Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666—67.   147

    hood to be then prsent to informe the surueyr the Naturall bounds of Liber FF
    each pattent &C: that the saide surueyr may make report thereof to
    this Court, &c:
      The Plaintiffe alleadgeth that the said Jury was Chosen and he
    not prsent to make his exceptions or Challenge, and further that
    Philemon Loyd gent the forenian of the said Jury was incapable of
    being a Jury man hee being undr age, whereupon the plt would not
    deliuer or produce his pattent for the surueyr or Jury to take a ueiw
    thereof according to the last ordr of this Court which hath deterr'd
    the Execucon thereof
      Wherefore the Court hath againe Ordered that this Cause be
    resplted till next Prouinall Court, and that a Jury be then impannell'd
    and appointed to ueiw all papers pattents and Records relateing to
    the difference now in hand, and to returne theire Verdict thereon
    that a period may be put to all disputes and Scruples made in the [P. 423]
    bounds or laying out of each parcell of land according to the same
    that is sett downe and exprest in each pattent


      Wm Wheeler being bound by Recognizance in tenn pounds Sterling
    last Court to prosecute Thomas Lewis upon suspltion of theft att
    this Prouinall Court, which said Wheeler made not his appearance
    accordingly, Ordered his said Recognizance of Tenn pounds sterling
    be forfeited to the Ld Proprietary


    Capt Wm Burges plaintiffe This Cause resplted from last Prouinall
    Ann Couill the Guardian of Court, the sherriffe of Ann Arrundell
      John Couill defendant County not hauing a due returne of
    Jenifer p quer the suthons made by which writt she
    or the said John Couill was to appeare, which suthons he now re-
    turnes endorced on the back side thereof thus
      By uertue of this writt I haue suthoned Ann Couill the Guardian
    of John Couill wthin written to appeare att the day and place wthin
    Conteyned upon the sixth day of July 1666
                        p mee Tho: Stockett high sherriffe
                                     of Ann Arrundell

      Whereupon the said Ann Couill was called, who appeared not,
    neither by herselfe nor her Attorney to defend the Complaint of
    the said William Burgess Whereupon it is Ordred by the Justices
    that Judgmt pass agt the defendt by Nihil dicit, and that the said
    Capt Wm Burges haue hold Occupy and Enjoy the said Fowre hun-
    dred acres of land to the onely Use and behoofe of him the said
    Wm Burgess & his heires for Euer wthout any further lett hinderance
    or molestacon from the said Ann Couill Guardian to John Couill
    or any other prson or prsons wtsoeuer, and further Ordered that the
    Pattent entred on Record soe surreptitiously Obtained by the said

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