528  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.





                Liber F F Cecilius &c: To Capt Hugh Oneale Thomas Thowrowgood and
                 [p. 126] Thomas Smoote Gent: Greeting whereas Our writt of Couenant
                      dependeth in Our Prouinall Court betweene Capt James Neale and
                      Arthur Turner and Margarite his wife of One hundred acres of land
                      in Charles County bounded upon the land of Benjamin Gill & for a
                      fine to be thereof leauyed betweene them before Our Gouernor &
                      Councell in the said Court according to the law & Custome of this
                      prouince, and the said Margarite wife to the said Arthur Turner as
                      we are informed is soe weak and not able wthout greate danger of
                      her Body to trauaile to St Marys by the day Contained in the said
                      writt to make the acknowledgmts which are fitt to be made in that
                      behalfe, wee tendring the Estate of the said Margarite in this behalfe
                      haue giuen yow or any two of yow power to take the acknowledgmtts
                      which the said Arthur and Margarite will make before yow or any
                      two of yow of the prmisses And therefore Wee Comand yow that
                      goeing in prson to the said Arthur & Margarite yow take theire
                      Acknowledgmts and when yow shall haue taken them yow Certifye
                      the same distinctly & plainely to the said Gouernor and Councell undt
                      yor handes and seales or any two of yow that then the said fine be
                      tweene the said partyes of the prmisses may be Leauyed before the
                      sd Gouernor and Councell in the said Court accordinge to the law &
                      Custome of this prouince sending to the said Court this writt, Witt
                      nes Our Deare Brother Philip Caluert Esq Our Chancellor of Our
                      said Prouince, This thiretyth day of Octobr One thowsand six hun
                      dred sixty ffiue                 Philip Caluert

                 [p. 127] WilliamHollingsworth dds writt agst James Jolly in an accon of
                 Nouembr debt to the uallue of 4898lb tobacco

                       Warrt to sherriffe of St Marys County to arrest &c: Ret. 2d Janu
                      ary next Prouinall Court

                   25th Lycence then granted to Richard Deauor to keepe an Ordinary in
                      the Island Creeke in Choptanck and Bond giuen by him to keepe good
                      Orders &c. for one whole yeare in the sume of 2000lb tob: uide lib:
                      1658: fo: 12: to Philip Land for the Lycence and Bond in ditto
                      lib: fo: 397

              Decembr 4th William Smyth dds writt agst William Price in an accon of Debt
                   1665 to the uallue of thirety thowsand pounds of tob:

                       Warrt to sherriffe of Charles County to arrest &c: Ret: second
                      January next Prouinall Court

              Decembr 6th John Bayley dds writt agst Reymond Staplefort in an accon uppon
                      his Case to the uallue of sixty ffowre thowsand pflds of tobacco

                       Warrt to sherr. of Caluert County to arrest &c: Ret. 2d January
                      next Prouinciall Court