Provincial Court Proceedings, 1667. 199

     the said Goods from the Custody of the said sherriffe did rescue and Liber FF
     the said Thomas How hath neuer since produc't any of the said
     Goods by him acknowledged to be in Custody belonging to the said
     Bayley                     Richard Collett sherriffe

      Thomas How and Phillis his wife was sett to the barre and held
     up theire handes, The Act being read
      Ordered by the Board That the said How and his wife haue each
     of them 40 stripes on the bare back
      Upon the intercession of some persons, the said Howes wife being
      Childe as to the Court informed therefore Ordered that the
     stripes to be giuen the said Phillis bee remitted, yet notwthstanding
     to be tyed on the Contrary side of the said tree during the time her
     husband Tho: How doth receiue his said 40 stripes

      John stone of Charles County Came into Court and desired that
     william Caluert Esq may be admitted his Guardian which was al-
     lowed by the Board

      Henry warren gent hauing this yeare a seruant by name Edward
     Nash bound by Indentures to serue scauen ycaics which Indentures
     are lost, therefore the said warren desires the Court to Judge of his
     the said seruants age to preuent further dispute
      And the Court Judged the said Edward Nash to be about fifteene
     yeares of age

      Ordered that Reymond Staple fort haue Judgmt Granted him upon
     his whole Attachment agt the Estate of John Bayley and that the
     said How doe remaine in the Custody of the sherriffe of Caluert
     County untill he shall produce what Estate he hath in his Custody
     belonging to the said John Bayley

     Robert Brook plt The plt: had Attachmt agt the Estate of the [p. 491]
     John Bayley defendt defendt which was attached in the said Plts
     owne hands hee standing endebted to the said Bayley by bill twenty
     thowsand pounds of tobaccoe, out of which hee desires to be sattis-
     fyed his Just dues from the said Bayley, the which he puts now into
     Court being Fowre Thowsand & twelue pounds of tobacco by accompt
     which is allowed of by the Board & Judgmt thereon except the said
     John Bayley comes into the prouince wthin a yeare and a day to dis-
     proue the same
      The said Brooks makes further appeare by receipt undr the said
     Bayleys hand for Eighte hundred and six pounds of tobaccoe re-
     ceiued in part of sattisfaccon for the said Bill of 20000 lb tob: allsoe
     Fowre Thowsand pounds of tobaccoe more allowed by the Court in
     discount of the said Bill and prou'd endorced on the back thereof
      It is further Ordered that the said Robert Brooke haue time untill
     next Court to prone and make appeare the charge and damage sus