Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5. 469




       Att which said eleventh day of ffebruary in the 43th yeare of the Liber M M
     Dominion of Caecilius &c. and in the yeare of Our Lord One thou
     sand Six hundred Seventy foure aforesaid Came aswell the afore
     said Wm Russell by Robert Carvile his Attorny as the aforesaid James
     Neale and Anna his wife by Keneim Cheseldyn their Attorny and
     the jurors of that jury came likewise to wit Roger Baker Thomas
     Bowdie John Burrace John Garnish James Veitch Justinian Gerard
     John Gittings Cornelius Watkinson Wm Watts Walter Hall Robert
     Proctor & Robert Large who being impannelled sumoned & sworne
     to say the tenth of & in the premisses upon their Oathes doe say That
     they find for Capt James Neale defendant.
       Which being seene by the Court here and the premisses diligently
     looked into and thereof mature deliberation being had because it
     Seemeth to the Court here by the Evidence of the ancient Inhabitants
     of the visuage of the said Land in the declaration aforespecified &
     here at the barre upon their Oathes Vive Voce given and also by the
     Verdict of the jury aforesaid here at the barr delivered up The said
     justices due Grant that the said James Neale and Anna his wife of
     the trespas and Ejectment of him the said Wm Russell of the prem
     isses aforesaid with the appurtenñcs in the declaration aforesaid
     Specified goe thereof acquitt because it appeareth to the Court here
     that the said Land in the declaration aforesaid Specified in which
     the trespas and ejectment aforesaid is Supposed to be Committed is
     the proper land of the said Anna Neale wife of the said James Neale
     & that the same Land the said Anna holdeth of the Lord Proprietary
     by Virtue of his Lopps Letter Pattent for the same by the name of
     Gills Land to her granted, and the said justices doe further grant
     that the said James Neale & Anna his wife doe recover against the
     said William Russell the summe of foure thousand six hundred Sixty p. 461
     eight pounds of tobacco for their costs & charges in this behalfe ex
     pended & laid Out and that the said William take nothing by his
     plaint aforesaid but that he for his false clamor be taken and that the
     aforesaid James Neale & Anna his wife be thereof without damage
     Therefore Comand is given to the Said Sheriff of Charles County
     that he take the said Wm Russell if he shall be found in his Bailiwicke
     & him safe Keepe so that he have his body before his Lopps justices
     here the twentith day of April next to satisfie unto the said James
     Neale & Anna his wife the said summe of foure thousand six hun
     dred sixty eight pounds of tobacco which to them the said James and
     Anna in the said Provinciall Court held at the Citty of St Maries
     the eleventh day of ffebruary in the yeare aforesaid before the said
     justices in the said Court were adjudged for them costs of suite
     which they susteined by Occasion of the trespas & ejectment to them
     the said James and Anna by the aforesaid Wm Russell by force &
     armes & against the Peace &c in the same Court brought whereof
     he is convict.