whose relict nor her
     husband Thomas Wynne will allow of any proffitt due to the pit: as
     marying the said Hammonds relict which is great damage to the
     pit: his wife and her Children her husband not onely loosing his
     life to which imployment might be something attributed therein but
     his time and laboure and now allsoe his sallery wthout this honble
     Court will giue redresse therein, which said Hammonds Interest
     amounts unto ffiue thowsand pounds of tobacco upon which he bring
     eth his suite, And humbly Craues Order of this honble Court that the
     defendt may make sattisfaccon unto the pit: to the uallue of the said
     5000lb tobacco and as in duty bound bee shall pray

       Jerome White Esq enters accon of debt to the uallue of ffoure hun- [p. 371]
     dred and fifty pounds of tob: Caske the Assignee of Capt James
     Neale the Assignee of Tho: Bradley agst Richard Collett the Execu
     tor of Francis Riggs due by bill undr hand, bearing date the 5th Janu

       ary 1663—

       Christopher Dobson demds writt of summons for Francis Jackson 15th
     to testifye &c in Causo inter ditto Dobson and James Jolly in an
     accon of debt to the uallue of 14000lb tob: upon perill of forfeiting
     500lb tob:

       Warrt to Sherriffe of St Marys County to warne &c ret 20th of
     this instant Xcembr
       The said Dobson dds writt of summons for Abraham Wattson
     to testifye &c in ditto Causo, wth the like penalty
       Warrt to sherriffe of Caluert County ret the 20th of this instant
     December

       This Jndenture made the tenth day of August in the yeare of Our
     Lord God One thowsand six hundred sixty one, betweene William
     Caluert of Caluerts Rest in the County of St Marys Esq of the
     One parte and Robert Hooper in the mannor of St Michaells in the
     said County of St Marys on the other pte Wittnesseth that the said
     Wm Caluert for diuers good Causes and Consideracons him there-
     unto especially mouing hath for euer sold demised granted and to
     farme Letten and by these prsents doth for euer sett demise grant
     and to farme lett to him the said Robert Hooper his heires Executors
     Administrators or Assignes alle and singular his tenement or planta
     Con Commonly Called and knowne by the name of Hoopers plan
     tacon beginning at a marked Oke standing neer the line of the wid
     dow Potters bounding on the north a line drawne East from the
     said Oke for the length of ninety perches to a marked Oke that stand
     eth in a Pyne swamp on the East wth a line drawne South and by
     East from the said Oke for the length of One hundred perches to a
     marked Pyne on the south wth a line drawne west south west from