442  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.





               Liber F F  minding and intending to Cozen Cheate Defraude and disinherite
                     then to say in the howse of the sd Hasling in South riuer, scituate on
                     a plantacon Called Turkeys point not long before the decease of the
                     sd Jeremiah did by Combinacon wth one Anthony D'mondidier then
                     seruant to the said Jeremiah deceased, make Compose forge and
                     publish a Certaine writeing called the last will and testamt of him
                     the said Jeremiah deceased the which they the said James Southward
                [p. 17]   and Anthony D'mondidier did and still doe averr that he the said
                     Jeremiah did make signe and deliuer as his last will and testamt the
                     which is utterly false and untrue, and by Culler and tenor of the said
                     prtended will the said James Southward hath possed himselfe of the
                     greatest part of the said Estate of him the said Jeremiah to the greate
                     losse damage detriment and disherizen of the heire of the said
                     Jeremiah now the wife of yot suppliant, the prmisses duely Consid
                     ered yor Humble petitionr doe humbly pray that yor Honnrs will
                     grant unto yot petr yot Honnors speciall warrant (him the said James
                     Southward & the said Anthony D'mondidier) to Comand to attend
                     at the Prouinall Court held the 13th day of June next to Answere to
                     the Complainte of yor Humble petitioner in this Case prsented
                     whereby yor petr may (uppon the hearing of the prmisses and the
                     seuerall Circumstances thereunto relating before yor Honnors) Ob
                     tame the said Estate now in the posson of him the said Southward
                     the which yot petr can substantially proue he the said Southward by
                     Culler and pttences of the aforesaid forged will hath for seuerall
                     yeares last past unjustly kept and wthheld from yot petrs wife—And
                     yor petr as in duty bound shall euer pray
               May 10th Philip Holleger who marryed the daughter of Jeremiah Hasling
                     dds writt agst James Southward of Baltemore County the Adminis
                     trator of Jeremiah Hasling in an accon uppon his Case to the uallue
                     of 40000lb tobacco
                      Warrt to sherriffe of Baltemore County to arrest &c. Ret 13th
                     June next Prouinciall Courte
               ditto die The said Holleger dds writt agst Anthony D'mondidier in an
                     accOn uppon his Case to the abouesd uallue
                      Warrt to sherriffe of Anne Arrundell to arrest &c. Retur of
                     June next Prouinciall Court
                      The said Holleger dds summons for George Safier Jonathn Hop
                     kinson to testifye in ditto Causo upon perill of 500lb tob: forfeiting
                     to the Lord Propr in Case they appeare not &c.
                      Warrt to sherriffe Anne Arundell and Talbott Counties ret 13th
                 June next—
                 [p. 18] The foregoeing Holleger dds summons for William Stanley Mary
               May 10th his wife and Thomas Snow to testifye in ditto Causo, uppon perill
                     of forfeiting 500lb each prson in Case they appeare not according to
                     summons—