Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669. 607

       The Jurors for the Lord Proprietary doe present That Thomas Liber JJ [p.464]
      Manning of the Clifts in the County of Calvert Gent the twentith
      day of August in the eight and thirtith yeare of his Lordshipps
      Dominion att the Clifts in the County aforesaid was and yet is a
      Comon Barretor, a daily and publique disturber of the peace of the
      said Lord Proprietary a coñion and turbulent Calumniator, a Re-
      proacher a fighter a sower of strifes and discord amongst his neigh-
      bours so that he hath moved procured and Stirred up divers Strifes
      brawlings and fightings then and there and at Other places elsewhere
      amongst the good people of the Lord Proprietary to the great dis-
      turbance of the peace of the said Lord Proprietary contrary to his
      rule and dignity.
       And afterwards to witt the twentith day of December in the yeare
      aforesaid the said Thomas Manning being called to answer to the
      said presentment came and the same being read the said Thomas
      Manning humbly Submitted himself e to the judgment of the Court,
      which said Court Ordered that the said Thomas Manning remaine
      in the Custody of the sheriff of st Maries County untill he give Suf-
      ficient Suertyes to his Lordshipp for his good abearance during his
      life.
       And afterwards to witt the One and twentith day of the same
      December in the yeare aforesaid came the said Thomas Manning
      with Sampson Warring and Joseph Horsley who undertooke for the
      said Thomas Manning and the said Thomas Manning did here ac-
      knowledge to owe to the Lord Proprietary the summe of fifty pounds
      of lawfull mony of England and the said Sampson Warring and
      Joseph Horsley the summe of five and twenty pounds of like law-
      full mony of England each person to be made of their Goods Chat-
      tells lands or Tenements for the use of the said Lord Proprietary
      if that the said Thomas Manning dureing his life doe not well abeare
      himselfe towards his said Lordshipp and all other the good people of
      this Province of Maryland.

       Memorandum That On the nine and twentith day of November
      in the xxxviiith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom
      One thousand six hundred sixty nine Humphry Limbrey of Calvert
      County merchant being bound by recognizance to his Lordshipp the
      Lord Proprietary in the summe of forty pounds sterling for his
      appearance before his Lordshipps justices of the Provinciall Court
      the fourtenth day of December in the yeare aforesaid to prosecute a
      certaine information to be then exhibited against Richard Bayley,
      And afterwards to witt the flftenth day of the same December in the
      yeare aforesaid came into Court aswell the said Humphry Limbrey
      as the said Richard Bayly in their proper persons, and the said Hum-
      phry Limbrey refuseing to prosecute the said Richard Bayly, it is the