464 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5.




          Liber M M And whereupon the said the said Thomas Gibson by Thomas Innes
                  his Attorny Saith that whereas the aforesaid William Russell the ninth
                  day of March in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred
                  seventy three did demise to him the said Thomas Gibson the Mes
                  suage and lands aforesaid with the appurtenn[ces] To have and to
                  hold to him and his Assignes from the said ninth day of March
                  in the yeare aforesaid untill the end & terme of One whole yeare from
                  thence next following and fully to be compleate & ended By Virtue of
                  which demise the aforesaid Thomas Gibson into the Messuage and
                  lands aforesaid with the appurtenncs did enter and was thereof
                  possessed and he the said Thomas Gibson thereof being so possessed
                  the aforesaid Arthur Turner afterwards to wit the Sixtenth day of
                  March aforesaid by force and armes the Messuage and land afore
                  said with the appurtenflcs which the aforesaid William Russell to
                  him the said Thomas Gibson in forme aforesaid demised for the
                  terme aforesaid which is not yet past did enter and him from his farme
                  aforesaid did eject and other harmes to him did to the great damage
                  of him the said Thomas Gibson and against the Peace &c whereupon
                  he Saith he is dampnified and hath losse to the value of Sixteen
                  thousand pounds of tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
                      Unles the tenant in possession or they under whom he claim
                     eth doe the next Provincial Court appeare to this declaration
                     and make him and themselves deft thereunto and by rule of
                     Court confesse the lease entry and ejectment and insist only
                     upon the title the deft in this declaration will confesse judgment
                     and possession will be delivered accordingly to the plaintiff
                        To John Lovett Tenant in possession of the premisses
                        within mentioned.
                   And the aforesaid Arthur Turner by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At
                  torny cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c and the
                  said Arthur prayeth liberty of Speakeing thereunto untill the first
                  day of the next Provinciall Court and the same day is given to both
                  parties.
                   At which day that is to say the two and twentith day of April
                  in the 42th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came aswell the
                  aforesaid Thomas Gibson by Robert Carvile his Attorny as the
                  aforesd Arthur Turner by the Said Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny
                  and in the said cause by the Court here it was the same day Ordered
                  by the consent of Robert Carvile Attorny for the plaintiff and
                  Kenelm Cheseldyn Attorny for James Neale late of Charles County
                  Gent and Ann his wife that the said James and Ann his wife should
                  be admitted defts who shall forthwith appeare by their Attorny a fore
              p. 457 said and Shall receive a declaration and plead to it the General issue
                  as of this Court and at the tryall to be thereupon had they shall
                  appeare in their proper persons or by their Council or Attorny and
                  shall confesse lease entry and ejectment or that in default thereof