Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  459






       May it therefore please yor Honnrs to Consider the prmisses and Liber F F
      grant yor petr Order to haue possession of the land aforesd his
      Costs and Dathages and he shall

       Thomas Gerrard dds writt agst George King in an accon of tres- July
      pas to the uallue of 20000lb tobb:
       Warrt to sherriffe of St Marys County to arrest &c. Ret: first
      August next Prouinall Court
      To the honble Gouernor and Councell
       The humble petn of Tho: Gerrard agst George Kinge Most hum
      bly sheweth
       That whereas the said Thomas Gerrard by his deed bearing date
      the 28th day of January wch was in the yeare of Our Lord 1653 did
      demise and to farme lett unto Thomas Dinniard One tract of land
      Containing three hundred acres of land scituate lying and being in
      the County aforesaid To haue and to hould unto the said Thomas
      Dinniard his Executors and Assignes for and during the tearme of
      twenty and one yeares from thence forth, for and in Consideracon
      of and under the scuerall Couenants Clauses prouisoes payments and
      agreemts in the said Demise menconed & Contained and on the part
      and behalfe of the said Thomas Dinniard his Executors and Assignes
      to be done and prformed as by the said deed of demise Relacon
      thereto being had more at large appeareth, And that in Case the said
      Thomas his executors or Assignes or any of them shall faile in pay- [p. 41]
      ing or prforming any or all the Couents Clauses prouisoes paymts
      and agreemtts in part or in all that then and in such Case and from &
      after such faileing and paymt the said deed and demise to be uoid,
      and the demised prmisses and euery part and parcell thereof to Re
      turne be and Continue unto the sd Thomas Gerrard his heires and
      Assignes as if such demise had neuer been made, And yor petr in
      fact saith, that the said George King Assignee of the said Tho:
     Dinniard hath not prformed the said Couenants, for that he hath
       not paid the rent reserued thereby: att the time therein and thereby
       appointed to be paid but the same hath denied to pay unto yor petr
       to his Dathage of twenty thowsand pnds of tobacco and therefore he
       bringeth his accon—
       May it therefore please yor Honnors to Consider the prmisses and
      grant yor petr Order to haue possession of the land aforesaid wth
      his Costs and Dathages, and he shall

       Thomas Gerrard dds writt agst Marmaduke Snow in an accon of July 8th
      trespass to the uallue of 10000lb tob:
       Warrt to sherriffe of St Marys County to arrest &c. Ret: pma
      August next Prouinall Court—