302       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1668.

         Liber FF to the aforementioned Walter Story and John Emerson to dispose of
              the same in the Summer that he would doe well to leave the same at
              the said Notleys disposeing for the Use of the said John Long there
              being part of the same Goods perishable to lye in the Country till
              the said Long should send in Order for the disposeing of the same.

               Margarett Floyd Servant to Thomas Paine of St Maries County
              was then adjudged by the Court to be between eighteen and two and
              twenty yeares of age.

        [p. 598] John Harrington who married the Relict of Francis Mogg peti-
              tioneth the Court that either he may be allowed consideration for
              the keeping and maintaineing the Children of the said Francis or
              that they may continue with him dureing the pleasure of this Court.
               The Court haveing viewed the said Children doe Order that they
              remaine with the petitioner dureing the Courts pleasure, and that
              the eldest daughter of the deceased be exempted from the How and
              the mortar.
              George Day agt           Morecropt p quer   in an action of trespas upon
              Luke Gardner Notley p deft   the case
               The plaintiff at the last provinciall Court sued the deft for three
              Cowes and calves in consideration of a Grey Gelding bargained and
              sold the deft, time was then Granted the deft till this Court, to putt
              in his plea which is as followeth, vizt.
               And the said Luke Gardner by Thomas Notley his Attorny comes
              and defends the force and injury when &c and Saith that the afore-
              said George Day Ought not to have his action aforesaid against him
              for that whereas in the Assembly of Caecilius &c at St Johns in St
              Maries County within this Province the fourth day of march One
              thousand six hundred forty seaven in the sixteenth yeare of his
              Dominion holden Sett forth (amongst Other things) it was enacted
              by the Authority of the same Assembly that no contracts or Other
              Reckonings upon accompt, booke or Otherwise then by specialty
              Only which shall be above nine months Standing shall be pleadable
              within any Court within this province except such as were before
              the ending of the same assembly contracted as by the same Act may
              more fully appeare And the said Luke by his aforesaid Attorny for
              plea farther saith that long before the day of the procureing the
              Originall writt against him there was above nine months time elapsed
              and past between the tyme alleadged by the aforesaid George in his
              declaration when the Supposed assumption by the said Luke was
              made and the sueing forth the said Originall writt and this he is
              ready to averr Whereupon he demandeth judgmt if the aforesaid
              George his action aforesaid against him Ought to have &c.
                                                Tho: Notley.