150 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.




         Liber M M   subscribe his name to the Receipt within mentioned for the servants
                 withnamed wch he Delivered to George Wells and beleives he hath
                 a Receipt from George Wells for the said servants but for want
                 of his booke he cannot positively Declare the same to be so.
                                             Sworne before me
                                                  Philip Calvert.

                 John     Brookes Humphry Kitely late of Ann Arundell County
                     agt otherwise called Humphry Kitely of Charles
               Humphry Kitely. County Coop was summoned to answere unto
                             John Brooks in a plea that he Render to him the
                             sume of Eighteene hundred pounds of Tobacco
                             wch to him he oweth and unjustly Deteineth.
                  And whereupon the said John by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                 saith that whereas the said Humphrey upon the 13th day of August
                 in the yeare of our Lord 1668 by his certeine writing obligatory wch
                 the said John with the seale of him the said Humphry signed here
                 bringeth into Court whose date is the day & yeare abovesaid did
                 acknowledge himself to owe and stand indebted unto the said John
                 Brookes in the said suth of 1800l of good Tob in Caske to be payd
                 to the sd John his heires Executors Admrs or assignes in some con
                 venient place in Charles County at or upon the Tenth day of Novem
              p. 88  ber next Ensueing the date of the said writing obligatory, To the
                 which payment well and truly to be made he did binde himself his
                 heires Executors and Admrs firmly by those prsents Yet notwith
                 standing the said Humphrey the said sume of Eighteene hundred
                 pounds of Tobacco to him the said John though often Demanded
                 hath not contented or payd but the same to pay as yet doth Deny &
                 unjustly Deteyne whereupon the said John saith he is Damnifyed
                 and hath losse to the vallue of Two thowsand five hundred pounds
                 of Tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                  And now here at this day to wit the Eighth day of Aprill in the
                 41th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1673.
                 Henry Stocket gentt high Sheriff of the County of Ann Arundell
                 retorned to the Justices here at St Maryes that he cannot take the
                 body of the said Humphry Keitly because he abscondeth himself
                 whereupon the said John Brookes prayes the Cort here that an at
                 tachmt agt the goods and Chattells of him the said Humphry Keitly
                 might be awarded according to the forme and Effect of a certeine
                 Act of Assembly in that case made and provided and it was graunted
                 unto him. Therefore comaund is given to the Sheriff of Ann Arundell
                 County that whereas a certeine capias issueing out of the Provincial
                 Court retornable before the Justices of the same Court the Eighth
                 day of Aprill 1673. Directed by ye sd Sheriff of Ann Arundell
                 County thereby Comanding him ye sd Sheriff to take the body of
                 Humphry Keitly if he should be found within his baliwick and him