202       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1667.

        Liber FF John Sumner being suthons to Serue as a Juryman refused to
        [p.494] sweare, Therefore Ordered hee be fined flue hundred pounds of

              tobacco according to Act of Assembly

              William Smyth plt
                            This Cause depending in Chancery, The de
              Nico young & Abra:                 •
                            fend Craues time till next Prouinall Court to
                Rowse defendants
                         put in his answere which was Granted by the
              Morecroft p quer
                            Board
              Caluert p defend

                sherriffe of st Marys County returnes his writt of Attachmt agt
              the Estate of Absolon Couant at the suite of Charles Caluert Esq
              thus endorc't on the said writt
                By uertue of this writt I haue attached Bills and debts of the
              within written Absolon Cóuant to the uallue of Two Thowsand fower
              hundred & sixteene pounds of tobacco in the hands of Capt Nicholas
              Young                       By Mee Jno Jarboe sherr

              Charles Caluert Esq plt The plt obtain'd Attachmt agt the defendts
              Absolon Couant deft     estate upon a protested bill of Exchange
              Jenifer p quer for £18t lb ster: of which the sherriffe of St
              Marys County returnes attached two thowsand fower hundred & six-
              teene pounds of tobaccoe in bills and debts in the handes of Capt Nico
              Young
                Ordered the said Bills remaines in the sherriffes Custody untill
              next Prouinall Court, And that the plt haue a new Attachmt agt the
              Estate of the deft for the remaindt of his said debt

              John Nuthall plt The plt sues the defendt in a plea of tresspass
              William Smyth deft: upon the Case for foure thowsand foure hun-
              Morecroft p quer dred pounds of tobaccoe and three hundred &
              Caluert p defendt thirety armes length of Roanoke due by Bill—
              The defendt Confesseth the debt, but will not acknowledge Judgmt
              on the declaracon, alleadging that the accon is wrong entred which
              should haue been an acëon of debt being a Specialty under hand and
              seale, Therefore Craues a nonsuite which by the generall uote of the
              board was allowed

       [p.    Thomas Nottley & John Morecroft appointed Auditors for the
              Orphants Accompt of William Bosman late of Somersett County de-
              ceased Came into Court and acquainted the Board that they would
              not bring the said Accompts to issue being noe wayes acquainted
              but alltogether Strangers to that Estate, which said Accompt cann
              bee noe wayes Stated or Audited better then by some of the neigh-
              bourhood in that County
                Wherefore Ordered that the Commrs of the County Court of Som-
              ersett doe take into theire Consideracon the Care of the said Orphants