Charles County Court Proceedings, 1674.  583

      Whereof the Edmund (by John Jones his Atturney) com- Liber F
     plaines, whereas hee in the moneth of June (1672) was possessed
     of a Certaine mare of his proper goods, & soe being thereof possesst,
     the sd mare out of his hands & possession Causually lost, which mare
     afterwards into the hands of the sd Thomas came, who well knew
     the sd mare to be the proper goods of him the sd Edmund, & to the
     sd Edmund of right to belong & appertaine, fraudulently intending
     the sd Edmund in that behalfe to deceive, the sd mare though often
     required, hath not delivered but the mare aforesd to his own propr
     use & profitt, & her encrease allsoe hath Converted & disposed to the
     losse of him the sd Edmund, three thousand pounds of tobaccoe, &
     thereof bringes his suite
      And the sd Thomas Allanson comes in his own proper person &
     defends the force & injury & sayth hee is not gilty & deteines not the
      mare of Edmund Lindsey
      John Munnes sworne & examined in open Court sayth hee see
     William Nevill deliver this mare to Edmund Lindsey which is now in
     the possession of Thomas Allanson, & further this Deponent sayth
     John Watters Caused Edward Knight to marke a mare for him, &
     further sayth not
      James Smallwood sworne & examined in open Court sayth that
     hee was imployed by Edmund Lindsey to goe with into the woods &
     when they came to Chekimoxon to John Watters house, his wife
     told them her husband had gott up two mares, & hee had marked
     Edmunds instead of his own, & tht Edmund should have his instead
     of his own which was five hundred pounds of Tobaccoe better worth,
     which is the mare now in the possession of Thomas Allanson & further
     sayth not
      After examination of the Wittnesses the Worshipfull the Court
     Was pleased to put it upon the Countrey, a Jury being impanelled,
     viz John Wright Foreman, Raiph Shaw Robert Castleton, Henry
     Barnes, Robert Clarke, James Keech, Henry Hardy, Richard Dodd,
     Joseph Bulloit, William Harguesse, Philip Browne, George Taylor,
     Which jury brought in this ensueing verdict, Wee finde for the
     plaintiffe with cost of suite
      Which bill of cost is here Entrd.
                                         th tobacTo Atturneys Fees                                To the Jury                                      120
     To Edmund Lindseyes attendance 2 Crts two dayes at 30
                                            060
      John Munns Edward Price & James Smallwood to Come-
      inge & goeing & attendance two Courts two dayes apeice
      at 30 lb p day                       360
                                      Sume 740