118    Charles County Court Proceedings, 1658-1662.

              Liber A   the sayd Thomas stone doth hearby acknowledge to haue receaued
                   full satisfaction for all bills or Bonds dew to him The sayd Stone from
                   the sayd pills from the begining of the world unto the day of the
                   dat hearof by the order of the sayd Stone recorded this 7th of May
                   Ao 1661              Per me George Thompson Clarke
              [p. 130]At A Court held the 7th of May
                               Presentes
                          Mr Thomas Stone
                     Mr Hennerie Addames  . .    Mr Francis Pope
                                      Commissioner
                     Mr Thomas Baker                            Mr James Linsey

                     To the Worshipfull Commissioners of of Charleses Countie
                     The humble Petition of Thomas Kelle most humbly Sheweth
                349 That Whearas your Petitioner after his Remouall from Mr Linseys
                   went ouer to the sayd linseys hous to transport his goods and hauing
                   som of them upon his bake to Carrie downe to the Connow MT Linsey
                   Came and tooke the same from your petitioner (which in respect
                   that hee is a Commissioner you Petitioner is Laught to giue it its
                   Right tearme) and thearby your Petitioner hath suffered much darn
                   mage The Premisses beeing taken into your serious Consideration
                   your Petitioner most humblie humbly Craueth Reliue and your Peti

                   tioner as in dutie Bound Shal euer Pray &c

                   Thomas Kelle Plantiue    The Plantiue aresting the defendant in
                   Mr James Linsey Defendant an action of the Cas Prefered his peti
                350     tion as aboue specified and desiered that his witneses shoold haue
                   thear oaths giuen them Concerning the Premisses which was Granted

                     Garrat Sennet Sworne and examined in open Court sayeth tht Mr
                351 Linsey gaue order unto this deponant and the rest of his familie that
                   nether hee nor thay shoold let Thomas Kelle haue any thing out of
                   his hows unles bee himself wear at hom and further sayeth that hee
                   this deponant had linnan of this sayd Kelles and hee this deponant
                   put the sayd linnan into the Chest of the sayd Mr James Linseys when
                   hee was from home and further sayeth not:

                     Mr George Schales aged 25 years or thear abouts sworne and ex
                352 amined in open Court sayeth that Thomas Kelle Came to MT James
                   Linseys hows to fetch away his things on saterday sumtime in aprill
                   and did not demand them that night but on sunday morning was
                   cariing them away and Mr Linsey stoped him and this Deponant sup
                   poses it was becaus it was Sunday and that the sayd kelle Gomming
                   an other time to demand his things, Mr Linsey bid him tacke them
                   or hee woold through them out of doores and further sayeth tht
                   (befor this the sayd Linsey gaue order tht the sayd kelle shoold not
                   haue any thing unles hee himself wear at hoam) the sayd kelle de