2 16      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673/4.

         Liber M M  penny thereof then being altogether unsatisfyed by wch an accön
                 doth accrue unto the sd John Litchington to Require & have of the
                 said Luke the sd 200001 Tob & 6501 Tob costs of suite Notwthstand
                 ing wch the sd Luke though often Required the sd sume of 20650l
                 Tob hath not pd to the sd John Litchington but the same to him to
                 pay hath altogether refused & still doth Refuse whereupon he saith
                 he is Damnifyed and hath losse to the vallue of 40000l Tob & there
                 upon he bringeth his suite.
                  And the sd Luke Gardner by Robert Carvile his Attorney Cometh
                 & Defendeth the force & injury when &c and saith that he the sd
                 Luke doth not owe unto the sd John the sd sume of 20650l Tob or
                 any Pt thereof in manner & forme as the sd John hath above Declared
                 agt him and of this he puts himself upon the Country and the sd
                 John Litchington likewise.
                  Therefore Comaund is given unto the Coronr of St Maryes
                 County that he Cause to Come before the Justices of the next Pro
                 vincial Court twelve &c by whome &c who neither &c because aswell
                 &c to Recognize &c and the same day is given to both ptyes
                  At wch day that is to say the tenth day of ffebruary in the 42th
                 yeare of ye Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1673. before
                 the said Justices Came the said Defendt Luke Gardner by Robert
                 Carvile his Attorney & the said pfl John Litchington being solemnly
                 Called to psecute his said writ appeared not whereupon the said
                 Deft Craved a Nonsuite might be awarded agt him; and the Court
                 ordered the same, wherefore it is Considered by the Court that the
                 sd John Litchington lose his writ in this behalfe sued out and have
                 no benefit thereby and that the sd Luke Gardner Recover agt the
                 sd John Litchington the sume of pounds of Tobacco
                 for his Costs and Charges in this behalf e Expended and the said
                 John in mercy for his false Complaint

                John Charlesworth Mathias Decosta late of St Maryes County
                     agt planter was suthoned to answere unto John
              Mathias Decosta Charlesworth in a plea of Trespas upon the
                              case
                  And whereupon the sd John by Kenelm Chiseldyne his Attorney
                 Complaineth yt whereas the sd Mathias the day of
                           in the yeare of our Lord 1672 Depted this Province
                 and left George Charlesworth of the sd County his Attorney genrally
                 to act & Doe for the said Mathias in his absence what the said
                 George should thinke fit & Convenient, the sd George Charlesworth
                 afterwards to wit the 10th day of March in the yeare aforesayd
                 did by Articles of agreemt undr hand & seale Covenant & Agree
                 wth the sd John Charlesworth as an Overseere to looke after & take
                 Charge of what servants stock and Cattle and other thinges wch was
                 then upon the plantation of the sd Mathias and by the sd writing the