440  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.




        Liber M M Now here at this day to wit the fourtenth day of December in the
                 yeare aforesaid it is by the Court here Ordered that the Sheriff
                 abovesaid deliver the Said Mare and foale to the Said Elizabeth
                 Gardner.

                 December the 12th 1674
                   Ordered that the ffines, fforfeitures and amerciaments be estreated.
          fine 500l tob Stephen Murty being impannelled summoned and Sworne to try
                 the issue joynd betweene John Peerce plaintiff and John Code de
                 fendant and declareing the Verdict before the same was delivered in
                 Court here as by affidavit of Keneim Cheseldyn fined to his Lopp
                 five hundred pounds of tobacco

                   The Court here being sensible that the tediousnesses of the weather
                 is the obstruction that the Sheriff of Talbott County hath made no
                 returnes of his writts doe therefore Order that no advantage of
                 exception is thereupon to be taken but that the Attornyes concerned
                 enter their appearances in prosecution to tryall next Court when the
                 same shall be returned

          The Court adjourned untill the Second tuesday in ffebruary next
                     being the ninth day thereof.

                 Maryland ss.
                 Att a Provinciall Court of the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary
                 of this Province holden at the Citty of St Maries the ninth day of
                 ffebruary in the 43th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Annoq Dom
                 One thousand six hundred Seventy foure and there continued untill
                 the fiftenth day of the same month at which said ninth day were
                 present.
                   The Honble Charles Calvert Esq Leivtenñt Genll & cheife justice

                         Philip Calvert Esq Chancellour.
                 The Honble Baker Brooke
                             Esq justices
                        Thomas Taillor

                The Lord Proprietary The judge and Cothissary Generall in testa
                        agt mentary causes maketh returne of his re
                 Garrett Vansweringen port to the Court here in these words Vizt.
                 the Same Die Saturni 6 ffebruary 1674.
                   agt           To the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary
                 John Barnes executr in his Lopps Provinciall Court his Lopps
               Walter Waterling  judge & Comissary Generall in Testamen
                                 tary causes.
                 Humbly Sheweth.
                   That whereas upon a suite depending between his said Lopp and
                 Garrett Vansweringen and John Barnes the executor of the last