Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.  345






     Merchant from all bills Bonds accompts or Execucons whatsoeuer Liber B B
     from the beginning of the world to this prsent day. In wittnes
     whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand and scale this 29th day of
     Decembr 1664                 John Nuthall scale
       Signed sealed & deliuered
       In the prsence of Vs
          William Caluert
          Nicholas Young

       John Norwood dds writt agst Thomas Hammond of Ann Arundell Decembr
     in an accon uppon his Case                29th
       Warrt to sherriffe of Ann Arundell to arrest &c ret 7th ffebruary
     next Prouinall Court in these words following
       Theis are in the name of the Rigt Honble the Lord Proprietr to
     will and require yow to arrest the Body of Thomas Hammond and
     him in safe Custody keepe untill hee shall giue in sufficient security
     to appeare by himselfe or Attorney att the next Prouinall Court to
     be houlden att St Marys the 7th day of ffebruary next there to an
     swere the suite of John Norwood in an accon upon his Case for that
     the said Thomas Hammond one hhd of tobacco of his the said John
     Norwoods Seized by the said Norwood for a fine due from him the
     said Hammond for not appearing att Musters found in his the said
     Thomas Hammonds Tobacco howse he did unlawfully dispose off
     and Conuert to his the said Hammonds owne proper use and then
     and there returne this writt, And for soe doeing this shall be yor
     warrt Giuen under my hand this 29th day of December 1664—
     To the Sherriffe of Ann          Philip Caluert
       Arundell County

       Idem mutatis mutandis p Samuell Allcock To the Sherriffe of the ditto die
     said County
       Idem mutatis mutandis p William Dauies onely declaring 2 hhds ditto die
     when as the other two aboue menconed saith but one hhd To the
     sherriffe of the said County     Philip Caluert
     To the honoble the Gouernor & Councell      [p. 423]
       John Norwood of Norwood in the County of Anne Arrundell Ann
     gentn and late high sherriffe of the said County Complaynes agst Arundell
     Tho: Hammond in the Custody of the Sherriffe of the said County
     for that whereas the said John Norwood uppon the 15th day of
     Nouembr in the yeare of Our Lord 1662 being High Sherriffe of the
     said County did by law seize a hhd of tobacco weighing ffoure hun
     dred & fourty poundes neat in the tobacco howse of the said Thomas
     Hamond for a fine due from him the said Hamond for not appear
     ing att Musters and soe become possd of the said hhd of tobacco as
     of his owne proper Goods marked wth his marke and he being thereof
     possd the sd John Norwood that hhd of tobacco afterwards (to witt)