Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.     151

        safely Keepe so that he might have his body before the Justices of Liber M M
        the same Provincial Cort the Eighth day of Aprill then next coming
        to answere unto John Brookes of a plea that he render unto him
        the sume of 1800l Tob wch to him he oweth and unjustly Deteineth
        at wch said Eighth day of Aprill the said Sheriff retorned to ye
        Justices here at St Maryes that he cannot take the body of ye said
        Humphry Keitly because he abscondeth himself whereupon the said
        John Brookes prayes the Cort here that an Attachmt against the
        goods and Chattells of him the said Humphry Keitly might be
        awarded according to the forme and effect of a certeine Act of As
        sembly in this case made and provided and it was graunted unto
        him It was therefore comaunded unto the said Sheriff that he at
        tach any of the goods Chattells or debts of or belonging to the said
        Humph[ry] Keitly in whose hands soever they should be found to
        the vallue of the 24001 Tobo at the leaste and when he hath attached
        the vallue aforesayd or any pt the[reof] that the same he Keepe
        safe in his Custody untill the said Humphry Keitly himself or his
        Attorney appeare before the Justices of the said Provincial Cort to
        be held at the said Citty of St Maryes the Tenth day of ffebruary
        next to answere the sd John Brookes in the plea aforesayd and in
        wt manner he shoud Execute the sd writ that he should retorne
        to the sd Justices together wth the sd writ at the day and place
        aforesaid.

       ffrancis   Holland Henry Beedle and Sophia his wife late of Ann p. 89
             agt Arundell County was attached to answere unto
     Henry Beedle & ux ffrancis Holland in a plea of trespas and
                     Ej ectmL.
         And whereupon the said ffrancis by Keneim Chiseldine his At
        torney complaineth that whereas George Wells gentt the Two and
        Twentieth day of October in the one and fortieth yeare of the Do
        minion of Caecilius &c did demise to him the said ffrancis Holland
        aswell all that pcell of Land comonly called and Knowne by the name
        of little Wells lyeing and being in Ann Arundell County aforesayd
        and in the woods betweene ffishing and Herring Creeke bay begin
        ning at a marked white Oake in the line of the land called Wells and
        bounding on the Easte with a line Drawne south One hundred and
        sixteene pches to a marked white Oake in the line of the land of
        Anthony Salloway by a slash side bounding on the south with the
        said Sallowayes land and Running west and by North for the length
        of One hundred ninety six pches to a marked Oake being the Corner
        Tree of the said Sallowayes land, bounding on the West with a line
        Drawne North to the land of Wells fifty perches bounding on the
        North with the said Land running Easte and by North one hun
        dred and ninety five pches to the first marked Oake Conteyning
        by Estimacoñ one hundred acres more or lesse as also all that other