572        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1670.

        Liber jj   Province by Henry Sewell Cheife Officer for the Probate of wills &
              Grantinge of Adthistracons within the said Province Lawfully Con-
              stituted Appointed & Authorized to the said Henry Hooper Comitted
              & Appointed Administrator of the Goods & Chattles of Richard Gott
              Deed whereby the said Henry Hooper became Lawfully Invested in
              the said Estate, as is aforesaid, They the said William Burgis Thomas
              Taylor & Samuell Chew Togeather with Richard Ewen the Nyneteenth
              day of November in the Thirty fifth yeare of the Dominion of Cae-
              cilius &c Annoq One Thousand six Hundred & sixty six by force of
              Armes to the Howse of the said Richard att Herringe Creeke in the
              County of Ann Arundell in A menacinge came by prtence & Color
              of an Order of Cort to Impower them to Come there & to accquire an
              Accountt of Estate tht the said Richard Gott of & from the said Henry
              wch the said Henry Refusinge to give them unless they the said
              William Burges Thomas Taylor & Samuell Chew would shew them
              their Comission to Authorise them thereunto Did give Order to John
              Ewen to take out of the Possession of the said Henry the said Estate
              wch there by Increase was Come to the Nomber of sixty Heade of
              Cattle web weere then in the possesion of the said Henry without any
              Legall Tryall thereuppon had or by any Law or Comission Contrary
              to the Forme & Effect of the said Act of Magna Charta out of the
              Possession of the said Henry did take & Wrest in Contempt of the
              said Act as by the said Act it doeth att Large more Appeare to the
              Greate damage of the said Henry, whereuppon he sayeth he is Damp-
              nifyed & hath Loss to the vallue of Fifty Thousand poundes of
              Tobaccoe & thereuppon he bringeth his suite And the said henry
              doeth bringe in Cort heere the said Letters of Adrhistracon that it may
              appeare to the Cort That he hath the Adthistracon thereof.
                And the said William Thomas & Samuell by Robert Carvile their
              Attorny Come & Defend the force & Injury when &c, And say they
        [p.   are in noe wise Guilty of the Trespass & Breach of the Act above agt
              them by the said henry Complayned of, And of this they putt them-
              selves uppon the Country And the said Henry likewise.
                Thereuppon Comand is given to the sherriffe of St Maryes County
              That he Cause to come heere before the Justices of the Provinciall
              Cort att St Maries uppon the Thirteenth day of December next Twelve
              Honest & Law full men of the said Province of Maryland by whome
              the Trueth of the matter may be the better knowne & which neither to
              the said Henry Hooper Plt nor the said William Burgis, Thomas
              Taylor & Samuell Chew Defts by any Affinity doe Relate to make a
              Certaine Jury of the said Province betweene the said Parties in A
              Plea of Trespasse uppon the Case for that Asweii the skid Henry
              Hooper As the said William Burgis Thomas Taylor & Samuell Chew
              have putt themselves uppon A Jury.
                Afterwards the day & yeare within Conteyned before Charles
              Calvert Esqr Cheife Justice & other his Associates Justices of the