594  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.




         Liber M M   not redelivered unto him the said Thomas Mount fort but the same
                 to returne & deliver unto him the said Thomas Mountfort though
                 often thereunto required hitherto hath & still doth altogether deny
                 to the damage of the said Thomas Mount fort two thousand pounds
                 of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                   And the said Thomas Bowdle by George Oldfeild his Attorny
                 cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty
                 of Speakeing hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & it is granted
                 unto him the same day is given to both Parties.
                   Now here at this day to wit the foure & twentith day of November
                 in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Doth 1675
                 Came aswell the said Thomas Mountfort by his Attorny and the said
                 Thomas Bowdle by Robert Carvile his Attorny came likewise And
                 the said Thomas Bowdle saith he did not assume upon himselfe and
                 to the said Thomas Mountfort make such Promise as the said
                 Thomas Mountfort hath above declared against him and of this he
                 putts himselfe upon the Country and the plaintiff also Therefore
                 Comand is given to the Sheriff of St Maries County that he cause
                 to come here twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c to recognize &c
                 because aswell &c
                   Att which said foure & twentith day of November in the yeare
                 aforesaid Came the said Thomas Mountfort & the said Thomas
                 Bowdle by their Attornyes aforesaid & the jurors of that jury like
                 wise came to witt John Gittings Wm Thomas Arthur Wright Peter
                 Watts John Tant Richard Meekins John Garnish Raymond Stapel
             p. 572  fort John Brookes George Charlsworth Henry Turner & Henry
                 Exon who being impannelled sumOned & Sworne to say the truth
                 in the premisses upon their Oathes doe say Wee find for the plaintiff
                 Therefore it is considered by the Court here that the said Thomas
                 Mountfort recover against the said Thomas Bowdle aswell the
                 summe of two thousand pounds of tobacco for his damages occa
                 sioned by the trespas aforesaid as also the sume of One thousand
                 seaven hundred & fourteen pounds of tobacco for his costs and
                 Charges in this behalfe laid Out and expended & the said Thomas
                 Bowdle in mercy.

                 Richard ffountaine This action being upon replevin for a certaine
                     agt Stone horse the defendant this day to wit the
               Henry Hawkins  foure & twentith day of November in the 44th
                              yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c by Ben
                              jamin Rozer his Attorny cometh & defendeth the
                 force & injury when &c & as to the trespas aforesaid as to the Keep
                 ing & unjust deteineing the horse aforesaid the said Benjamin Saith
                 not Therefore it is considered by the Court here that the said Richard
                 recover against the said Henry aswell the summe of two thousand
                 pounds of tobacco for the trespas aforesaid as also the summe of