Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5. 513




      Robert Sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco and thereupon he bring- Liber M M
      eth his suite.
        And the Said Hance by Mathew Warde his Attorny cometh and
      defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
      Speakeing hereunto untill next Provinciall Court the Same day is
      given to both parties.
        Now here at this day to wit the fiftenth day of ffebruary in the
      43th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said Hance
      and Offered himself e against the said Robert in the plea aforesaid
      but the said Robert Came not to prosecute his action aforesaid There
      fore it is considered by the Court here That the Said Hance recover
      against the Said Robert Wells the summe of Seven hundred and
      eighty pounds of tobacco for his costs and charges in this behalf e
      laid Out and expended and the said Robert in mercy for his false
      claime.

       Tobias Wells Whereas at a Provinciall Court held at St
          agt Maries the fifth day of June One thousand Six
    John Wright & ux:     hundred Sixty eight Tobias Wells recovered
                    against John Wright and Mary his wife ad
                    ministratrix of Bartholomew Glevin the summe
                    of Six hundred and Sixty pounds of tobacco
      for his costs and charges expended in a certaine Suite then depend
      ing betweene the said John Wright & Mary his wife administratrix
      of the Goods and chattells of Bartholomew Glevin deceased plain
      tiffs & the said Tobias Wells deft for which said summe execution
      is not yet issued Therefore Comãnd was given to the Sheriff of p. 502
      Kent County that he make Knowne to the said John and Mary that
      they be and appeare here the eighth day of December now last past
      which said Provincial Court to be holden On the said eighth day of
      December was by his Lopps writt of adjournment adjourned untill
      the ninth day of the same December Att which said ninth day
      December the Same Sheriff maketh returne of his writt aforesaid
      endorsed I have suthoned the within named as I am by this writt
      required And the said John and Mary by Kenelm Cheseldyn their
      Attorny cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c and
      prayeth liberty of Speakeing hereunto untill the next Provinciall
      Court the Same day is given to both parties.
        Now here at this day to witt the fiftenth day of ffebruary in the
      43th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Annoq Doth One thousand
      Six hundred Seventy foure Came the Said Tobias by Robert Carvile
      his Attorny but the said John and Mary came not but made default
      Therefore it is considered of by the Court here that execution issue
      against the said John and Many aswell for the said summe of Six
      hundred and Sixty pounds of tobacco as also the summe of five hun
      dred twenty three pounds of tobacco for his costs and charges in
      this behalfe now expended and laid Out.