220Provincial Court Proceedings, 16 73/4.




        Liber M M   Twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c because aswell &c to Recog
                nize &c.

                  At wch day that is to say the 10th Day of ffebruary in the 42th
                year of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1673. Came
                aswell the sd John Wells who aswell &c by Vincent Low his Attorney
                as the said Thomas Chandler & Wm Russell by George Parker their
                Attorney and the Jurors of that Jury likewise Came to wit William
                Groome Edmond Webb Vincent Atchinson John Nuthall James
                Nuthall Michael Miller Thomas Walker Henry Jowles Robert
                Waterson John Wright Jonathan Squire and John Charlesworth who
                to say the truth in the prmises being elected tryed & sworne upon
                their oathes doe say that they finde the Informacon agt the sd Russell
                and Chandler to be True, whereupon it is Considered by the Court
                here that the said Thomas Chandler & William Russell Doe forfeit
                the [price] of the liquors Charged to account in the informacon
                aforesayd as also that the [sd] John Wells who aswell &c Recover
                agt the said Thomas & William the sd sume of six Thousand five
            p. 156  hundred pounds of Tobacco in the sd informacon aforesayd spece
                fyed, the one Moyety thereof to the Right honoble the Lord Proprie
                tary, the other moyety to the said John Wells as informer due to
                him according to act of Assembly in this Case pvided and that the
                said John Wells Recover of the said Thomas & William the Sume
                of Seven hundred Seventy Six pounds of Tobacco more for his Costs
                & Charges by him Expended in and about the psecution of the
                aforesd informacon and the sayd William & Thomas in mercy &c.

                John Wells    To the Justices of the Provincial Court.
                   agt
                              Be it Remembred that John Wells who aswell
                 Thomas Chandler &         .        .
                   for the Lord Proprietary as for himself in this
                 William Russell
                   behalfe psecutes Came before Philip Calvert
                Esq one of the Justices of the said Provincial Court the 20th day
                of October in the yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c in his
                pp pson and aswell for the said Lord Proprietary as for himself
                giveth the Court here to understand and be informed that Thomas
                Chandler and Wm Russell of Ann Arundell County Ordinary Keeps
                between the third day of Aprill in the 41th yeare of the Domin
                ion of Caecilius &c aforesayd & ye ninth day of August yn next
                following did utter sell and Charge to accompt to one Certeine
                Robert Wells at seurall times diverse and seurall sorts of liquors
                as syder Rum and sack mixed with sugr not Expressing or set
                ting downe the seurall Ingredients to the said mixture according
                to the Rates by act of Assembly limited to wit Two gallons of syder
                and sugr one gallon of syder and sugar one gallon of syder and sugr
                three Pottles of syder and sugr One pottle of syder and sugr two
                gallons of syder and sugr. one gallon of syder and sugr one pottle