Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.  351




      his hands as also of the appraisment of the Said estate whereupon Liber M M
      the Petitioner (in consideration hereof) did give to the Said Edelen
      a bond of twenty thousand pounds of tobacco to Keepe harm!esse
      the Said Edelen from the Said Allen, That the petitioner hath Sev
      erall times been at the house of the Said Allen, & tendered his accompt
      accordingly faire and truly drawne up, & yet could never bring the
      Said Allen to allow thereof, & So deliver up the bond of Security of
      the of the Said Edelen in Somuch that the Said Edelen (notwith- p. 264
      standing he hath never beene molested or troubled or Susteined the
      least losse or damage by the Said Allen) hath unjustly procured a
      judgment of the Provinciall Court upon the petitioners bond of
      twenty thousand pounds of tobacco & hath also Served execution for
      the Same upon the body of the petitioner to his exceeding wrong
      prejudice and damage and thereupon prayed that his accompt may
      be Speedily examinded audited and allowed by this Court or by his
      Honour the Chancellour and that hereupon the Said Allen be con
      streined to deliver up his Said bond or at least that the execution
      may be Suspended untill Such time as by a Special Order from the
      Chancellour the Said Allen may be compelled to come to an accompt
      before his Honour to putt an end to this difference.
        Whereupon it is Ordered that the Said James Thompson be Kept
      in the Custody of the Sheriff and that the Said John Allen be cited
      to accompt with the Comissary Generall and that he doe therein that
      which to justice appurteine.

      John Mayo
                  the deft s by Robert Ridgely their Attorny appeare
          agt       imparles untill next Court.
      Wm Stacey & ux
      Andrew Higgs
                  the def by Robert Carvile his Attorny appeare
          agt       imparle untill next Court.
      Robert Wollerton
      Henry Phippes admr
      Edward Maynard the deft appeares by Thomas Bland his At
          agt       torny & imparle untill next Court.
      Robert Proctor
      Robert Ellis Henry Parker late of Talbot County otherwise called
         agt Henry Parker of Talbott County in the Province of
    Henry Parker     Maryland Gent was Summoned to answer unto Rob
                ert Ellis of a plea that he render unto him One thou
                sand Six hundred pounds of tobacco which to him he
                oweth and unjustly deteineth.
        And whereupon the Said Robert by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At
      torny Saith that whereas the Said Henry Parker the 12th day of
      April in the 40th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Doth
      1672 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of
      the Said Henry here in Court produced whose date is the Same