384        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1668.

        Liber FF Richard Perry plt agt Justinion Gerrard deft Two Thowsand
              Eighte hundred fourty Eight pnds of tobb:
        [p. 686] Robert Henly deft in suite agst Philip Biss Twelue hundred and
              twenty pounds of Tobaccoe
                Thomas Stockett sher. of An Arrundell County for imprisonmt of
              Humbert Lambert Three hundred seauenty flue pnds of tobaccoe
                Robert Knap deft in suite of Peter Bawcomb Six hundred & Sixty
              pounds of tobaccoe
                Oliuer Gery plt agst Eliz: Leitchworth the Admx of Tho: Leitch-
              worth deft Eleauen hundred and tenn pounds of tob:

                James Singleton John Barker and Benjamin Pride being sumoned
              as wittnesses by Peter Bawcomb hath Nine hundred pounds of to-
              bacco allowed them agt the said Peter Bawcomb in Causo inter him &
              Ron: Knap

                John Gittings as Ordred to appeare this Cort to testify Concerning
              the Records in Causo inter Peter Archer and Wm Moffett hath allowed
              him for his Charge agt the said Archer One hundred & Eighty
              pounds of tobacco

                This Indenture made the Second Day of december in the Seaven
              & thirtyth yeare of the Dominion of the Rt honoble Caecilius Absolute
              lord and Proprietary of the Province of Maryland lord Baron of
              Baltemore &c & in the yeare of our lord God one thousand Six hun-
              dred Sixty eight Betweene William Bretton of Brettons bay in the
              County of St Mary's in the said Province gent and Temperance his
              wife of the one part and Henry Waren of St Innagoes in the
              County and Province gent of the other part wittnesseth that whereas
              the said lord Baltemore by his Deed of grant under his greate Seale
              used in the said Province for granting of lands there bearing date
              att St Maries the Tenth day of July in the yeare of our lord one
              thousand six hundred & Forty Did for the Consideracons therein
              menconed grant unto the said William by the name of William Bret-
              ton gent All that Necke of land lying in Potomeck riü neere ou agt
        [p.687] Herons Island & bounding on the South wth the said Potomecke riü
              on the west with St Clements Bay on the East wth a greate bay called
              Bretton bay & on the North with a line drawne Crosse the Woods
              from St Clements bay unto the head of a little Creeke in Brittaine bay
              called St Nicholas Creeke where now goeth the hedge of the sd William
              Bretton the said Necke Conteyning in the whole Seaven hundred &
              Fifty acres or thereabouts be itt more or lesse Alsoe whereas the
              lord Baltemore by his deed of grant undr his greate Seale used in the
              sd Province for granting of lands there bearing date at St Maries
              the twelfth day of January in the Seaven & twentyth yeare of his
              lops Dominion oü the sd Province annop domini One thousand six
              hundred fifty eight Did for the Consideracons therein menconed like-