472      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5.

         Liber M M   Whereupon it is Ordered by the Court here that the said John
                     Grather be delivered into the Custody of the Said Sheriff of
                     Calvert County untill he satisfie the executions aforesaid:

             p.463   The Humble Petition of Wm Claw and John Smalpeece of
                     St Maries County executors of the last will & Testament of John
                     Reynolds late of the aforesaid County deceased named.
                 Humbly Sheweth
                   That whereas ye Petitioners have before this Petitioned this Court
                 about the reall estate of the Said deceased and referred to the con
                 sideracon of the Attorny Genll whereof they have had no answer and
                 the petitionrs being suthoned to appeare before the judge in causes
                 testmentary to render an accompt of the estate of the deceased,
                 Humbly prayes this Court to settle the reall estate of the said de
                 ceased that they may render an accompt of their execution of the
                 last will & Testament of the said deceased
                   Whereupon it was this day to wit the thirtenth day of ffebruary
                 in the 43th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Ordered by the Court
                 here that the Land of the Said John Reynolds be Sold for the
                 satisfaction of his Creditors and the said executors are hereby im
                 powered to sell & dispose the same for the use aforesaid.

                 Edmund Hinchman Samuel Hatton late of Talbot County other
                     agt      wise called Samuel Hatton of Talbott County
                 Samuel Hatton in the Province of Maryland was sumoned to
                              answer unto Edmund Hinchman of a plea that
                              he render unto him ten thousand pounds of
                              tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly
                              deteineth.
                   And whereupon the said Edmund by Robert Carvile his Attorny
                 complaineth that whereas the said Samuel upon the thirtenth day of
                 April in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred Seventy
                 foure by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the seale of
                 him the said Samuel & here in Court produced whose date is the day
                 & yeare abovesaid did bargaine and agree with the said Edward
                 Hinchman as followeth That he the said Hatton did thereby Ingage
                 himselfe to freight upon a Vessell belonging to the said Hinchman
                 and then being On the Stocks in Leonards Creeke in Calvert County
                 to Say foure Tunns of tobacco accompting foure hhds to the Tunn
                 and to provide them all ready at the plantacon of Richard Cane in
                 Petuxent River by the fourtenth day of May then next ensueing,
                 the Said Vessell being bound for the Island of Barbadoes and his
                 goods being there delivered he was to pay for it after the rate of
                 Six pounds Sterling p Tunn And for the true performance of the
                 premisses aforespecified he the said Samuel Hatton did by those
                 presents bind himselfe his heirs executors & admrs in the summe of