158  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.




         Liber M M   the said Thomas hath above Declared agt him and of this he puts
                 himself upon the Country, and the said Thomas Jones likewise
                   Therefore Comaund is given to the Sheriff of St Maryes County
                 that he cause to come before the Justices of the Provincial Cort at
                 the Citty of St Maryes on the Eleaventh day of November next being
                 the first day of the same Cort twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c
                 because aswell &c to Recognize &c and the same day is given to
                 both ptyes. At which said Eleaventh day of November the Provin
                 cial Court aforesayd was by the writ of Adjournmt of the said Lord
                 Proprietary adjourned untill the next day being the Twelveth day
                 of the same November.
                   At wch said twelveth day of November in the 42th yeare of the
                 Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1673. came aswell the
                 said Thomas Jones in his pp pson as the said Mathew Nelson by
                 John Rousby his Attorney and the Jurors of that Jury likewise came
                 to wit Thomas Knighton Thomas Griffen Curtis ifletcher William
                 Baker Abell James John Waghob Leonard Greene Thomas Courtney
                 Abraham Roades Joseph Brough John Bayley and Vincent Atchin
                 son who to say the truth in the prmises being elected tryed and
                 sworne and having heard the proofes of both sides Retired from
                 the barre to consider of their verdict and retorning imediately into
                 Cort againe to Deliver up their verdict & the ptyes being called to
                 heare ye the same the defendt appeared not yet notwithstanding the
                 Cort Demaunding their verdict the said Jurors upon their oathes doe
                 say that they finde for the plt his debt with costs of suite, wherefore
                 it is considered by the Cort here that the said Thomas Jones Recover
                 agt the said Mathew Nelson aswell the said sume of Twelve hundred
                 pounds of Tobacco his debt aforesayd as also the sume of One thou
                 sand and eight pounds of Tobacco for his costs & Charges in this
                 behalfe Expended and the said Mathew in mercy &c.

              p. 96 Nicholas Carre & Sarah his wife Toby Miles late of Calvert County
                     agt              planter was Attached to answere
                 Toby Miles              unto Nicholas Carre and Sarah his
                                      wife of a plea of Trespas.
                   And whereupon the said Nicholas and Sarah by John Morecroft
                 their Attorney Complay [ne] that whereas by the Law & Custome of
                 the nation of England Every man is alwayes bound safely and
                 securely to Keepe his Cattle and Chattells least by Cattle to men &
                 women living Creatures & Chattells hurt or damage should any wayes
                 happen to his Neighbors. Notwithstanding the said Tobyas the 28th
                 day of ffebruary in the yeare of our Lord 1670 at the Clifts in Cal
                 vert County aforesayd by force and armes Knowingly did Keepe
                 a certeine Dog accustomed to byte people, and so negligently and
                 unduly did Keepe that dog that the said Dog the said Eight &