42   Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672.




           Liber J J  being asleepe yor petr being much Damnifyed for the want of his
                 Sloope & goods humbly Craves yot Excellencyes ordr for the Restau
                 ration of ye said goods and Sloope with Damages and as in Deauty
                 bound shall pray.

                 Maryland ss Memorandum that this prsent Day to wit upon the
                 7th day of October 1672 came Thomas Jones who aswell on the
                 behalfe of the Right honoble the Lord Propiy as for himself giveth
                 the Court here prsent to undrstand and be informed.
                   That whereas he the said Thomas Jones who aswell &c being one
                 of his Lopps Justices for the County of Worcester having Received
                 information that one Peter Hance a Dutchman had imported into
                 this Province from New yorke six Mares Contrary to the Act of
                 Assembly in that case made and provided the said Thomas who
                 aswell &c did upon the 24th day of August last past at the Hore Keele
                 in Worcester County aforesayd caused ye said six Mares to be seized
                 & taken into his possession in the behalfe of the Right honoble the
                 Lord Propry, and the said Thomas who aswell &c in fact saith that
                 the said six mares were brought from New Yorke & imported into
                 this Province contrary to ye said Act aforesayd which he is ready
                 to averre & prove, whereupon he humbly prayes the Advice of this
                 honoble Court & Judgemt for the Condemnation of ye said six Mares
                 & that the one halfe of ye said Mares may be adjudged to the said
                 Lord Proprietary and the other halfe to ye sd Jones according to
                 the Tenor of ye said Act of Assembly. Tho Jones.

                   Upon the said In formation Exhibited to ye Cort by the said
                 Thomas Jones in his proper pson the Court awarded processe to
                 be issued to the said John Hance to answere ye prmises. etc the
                 next Cort.
            The Cort Adjourned untill the Tenth of Decemb next

             p. 513   Maryland ss. Memorandum that this Eighth day of October in
                 the 41th yeare of the Dominion of the Rt hono :ble Caecilius &c
                 Annoque Domini 1672 psonally apeared before us Philip Calvert
                 Esq Chancelor of this Province and Baker Brooke Esq one of the
                 Justices of the Provinciall Court James Lewis of the County of
                 St Maryes planter George Charlesworth of the same County planter
                 and Philip Shapleigh of Dorchester County planter, and the said
                 James Lewis did acknowledge himself to owe & stand indebted to
                 the Right honoble the Lord Proprietary in the sume of Tenn Thou
                 sand pounds of Tobacco and Casque, to be Leavyed of his lands
                 goods Debts & Chattells and the said George Charlesworth and Philip
                 Shapleigh, did Either of them by himself acknowledge to owe & be
                 indebted to the said Lord Propry the sume of five Thousand pounds