Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673/4. 209




       Seaventy Two pounds of Tobacco his Debt aforesd, as also the Liber MM
       sume of three hundred and forty pounds of Tobacco Costs and the
       sd John in mercy &c.
       Raymond Stapleford        .
                    The Defend put in his plea this Court and p. 146
         agt Ithis Cause continued untill the next Court.
   John Bailey


      John Litchington Luke Gardner gentt Sheriff of the County of
           agt St Maryes was suthoned to answere unto John
    Luke Gardner  Litchington of a plea that he Rendr unto him One
                  hundred & Twenty pounds sterling & six hundred
                  and fifty pounds of Tobacco wch to him he oweth
                  & unjustly Deteyneth.

        And whereupon the said John Litchington by Kenelm Chiseldyne
       his Attorney saith that whereas the said John Litchington formerly
       that is to say at a Provincial Court held on the 11th day of ffebruary
       in the 41th yeare of the Right honoble Caecilius absolute Lord and
       Proprietary of this Province before the Justices of the said Lord
       Proprietary at the said Citty of St Maryes thereunto assigned by
       Kenelm Chiseldyn his Attorney Came & brought then there in the
       sd Court his Certeine action agt one John Maltby in a plea of Trespas
       on the Case the Tenor whereof followeth in these words.
        Comaund was given to the Sheriff of St Maryes County that he
       should take John Maltby late of St Maryes County Marchant and
       him safely Keepe yt he may have his body before the Justices
       of the Provincial Court to be holden at the Citty of St Maryes the
       11th day of ffebruary next to answere unto John Litchington of a
       plea of Trespas on the case at wch sd day Came aswell the sd John
       Litchington by Keneim Chiseldyne his Attorney as the sd Maltby
       in his pp pson by the Sheriff of the County aforesayd brought to
       the barre and the sd Sheriff now Retornes that he tooke the body
       of the said Defendt, and that he now had him ready, upon wch the
       said Defendt being ordered by the Court here to put in speciall
       Bayle in the sd Court here to answere the sd action & pay the Con
       demnacon or rendr his body to the Keep of the prison of the Lord
       Proprietary if he should in ye said action be Convict, the sd Defendt
       Rendered himself to ye prison aforesayd upon which the said John
       Maltby is by the Court Comitted to the sd prison therefor to Re
       maine untill he shall pforme the sd ordr.
        John Maltby late of St Maryes Citty Marchant was attached to
       answere unto John Litchington in a plea of Trespas upon the Case.
        And whereupon the said John Litchington by Kenelm Chiseldyne
       his Attorney Complaineth that whereas the sd John Maltby the 13 th
       day of December in the yeare of our Lord 1671. at New Yorke