Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.  657



      Saith that the Said Shallap with her rigging of the value of three Liber M M
      thousand pounds of tobacco One chest of goods of the Value of
      foure thousand pounds of tobacco & thirty pounds of Porke & two
      cheeses of the Value of One hundred pounds of tobacco the said
      Thomas with force & armes from him the said John did take & the
      same from him as yet doth deteine contrary to the Peace &c to the
      damage of the said John Wilson the summe of thirty thousand
      pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
        And the said Thomas by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh &
      defendeth the force & injury when &c & Saith that he is in no wayes
      guilty of the trespas of assault battery false imprisonment in the
      declaration above complained off and of this he putts himselfe upon
      the Country and the plaintiff likewise There fore it is comanded the
      Sheriff that he cause to come here twelve &c.
        Now here at this day to wit the ninetenth day of November in
      the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said John
      Wilson by his Attorny aforesaid & the said Thomas Oliver by his
      Attorny & the jurors of that jury likewise came to wit Richard Loyd
      Richard Ambrose James Ringold John Evans Edward Roe John
      Allen Joshua Doyne Richard Whitty Thomas Carvile Gerard Slye
      John Hollins & Vincent Atcheson who being impannelled Sumoned
      & sworne to say the truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe
      Say The jury findes no cause of action. And for that the Court
      here will advise before they passe judgment the said John Wilson is
      committed into the custody of the Sheriff untill the morrow On
      which said morrow to wit the the twentith day of November in
      the yeare aforesaid it is considered by the Court here that the said
      Thomas Oliver recover against the estate of the said John Wilson
      the summe of two thousand three hundred seventy five pounds of
      tobacco & the said John in mercy &c

      Charles Calvert Esq John Wells late of Kent County otherwise
         agt called John Wells of Kent County in the
      John WellsProvince of Maryland planter was SumOned
      to answer the Honble Charles Calvert Esq in
      a plea that he render unto him foure thousand pounds of tobacco
      which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth.
        And whereupon the Honble Charles Calvert by Vincent Lowe his
      his Attorny Saith That whereas the said John On the eightenth day p. 634
      of ffebruary Anno Doth One thousand six hundred Seventy three
      by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of him
      the said John and here in Court produced whose date is the day &
      yeare abovewritten did bind himselfe his heirs executors admrs &
      assignes to pay unto the Honble Charles Calvert his heirs executors
      or certaine Attorny the just & neate quantity of foure thousand
      pounds of good Sound merchantable tobacco & casque upon demand