Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  5






       Vppon the backside of an Attachmt graunted 26th Aprill 1665, att Liber F F
      the suite of Joseph Hooper agst the estate of James Jolley.
       Attatched of James Jollys estate in the hands of Zachary Wade
      this 6th May 1665 the sume of nine hundd sixty & nine pownds of
      Tob. for the use of Joseph Hooper. More attatched in the hands of
      Thomas Wentworth 12th of May 1665 ninety flue pownds of Tob.
      for the use of the aforesd Hooper. Abraham Rowse
       Ordered to be Continued ‘till next Prouinciall Court.


     To the honble the Gouernor & Councell.       [p. 102]
       The homble Petn of Mary Bateman, Executrix of John Bateman
      Deceased, sheweth.
       That shee hath fully admistred uppon the estate of her husband
      John Bateman Deceased & that the Last Prouinciall Court shee did to
      usuall forme sett up her name att the Court Doore, Requyring all
      prsofls concerned to come & make their Claime (if any they had) to
      any Debts due from the sd estate or make objections to her Acct in
      & uppon the sd Estate att the then next Prouinciall Court, to bee de
      liuered, Since wch time none hath appeared nor doth appeare.
       Wherefore yoT Petr humbly prayes tht this honble Court will please
      to appoynt her Auditors to receiue & examine her Account & to order
      tht uppon their allowance of her sd Acct shee may haue her Quiety
      Est, And shee shall pray &c:
       Ordered tht the petr sett up her name for Quietus est uppon the sd
      Estate, And tht Euery one bring their objections into the secretaries
      office, It being noe busines of this Court.


      To the honble the Gour & Councell,
       The humble Petn of Marmaduke Snowe sheweth,
       That M' Thomas Dent late sheriffe of St Maries County hauing
      Order & wart to pay yor Petr one Thowsd pownds sterl. out of the
      Estate of Mr Thomas Gerard by extent of the moiety of any of the
      sayd Gerards Lands, or otherwise of his prsoflall estate.
       The sd sheriffe hath not accordingly prformed, but left some of the
      sd Lands unextended, & what hee hath extended is not to the ualue
      of y0rs Petrs Debt, wch is to yor Petrs extreame dammage.
       The prmises considered yor Petr humbly Craues yor honrs releife
      therein, & hee shall pray &c: Marmaduke Snowe.
       Vppon this Petn Ordered tht a new writt of extent issue out to
      extend some other or new parcell of Land in that Bayliwick, to sat
      isfy the Remainder of the demand, That extent allready Layd not
      being full & compleate to satisfy the whole Debt of the Petr.