610       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669—70.

        Liber JJ   thousand six hundred sixty nine the Jurors for the said Lord Pro-
              prietary doe present Charles Ashcomb and John Seawall Overseers
              of the Highwayes for neglecting to make the Highwayes passable,
              therefore it was comanded the Sheriff of Calvert County that he
              cause to come here to witt the eighth day of February in the yeare
              aforesaid the said Charles Ashcomb and John Sewall to answer the
              premisses, and afterwards to witt the ninth day of February afore-
              said in the yeare aforesaid came the said Charles Ashcomb in his
              proper person and the said presentment being read humbly submitts
              to the judgment of the Court whereupon Ordered by his Lopps
              justices here that the said Charles Ashcomb be fined for the neglect
              aforesaid the quantity of two thousand pounds of tobacco accord-
              ing to Act of Assembly in that case made and provided, And upon
              the prayer of the said John Seawell Ordered he be dismist.

                Memorandum that the ninth day of February in the xxxviiith yeare
              of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came Adam Head of St Maries
              County with Thomas Hatton and John Camell and undertooke for
              the said Adam Head, and the said Adam Head did acknowledge to
              owe to his Löpp the summe of ten pounds of lawfull mony of Eng-
              land and the said Thomas Hatton and John Camell five pounds of
              like mony apeice &c if the said Adam Head doe not make his personall
              appearance before his Lopps justices here to witt the eightenth day of
              October next and in the meane tyme that he be not of good abearance
              towards his Lopp and the good people of this province.

                Upon Complaint made to his Lopps justices here to witt the ninth
              day of February in the xxxviiith yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c
              Annoq Doth One thousand six hundred sixty nine by Jonas Green-
              wood of divers abuses done by James Godscrosse his master, Ordered
              that the said James Godscrosse Jonas Greenwood and the witnesses
              be sumoned to the County Court of Calvert County and that the buis-
              nesse be there determined and in the meane time that the said James
              Godscrosse use the said servant well, and that the said Court doe
              take particular Care aswell in this buisnesse as all other abuses to
              servants by their masters.

                Upon Complaint made to his Löpps justices here to witt the ninth
              day of February in the xxxviiith yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c
              by William Bretton Gent that Robert Pennywell had brook the glasse
              windowes at the Chappell at St Maries which said Robert Pennywell
              appeareing in his proper person in the Custody of the sheriff of St
              Maries County and Garret Vansweringeen Marke Cordea and John
              Balley wittnesses to speake the truth in the premisses likewise, came,
              And it is Comanded by the same justices to the said Sheriff that he