608  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.




          Liber M M  his mind but also is brought in danger of being turned Out of his said
                  Offices and of forfeiting his said bond So entered into as aforesaid
                  but also the same Charles is brought into very great distrust & in
                  famy aswell with the said Lord Propry and his Capt Generall Sur
              p.  veyr Generall & Councellours as aforesaid as with all the justices
                  Officers and great & Eminent persons within this Province & with
                  all other the Inhabitants of this Province to the damage of him the
                  said Charles of One hundred thousand pounds of tobacco And there
                  upon he bringeth his suite.
                   And the Said Thomas and Mary by Robert Carvile their At
                  torny come & defend the force and injury when &c & pray liberty of
                  Speaking hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted
                  them the Same day is given to both parties
                   Now here at this day to witt the foure & twentith day of Novem
                  ber in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Doth
                  1675 came the said Charles James by his Attorny aforesaid & offered
                  himselfe against the said Thomas & Mary in the plea aforesaid
                  and the said Thomas & Mary by their Attorny came likewise and
                  they Say that they are in nowise guilty of the prmisses above against
                  them complained of & of this they putt themselves upon the Coun
                  try & the said Charles likewise Therefore comand is given to the
                  Sheriff that he cause to come here twelve &c by whom &c who
                  neither &c to recognize &c because aswell &c Then likewise came
                  the jurors of that jury to witt Henry Tripp James Nuthall Jno
                  Bigger Richard Bayly Tobias Wells Walter Hall David Holt Rich
                  ard Hatton Michael Miller Joseph Edloe Thomas Doxey & Ralph
                  Blackhall who being impannelled sumoned & Sworne to say the
                  truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe Say Wee the jurors
                  doe finde no cause of action Whereupon it is considered by the Court
                  here That the Said Thomas and Mary recover against the Said
                  Charles James the summe of two thousand One hundred Seventy
                  two pounds of tobacco for their costs and charges in this behalfe
                  laid Out & expended and the Said Charles James in mercy for his
                  false clamor.

                  Richard Ambrose
                                   agt
                  John Allen
                  Thomas Warner
                                   agt
                  Wm Dirkin &
                                Wm Crane
                  John Browne
                    agt        these five causes agreed.
                  Wm Russell