Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  473






       These are in the name of the Rigt Honble the Lord propr to will & Liber F F
     require yow to arrest the Body of Thomas Hamper and him in safe
     Custody keepe untill he shall giue in sufficient security to appeare by
     himselfe or his Attorney att the next Prouinall Court to be houlden
     att St Marys on the 10th instant there to answere unto such thinges
     as shall be objected agst him on the behalfe of the Lord propr for
     unlawfully rideing of a mare belonging to Wm Smyth and for breach
     of his lops peace, And for soe doeing this shall be yor warrt Giuen undr
     my hand this 2d Octobr 1665 Philip Caluert
     To Andrew Robinson Constable
       in Petuxent riuer neer
       back Creeke
       the same issued uerbatim mutatis mutandis for Thomas Courtney Ditto die
     directed to Tho: Hatton Constable
       The aboue said suthons for Robt Troope was directed to the sher
     rife of Charles County

       James Strowd dds writt in Chancery for Thomas Bennitt to ap- [p. 60]
     peare next Prouinall Court on the 10th instant to answere &c undr the Octobr 4
     penalty of 100lb sterling.

     To the honnble the Gouernor Chancellor And Councell of the Prouince
         of Maryland
       Humbly Complaining sheweth unto yor Honnrs yor dayly Orator
     James Strowd of Herring Creeke in the County of St Marys in the
     Prouince of Maryland Boate wright that whereas about the month of
     May 1663 Thomas Bennitt was seised in his Demesne as of fee, of &
     in one plantacon Cont: 150 acres of land Comonly Called & knowne
     by the name of Smootes plantacon lying in the said Herring Creeke
     and being thereof soe seized, the said Thomas Bennitt for & in Con
     sideracon of the suffie of six thowsand pounds of tob: to him the
     said Bennitt att seuerall times to be paid and fowre thowsand flue
     hundred pounds thereof allready in hand paid did on the 14th day of
     May 1663 fully freely & absolutely alien grant bargaine & sell unto
     yor said Orator his heires & assignes for Euer the said plantacon of
     150 acres of land wth all buildings fencings Orchards & Comodities
     wtsoeuer to the same belonging to haue & to hould the said land &
     prmisses to yor said Orator and his heires for Euer to the only Vse
     of yor said Orator his heires & assignes for Euer, as by a wryting undr
     his hand more att large appeareth But now soe it is may it please yor
     Honnors that att the time of the making of the said wryting yor said
     Orator being unskillfu!l and alltogether ignorant in the law Concern
     ing Just titles to land did verily thinke he had A good title thereunto
     which now by the aduice and instruccons of his freinds doth plainely
     to him appeare to the Contrary, And notwthstanding that this Compit:
     hath sundry times as well by himselfe as by diuers others sent & come