242Kent County Court Proceedings, 1668-1671.





         Liber C Your pettioner humbly Craues order against his wages in the
               shereffes hands & he shall pray

                Ordered by thes Court upon this pettion that the shereffe Shall
               pay unto the said Thomas linsted out of the Wages that is in his
               hands dew to Heugh Jones for his saruis in Capt Burges his march
               thre hundred and Aeighty pounds of Tobacco & Cask upon demaund

                    [The lower half of this record folio has been cut away]


     [fol. 6] (**) Att A   Court houlden the 31 March 1668 for the Lord Propriator
                   In the 36 yeare of his Dominion &c for Kent County:
                     Capt Robt vaughan 1 mr Nickolas p
                     mr Morgan Williams mr Wm Head
                Present
                     m Matthew Read m Rich: Blunt
                     mr Thomas osborne    mr John Dabb:

               Toby Wells plant:     in an Action of debt upon Account the
               Valentine Southerne DeftJ deft not being in the County the Court
                                doth order A referance to the next Court

                Kathorine Seale with the Consent of Her Husband peter Seale
               doth Acknowledge mr John vicaris her Atturney in open Court

               Toby Wells plant     in an Action of slander the Court
          Kathorine Seale by her Att: deft     not finding it Actionable granteth
                                    A nonsute with Costs

                John Wright plant In An Action of Debt the deft Acknowledgeth
              Tho: Ringgold deft Judgment for 1 1 51lb Tobacco due by bill to the
                pantiffe therefore the Court doth order pressent payment of the said
                Tobacco with Costs els Exeq:

               John Floyd by Charles Stewardi in An Action of Debt the deift Ac-
                his Atturney plant knowledgeth Judgment for foure
               Anthony Callaway deift     hundred pounds Tobacco due by bill
               to the plant: therefore this Court doth order present payment of the
               Tobacco with Cost of Sute els Exeq

               John Floyd by his Atturney plant in an Action of debt the defendt
               John vicaris deft     Acknowledgeth Judgment for
               Three hundred Eigty one pounds of Tobacco due by bill to the plant:
                therefore the Court doth order present paymt of the said Tobacco
                with Cost of Sute else Exeq

                * “When I examined this liber in 1865, there was recorded on folio 5 a commis
                sion dated 10th Feb. 1667 from Governor Charles Calvert to John Wright, ap
                pointing him Clerk of Kent County in the place of Tobey Wells. Some vandal
                hand has cut the commission out, and it is missing.” Hanson's Old Kent, p. 219.
                 Clerk John Wright begins at this point to record the court minutes.