412       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1668—69.

      Liber FF    last Court the first day of this Court which hee doth now deliuer
             into Court wherein hee saith that the defts answere is insufficient in
             law to be replyed unto for many faults and imperfeccons therein,
               Wherefore Ordred that the deft doe put in a better Answere next
             Court, as alsoe his Rejoynder to the Replicacon of the Complts:

         Reymond Staplefort plt  Morecroft p quer.
         John Auery deft       Jenifer p defendt
               This Cause resplted from last Court, the plt sueing the defendt
             in an accon of the Case for three Thowsand Three hundred pounds
             of tob: The defendant puts in his plea as follö:
      [p.756] And the said John by Daniel Jenifer his Attorny Comes & defends
             the force & Injury when &c: and sayes that the aforesaid Reymd
             ought not to haue his accon aforesaid, for that whereas in the As-
             sembly of Caecilius &c at St Johns in St marys County wthin this
             Prouince the 4th day of march 1667 in the 16th yeare of his Dominion
             holden sett forth (amongst other things) it was enacted by the
             Authority of the same Assembly that noe Contracts or Other Reckon-
             ings upon Accompt Book or Otherwise then by specialty Onely wch
             shall bee aboue nine months Standing shall bee pleadeable in any
             Court wthin this Prouince except such as were before the end of
             the same Assembly Contracted as by the said Act may more fully
             appeare
               And the said John for plea further saith that long before the day
             of procuring the Originall writt agt him there was aboue nine months
             time Elapsed and past betwixt the time alleadged by the said Rey-
             mond in his Declaracon when the supposed Assumption by the said
             John was made and the sueing forth the said Originall writt and
             this hee is ready to auerre wherupon hee demandeth Judgmt if the
             aforesaid Reymond his accon aforesaid against him ought to haue &c:
                                                    Jenifer

               The aforesaid Act being allowed by the Court for a Sufficient plea
             in Barr to the plaintiffs declacon Judgmt past by the Board for the
             defendt against the plaintiffe

         John Auery plaintiffe Morecroft p quer.
         Eliz: Brook Admx of   Jenifer p defendant
              Rob:     Brook defendant
               Ordered last Court that the deft should make her appearance to
             this Court and bring wth her all papers relateing to the perfecting of
             her Accompt in and Concerning the Estate of her said deceased hus-
             band and that she doe then deliuer in a perfect Acct of the same
               The defendt hauing appear'd accordingly doth now Exhibite into
             Court an Accompt of the sd Estate which being not formall and
             according to Method, Nor producing Copyes of those Orders which
             past against the said Estate in the County Court