420  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.




          Liber M M   pounds of tobacco for his costs & charges in that behalfe laid Out &
                  expended & the said John and Susanna in mercy.

                    Whereas I Justinian Gerard of St Maries County Gent am im
                  pleaded in the Provinciall Court by John Coode & Susanna his wife
                  in two severall actions of trespas upon the case I doe therefore
                  hereby impower & authorize my welbeloved freind Robert Ridgely
                  One of the Attorneyes of the said Court to appeare for me in both
                  the said actions and as my Attorny to plead for me non assumpsitt
                  or Otherwise as he shall thinke fitt & the same to defend to the
                  utmost of his skill & power and for so doeing this shall be his warrt
                  In witnesse whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the 18th of
                  September 1674.
                    Wittnes                   Jus Gerard (Seale.)
                  Jno Blomfeild
                               Robert Cole.

                       p.421 December the 9th 1674
                    Upon the Petition of Richard Speed That in May Court last past
                  upon a writt issued against the Petitioner at the suite of Benjamin
                  Solly deceased in an action of debt for two hundred pounds Sterling
                  the Sheriff returned a non est inventus and thereupon the Court
                  according to Act of Assembly awarded an attachment against the
                  goods of the petitioner directed to the Sheriff of Charles County
                  and Mr John Allen being then Sheriff attached Severall debts and
                  tobaccoes of your Petitioners amounting to a very great Summe
                  and never made any returne of the said writt according as by the
                  same writt he was comanded to the justices of this Court in October
                  last to the great damage of the Petitioner
                    Whereupon it was this day Ordered that the said John Allen make
                  returne of the said attachment at the next Provinciall Court. But
                  the Said John Allen being present in Court this day and the Court
                  requireing him to make returne of the writt aforesaid under his
                  hand Saith By Virtue of a writt to me directed to attach any the
                  goods and Chattells of Richard Speed to the value of two hundred
                  pounds of Sterling I doe hereby acknowledge that I have received and
                  attached in the hands of Giles Tomkins to the Value of Six thou
                  sand foure hundred & ninteene pounds of tobacco.
                                             P John Allen. Sheriff.
                    Costs allowed Lydia Solly admrx of Benjamin Solly plaintiff agt
                  Richard Speed defendant the sume of five thousand two hundred
                  flinty five pounds of tobacco.

                  Henry Phippes Thomas Turner late of Ann Arundell County
                      agt otherwise called Thomas Turner of Ann Arundell
                  Thomas Turner County in the Province of Maryland was Sum-