104  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.






            Liber M M     William Calvert & The Sheriff of Baltamore County being in
                 Thomas Notley mercy five pounds unless he brought the De
                      agt     fendt this Cort, and not bringing him was by the
             Philip Holleger  Cort amerced five pounds to the Lord Proprie
                              tary and is also in mercy amercing Tenn pounds
                              stert unless he bring him ye next Cort.

                Tho Hawkins    Garrat Vanswearingen and Christopher
                      agt Rousby Attornyes of Alexandr Dyhiniossa
                 Christopher Rousby & late of Calvert County gentt, was sumãned
                 Garrat Vanswearingenf to answere unto Thomas Hawkins of a plea
                                 that he the said Alexandr Dyhiniossa
                                 Render unto him the sume of Ninety
                                 pounds six shillings sterling and foure
                                 thowsand nine hundred seaventy and three
                                 pounds of Tobacco which to him he oweth
                                 and unjustly Deteineth.
                   And whereupon the said Thomas by Kenelm Chiseldine his At
                 torney saith that whereas the said Thomas the Eighth day of Aprill
                 in the yeare One Thowsand six hundred and seaventy was Comis
                 sionated Constituted and authorized by the same Alexandr Dihiniossa
                 to be his bayliffe and Overseere for the yeare 1670 upon Poplar
                 Island to Manage the bus ines of the said Alexandr in all thinges
                 that in his Discretion he should thinke necessary to be done on and
                 about the plantation there as building of howses necessary and
                 Convenient Governing all the servants then and there and that should
                 be there hereafter and the same servants to be obedient to him, and
                 at his comand to doe all thinges the said Thomas should thinke fit,
                 in Consideration whereof the said Thomas was to have for his wages
                 and sallary for the said first yeare, Twenty pounds sterling and for
                 Every yeare after the said Thomas, should Continue as Bayliffe or
                 Overseere the sume of thirty pounds sterling by the yeare, with
                 allowance of all paymts charges & Disbursemts, that the said Thomas
                 should make lay out and disburse in any manner or way for the
                 necessary affayres of ye said plantation and for the better managemt
                 thereof and the said Thomas in fact saith that he the said Thomas
                 did the twentieth day of Aprill in the yeare 1670 Enter upon the
              p. 40 said plantation and Island, and did then take upon him the further
                 Charge of a bayliff as Bayliff to the said Alexandr and according
                 to his best Cunning and skill and Knowledge did as Bayliff to the
                 said Alexandr, governe the servants and make Crops of Tobacco,
                 build all necessary houses and Doe all other thinges necessary and
                 fit to be done to and for ye uses of the said Alexandr And the said
                 Alexandr or his Attornyes for his use, had and Received yearly the
                 Crops of Tobacco made upon the said Island, and the said Thomas
                 saith he was bayliffe to the said Alexandr and Did Execute and