56        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672.

            Liber J J To his Excellency the Capt Genll of this Province of Maryland &c
                  The Humble Petticoñ of Richard Ackworth of Somrset County
                  planter Humbley Showeth
                   That whereas Capt Thomas Jones of this County of Somrset
                  about the Beginning of August in the 41th yeare of the Dominion
                  of the Right Honble Cacilius &c Over this Province of Maryland
                  Annoq Dom, 1672 Made his Repayre to yor Pettitionrs house (in
                  your Pettr absence) with some others in his Company, And the said
                  Thomas Jones desired your Petrs wife to let him haue some syder
                  which your Pettrs wife did accordingly the said Jones Remayneing
                  from the tyme he came which was about Ten a Clock in the morneing
                  of the day he came untill Early the next morneing At which tyme
                  the said Jones gott up not making any that did belong to my ifamily
                  Acquainted, then and did there Illeagally Ransack Seiz take and
                  carry away iforty three Drest Deare skyns, One hundred Eighty odd
                  Muskratt skyns, Twenty odd Rackoone Matchecoats, and two
                  Beare skyns, And them put on Board your Pettrs Sloope, the which
                  Sloope he also made of, and both the goods afforesaid with the
                  Sloope carryed away to the Landing of Mr Randall Revell, and
                  there brake up the Cabbin Doore of your Pettrs Sloope which was
                  fast Locked, and tooke out of the said Cabbin a parcell of shott, the
                  said Jones not giveing an Account to any of my family wherefore
                  he made seizure of the iforegoing skyns nor sloope, your Pettrs
                  Sloope being at his owne Landing and his wife being asleepe, your
                  Pettrs being much Damnifyed for the want of his Sloope and Goods,
                  Humbly Craves yr Excellencys Ordr for the Restauracon of the said
                  Goods and Sloope with Damages, And as in duty bound shall pray &c

                   Uppon the fforegoeing Pettition Ordered by the Court here,
                   That Richard Ackworth the Pettr haue his Goods and Sloope
                  againe Deliuered unto him, by Capt Thomas Jones who seized the
                  same, but that the said Ackworth Doe not presume at any tyme to
                  Goe out of this Province with his Sloope before he shall first Cleare
                  her with his Lordpps Collector appointed in those parts uppon Payne
                  and perrill that shall ifollow theron
              p.  Maryland ss—Memorandum that this prsent day to witt upon the
            [i.e., 524] 7th day of October in the 41th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius
                  &c. Annoq Doth 1672. Come Thomas Jones who aswell on the
                  behalf e of the Right honble the Lord Proprietary as for himselfe
                  Giueth the Court here prsent to understand and be informed
                   That whereas he the said Thomas Jones who aswell &c, being one
                  of his Lordpps Justices for the County of Worcester haueing Re
                  ceiued informacon that one Peter Hannce a Dutchman had Imported
                  into this Province from New yorke six Mares Contrary to the Act
                  of Assembly in that case made & Provided, The said Thomas who