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      exceeding great loss and damage and ailmost utter impouerishmt and Liber F F
      ruine, the plts being poor Orphans and therefore humbly pray that
      they may haue Judgmt of Court agst the deft: for the said Estate
      According to the tenor of the deed aforesaid together Cost of [p. 32]

      suite And they as in duty bound shall euer pray &c—

      To the Rigt Honble the Leiutennt Generall and Councell of Maryland
       The humble petn of Paull Marsh humbly sheweth
       That yor petr hauing hired A serut to Pope Aluey for a thowsand
      weight of tobacco till October next, is in great doubt that by some
      unjust practice of the said Pope he shall not be paid the said tobacco
      if he loose not his serut in regard the said Pope hath aliready been in
      question for the life of one serut, and since the hyring yor petrs serut
      another dyed being his hyred serut, & as I am Credibly informed laid
      his death to the sd Pope and yor petr is informed the said Pope Kikt
      him one day that the fellow fell downe dead for the prsent
       The prmisses Considered yor petr humbly prayes security suffi
      cient may be afforded for the said serut at the expiracon of his time
      & allsoe the tobacco cost of suite—And yor petr shall euer pray &c.
       Paull Marsh dds writt agt Pope Aluey in an accon uppon his Case May 29th
      to the uallue of two thowsand pounds of tobaccoe—
      Warrt to sherriffe of St Marys County to Arrest &c ret June
      next

       Summons then issued to the sherriffe of St Marys County to ditto die
      warne 24 person of the neighbourhood to serue as Jurors the next
      Prouinciall Court being the 13th day of June next in wt Causes so-
      euer shall then bee depending betwixt the Rigt Honble the Lord propt
      plt and prsons for criminalls defts they being not to fayle us they
      will answere the Contrary

          Proclamacon By the Leiutennt Generall of Maryland  [p. 33]
       Whereas at the last Prouinciall Cort houlden at St Marys for this
      prouince on the first day of March last the next Prouinall Court was
      then appointed to be held on the second twesday in June following
      being the 13th day thereof
       Now for as much as the houlding of that Court on that day ap
      pointed will proue uery inconuenient when as the Gouernor and
      Councell cannot then conueniently meet together, being pressed wth
      some urgent Occasiones of the Prouince wch cannot suffer delay
       These are therefore to giue notice to all persons whome it may
      Concerne that the said Cort to be held on the 13th day of June as
      aforesaid is adjourn'd untill the first Twesday in August next being
      the first day thereof, and all writts and other Processe issued for
      that Court intended to be houlden on the 13th day of June shall be