Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     609

       Roger Baker                               Liber M M
          agt
       John Atkey
       Jno Osfley
         agt
       Jno Gittings admr
       Jno Wingfeld
       Edward Roe Comand was given to the Sheriff of Talbott p. 586
          agt      County that he take Thomas Philipps if &c So
       Thomas Phillipps that he have his body here the twentith day of
                   April last past to answer unto Edward Roe in
                   a plea of debt which said twentith day of April
       On which the said Provinciall Court was to be holden was by his
       Lopps writ of adjournment adjourned untill the fourth day of May
       then next Comeing At which said fourth day of May the Said Sheriff
       Wm Coursey made returne that he had taken the said Thomas
       Philipps whose body he had at the day and place as the same writ
       did comãnd him, and the cause being then called and the deft not
       appeareing it was by the Court Ordered that unlesse the defendant
       appeare at the next Provinciall Court to answer this suite that the
       same Sheriff be amerced forty Shillings Sterling Now here at this
       Court to witt the six & twentith day of November in the 44th yeare
       of his Lopps Dominion &c the Said deft not appeareing to answer
       the Suite of the plaintiff it is this day Ordered That the Said Wm
       Coursey late Sheriff of the said County of Talbott doe assigne unto
       the Said Edward Roe the Baile bond taken by him for the appear
       ance of the said Thomas Philipps to answer the plaint of the plain
       tiff for his releife in the premisses.

       Roger Baker
         agt    this action abates the deft being dead
       John Pott

       Bryan Daley
          agt
       George Charlsworth
                     these two actions abate the plt being dead
       the Same
         agt
       the Same

       Stephen Tully
           agt
       Jno Darby & Wm
         Hemsley