Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673/4.  227




      sd Demetrius of the Court here prayeth attachmt agt his goods &c Liber M M
      according to act of Assembly. and it is by the Court here graunted
      unto him Retornable ye next Provincial Court & the same day is
      given to both ptyes.

      Demetrius Cartwright In this Cause the Sheriff of Calvert County
            agt having made no Retorne of the writ, and the
      Rowland Anderson plt alledging that the said Defendt was ar
      rested, Mr Robert Carvile one of the Attornyes of this Court, Did
      informe this Court, that the Sheriff of Calvert County tould him
      that he had left a writ at home, wch he should have Retorned & that
      the sd Sheriff was gone to fetch it, and the Court beleiving that it
      might be this writ agt Anderson; Ordered by the Court here that
      unlesse the sd Anderson appeare next Court in pp pson or by At
      torney that the sd Sheriff be amerced 40s.

      John Offley Comaund was given to the Sheriff of Dorchester
        agt s County that he should take Richard Meekins date
      Richard Meekins of Dorchester County otherwise Called Rd Meek-
      ins, so that he might have his body before the Justices of the Pro
      vincial Court this prsent Tenth day of ffebruary to answere unto
      John Offley in a plea that he Rendr unto him the neate quantity of
      One Thowsand & fifty foure pounds of neate Porke wch to him he
      oweth & unjustly Deteineth.
        And whereupon the sd John Offley by Keneim Chiseldyne his
      Attorney saith that whereas the sd Richard Meekins upon the 16th
      day of October in the yeare of our Lord 1672 did by his Certeine
      writing obligatory sealed wth the seale of the sd Richard & here in
      Court pduced whose date is the same day & yeare abovewritten did
      binde himself to pay or Cause to be pd to the sd John Offley at his
      now Dwelling house in Patauxent River the neate quantity of Two
      hundred fifty foure pounds of neate Porke good Conditioned & in p. 163
      good ordr & whereas the sd Richard Meekins the 18th day of Novem
      ber in the yeare of our Lord 1672 did by his Certeine other bill
      obligatory Sealed with the seale of the said Richard here in Court
      pduced whose date is the same day & yeare aforesd did binde him
      self his heires Executors Admrs & assignes to pay or Cause to be
      payd unto the said John Officy his heires Executors Admrs or As
      signes the neate quantity of Eight hundred pounds of neate Porke
      to be pd at his owne landing, Notwthstanding wch the sd Richard
      Meekins the sd sume of Two hundred fifty foure pounds of porke
      pt of the sd 1054l of Porke though often thereunto Required hath
      not payd according to the Tenor of his said bill but the same denyes
      nor the sd 800l Porke residue of the sd 1054l Porke hath not pd
      according to the Tenor of his said other bill but the same to pay