Charles County Court Proceedings, 1674.  581

    divers & sundry parcells & potions of Physicke in all amounting Liber F
    to the suffie of foure hundred eighty nine pounds of Tobacco, as
    by a particular account here in Court produced more plainly may
    appeare, In Consideracon whereof the George did then assume
    on himselfe, & to the sd Nicholas did faithfully promise, tht hee
    the sd George unto the sd Nicholas when thereunto required the
    sd sume of 489 lb of Tobacco, although often thereunto required
    hath not satisfied neither to the sd Nicholas in his life time, nor
    to the John to whom Administration of all & singular the goods
    Chattles & Creditts of the Nicholas were Comitted since his
    death, whereupon the sd John sayth hee is damnified & hath lost to
    the value of six hundred pounds of Tobacco & thereupon hee bring-
    eth his Suite:
      The defendant George Taylor in his own proper person comes &
    defends the suite, & pleading an act of Assembly Intituled an act
    of Limitation for sundry Causes, It is ordered by the worshipfull
    the Court tht the defendant George Taylor have a nonsuite against
    the plaintiffe John Allen as AdrnT to the goods Chattles & Creditts
    of Nicholas Solby with cost of suite noe bill of Cost entered

      In a Cause depending Between John Allen as Admr to the goods [p.6]
    Chattles & Creditts of Nicholas Solby plaintiffe, & Stephen Gough
    Defendant, Mr Gough being not present himselfe, it ordered tht the
    action be referred till the next Court.
      Mr Allen being sick it is ordered tht all his other actions be referred
    till the next Court.

      In a Cause Depending between John Court plaintiffe on the behalf e
    of the Lord Proprietarie & himselfe & John Hartwell Defendant
      Bee it well remembred that the 11th day of August in the 43d yeare
    of the Dominion of Caecilius &c over this Province Annoq Domi
    1674 Comes here in Court John Courts planter, & exhibited here in
    Court his Certaine Information against John Hartwell of this
    County, the tenour of which information followeth in these words
    To the Worshipfull the Justices of Charles County,
      Bee it well remembred that John Courte planter who as well for
    the Lord Proprietarie as for himselfe in this Behalfe Comes here
    in Court the 11th day of August in the yeare aforesd by his Atturney
    Samuel Cressey, who as well for the Lord Proprietarie as for him-
    selfe, giveth here to be Informed that whereas by a Certaine act
    made at a generall Assembly held at St Maries on the 7th day of
    March Anno Domi (1671) it was then Enacted that noe person
    should Entertaine a servant being run away from his Masters service
    on night under paine of the Penalty in the Act generally expressed,
    Notwithstanding which the sd John Hartwell the Acts made by the
    Authority aforesd not reguarding nor the Penalty of the same at
    all fearing, at Portobacco in the County aforesd did (to wit) on the