586       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.
           Liber M Mthat all other things Sett apart & all excuses waved
           he be & personally appeare here before the justices
                  of the Provinciall Court the twentith day of April now last past to
              p. 564 answer aswell unto his Lopp as unto Wm fford who aswell for his
                  Lopp as for himselfe in this behalfe prosecutes of & to all Such
                  things which to him the Said Jenkin then & there should be Objected
                  against him and further to doe and receive what the said Court
                  should consider of in that behalfe and hereof he was not to faile
                  under the penalty of One hundred pounds & yt he have there the
                  same writ.
               On the backside of which writ was endorsed
                   Wm fford of Dorchester County prosecutes this writ upon the
                   Act of Assembly of the 40th yeare of Caecilius &c against Runn
                   aways and Such persons that give them entertainement.

                   Which said Provinciall Court to be holden the said twentith day
                  of April was by his Loppes writ of adjournmt adjourned untill the
                  fourth day of May then next following. Att which said fourth day
                  of May in the 43th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Annoq Doth
                  1675 William Coursey late High Sheriff of Talbott County maketh
                  returne of the writ aforesaid in these words.
                                                  Summonit suit.
                   This cause continued till next Court.

                   Comand was given to the Sheriff of St Maries County that he
                  cause to be replevyed and delivered unto Wm Hide Severall of his
                  goods (as it is said) and that he putt by Suertyes and Safe pledges
                  Wm Nichols that he be here at this day to wit the fourth day of May
                  in the 43th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c to answer the said
                  Wm Hide of a plea of takeing and unjust deteineing of his goods.
                   At which Said fourth day of May in the yeare aforesaid the same
                  Sheriff maketh returne That he hath replevyed of the goods of
                  Wm Hide that is to say two Swords two hogesheads One chest One
                  trunck One small caske One featherbed One blankett One baskett
                  which goods I found in the hands of Thomas Spinke which said
                  two swords two hogesheads One Chest One trunck One Small caske
                  One feather bed & One blankett I have now in my possession.
                   Now here at this day to wit the fifth day of May in the yeare
                  aforesaid came the said Wm Hide and Wm Nicholls (together with
                  One John Pickering who pretended right in the Goods aforesaid or
                  part thereof) in their proper persons present in Court and by consent
                  putt themselves to the judgment of the Court.
                   And the said Wm Nicholls by Robert Ridgely his Attorny in
                  formeth the Court that his Client did transport into this Province
                  the said Wm Hide John Pickering his wife, daughter & a woman
                  Servant and that Severall goods were Shipt On board him in Bristol
                  under the marke of . but whether the same did belong to