246       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1667—68.

        Liber FF   Patrick Due plaintiff The defendt appealing from the County Court
              Jno Grammer defendt of Caluert to this Prouinall Court doth now
              Rozer p querdemurre therein (uizt) In prosecucon of
              Morecroft p deft    which appeale the said John Grammer by John
              Morecroft his Attorny saith that matter in Euidence by the said
              Patrick Due giuen, is not sufficient in law to proue the issue joyned
              betwixt them and this he is ready to auerre Wherfore for default of
              sufficient Euidence he Craueth Judgment agst the said Patrick if &c:
                                               John Morecroft
              And the Defendant Joyneth in Demurrer
                                  Benja Rozer

                Ordered that both parties be att the next Prouinciall Court and
              then this Cause to be there tryed and determined

                Uppon the request of Edmund Burton of Kent County made to
              the Court it is Ordered that the said Burton haue an Attachment agst
              the Estate of Henry Hudson late of the said County for the sume of
              seauen Thowsand flue hundred Seauenty foure pounds of tobacco

             The Court is adjourn'd till the afternoone

              The Justices all mett as in the morning

         [p. 548] John Anderton & Gartrud
                his wife Complainant The defendt being brought heither by a

              John Woollcott defendt writt of Asise issuing out of this Court
          Morecroft p quer     in these words following
              Nottley deft
                Caecilius &c: To the sherriff of Kent County Greeting Whereas
              John Anderton and Gartrud his wife Complaineth unto Us that John
              Woollcott unjustly and without Judgmt hath deseized the said Gar-
              trud of her freehould Called Beauer Neck within thirety yeares now
              last past, And therfore Wee Comand yow that if the said John Ander-
              ton and Gartrud his wife doe giue yow Security of prosecuteing
              theire Complaint that yow reseize that freehould by the Chattells that
              shall be taken thereon and the said freehould & Chattles to be in
              peace till the 11th day of february next, And in the meane time yow
              cause twelue free and lawfull men of the Neighbourhood to ueiw
              the said freehould and suffions them by good sumonners that they be
              then before Our Justices of Our Prouinciall Cort att st Marys ready
              to Recognize the said Assise, And that yow take pledges of the said
              John Woollcott or his Bayliffe if the said John Woollcott shall not
              be found that he be then and there to heare the said recognance And
              haue yow there the sufrtoners and the names of the pledges and this
              writt Wittness &c

                Maryland ss: The Assise came to Recognize if John Woollcott
              unjustly and without Judgmt hath deseized Gartrud the wife of John