356       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.

        Liber M M   named defts instead of the casuall ejector to try the title of a parcell
                of land in dispute betweene the Said Thomas Corcker and the Said
                George God fry & Mary his wife & the Court finding it necessary that
                the due lines & bounds of both persons lands be Surveyed by a Skill
                ful person according to their respective Deeds from Clement Theo
                balds of Charles County planter & yt a faire plott & Certificate thereof
                be returned by the Court is is by the Court this day Ordered that
                the Honble Baker Brooke Esq Surveyour Genll or his Deputy Sur
                veyour for the Said County of Charles County be especially ap
                pointed by this Court & are hereby appointed impowered & Comãnded
                to lay Out the lands of the Said Thomas Corcker & George Godfry
                & Mary his wife late the land of John Paine deceased & to runn Out
                the true lines & Sett Out their meets & bounds according to their
                respective deeds from the Said Clement Theobalds in the presence
                of the Sheriff of Charles County who is hereby comanded & im
                powerd to Sumön & impannell a jury upon the Said land & to ex
                amine witnesses upon Oath that the truth of the matter may be fully
                discovered & the Said Surveyor Genll or his Deputy is hereby Ordered
                to run his lines according to evidence then given & the direction of
                the jury and to returne a Certificate of his proceedings herein & a
                faire plott distinctly drawne of the Lands in question together with
                the evidence that was Sworne to the next Provinciall Court to be
                held at St Maries the eighth day of December next attested under
                the hand & Seale aswell of the Said Surveyour Generall or his Deputy
                as of the Said Sheriff & the jurors that So his Loppes justices here
                being fully informed of the truth of the premisses may due therein
                as to justice Shall appurteine. And the Said Thomas Corcker at
                whose request this Order was granted is to be at the present charge
                of the present Survey & other the proceedings thereupon & to be
                allowed the same againe at the tryall, if this Court shall So thinke fitt.

               Marmaduke Semme Jonathan Squire late of St Maries County
                     agt Administrator of all & Singular the goods and
                 Jonathan Squire admr Chattells of John Morecroft late of St Maries
                  John Morecroft County Gent deceased was attached to answer
                               Marmaduke Semme in a plea of trespas upon
                               the case.
                  And whereupon the Said Marmaduke by George Oldfeild his
                Attorny complaineth that whereas the Said John Morecroft in his
                life time to witt the 28th day of November 1673 was indebted to
                the Said Marmaduke in the full Sume or quantity of foure thousand
                and Six hundred pounds of tobacco and caske for Severall goods
                and merchandizes to him the Said John before that time Sold and
                delivered And the Said Marmaduke in fact Saith that the Said
                Summe of foure thousand and Six hundred pounds of tobacco the
                Said John in his life time nor the Said Jonathan Since his death