Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  447






     Causes soeuer shall then be depending betwixt the Lord Propr plt Liber F F
       and any prson to Vs prsented as Criminalls deft8 wherein they are
       not to fayle as they will answere the Contrary at theire perills—
       The same issued to the sherriffe of Charles County to summons 18th
     24   prsons wthin that County mutatis mutandis—

       John Norwooci dds writt agst Thomas Hammond in an accon of [p. 24]
     Trouer & Conuersion to the uallue of three thowsand pounds of May 17
       tobacco—
       Warrt to sherriffe of Anne Arundell County to arrest &c. Ret
     I3th June next Prouinall Court—
     To the honnble the Gouernor & Councell
       John Norwood of Norwood in the County of Anne Arundell gent
     & late high sherriffe of the said County Complaines agt Thomas
     Hamond in the Custody of the sherriffe of the sd County for that
     whereas the said John Norwood upon the day of Nouembr in
     the yeare of Our Lord 1662 being high sherriffe of the said County
     did by law seize a Certaine hhd of tobacco weighing foure hundred
     & fourty pounds nett in the tobacco house of the said Thomas Ham
     mond for a fine due from John Hammond his sonne for not appear
     ing att musters and soe became possd of the said hhd of tobacco as
     of his owne proper goods marked his marke and hee being
     thereof possd he the said John Norwood that hhd of tobacco after
     wards (to witt) the 17th day of NouemW aforesaid out of his handes
     and possession did loose and let goe leauing it in the tobacco howse
     of the sd Thomas Hammond which said hhd of tobacco soe lost
     afterwards to witt the 19th day of Nouembr aforesaid in the tobacco
     house of Thomas Hammond aforesaid to the hands & posson of the
     aforesaid Thomas Hammond by findeing came; yet the sd Thomas
     Hammond knowing the hhd of tobacco aforesaid to be the proper
     hhd of tobacco of him the said Jno Norwood and to him the said
     John Norwood of right to belong and pertayne plotting and Con
     triuing him the said John Norwood wholy to defraud and Cheate
     of the aforesd hhd of tobacco weighing foure hundred & fourty
     pounds neate that hhd of tobacco to him the said John Norwood,
     although afterwards (to witt) the 8th day of Septembr 1663 openly
     in this honble Court & diuers times both before and since he hath been
     thereupon required he hath not deliuered but that hM of tobacco to
     deliuer to him the said John Norwood heitherto he hath alltogether
     refus'd and the hhd of tobacco aforesaid afterwards (to witt) the
     22th Nouembr aforesaid to his the said Thomas Hammonds proper
     Vse & benefitt he hath Conuerted & disposed to the damage of him
     the said John Norwood Three thowsand pounds of tobacco, And
     thereuppon he bringeth his suite—