Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672/3.  67




       sume of One hundred and Twenty pounds sterling for his Damages Liber M M
       by occasion of the prmises as also the said sume of six hundred and
       fifty pounds of Tob for his Costs of suits by him Expended in
       and about the psecution of the said suite, Thereupon the said Defendt
       John Maitby is by the Cort Comitted to the Keep of the prison of
       the said Lord Proprietary in Execution for the said One hundred
       and Twenty pounds sterling and the said six hundred and fifty
       pounds of Tobacco costs there to remaine untill he hath satisfyed
       the said John Litchington, the said sume of One hundred and twenty
       pounds sterling and the said sume of six hundred and fifty pounds
       of Tobacco whereof by the Judgem tof the said Court he is Convict
       as aforesayd.

       John Litchington Comand was given unto the Sheriff of St Maryes
          agt County that he should take John Maltby late of
       John Maltby St Maryes Citty Marchant, and him safely Keepe
       so that he have his body before the Justices of the Provincial Cort
       to be held at the Citty of St Maryes the Eleaventh day of February
       next to answere unto John Litchington of a plea of Trespas upon
       the case, at wch said day came aswell the said John Litchington by
       Kenelm Chiseldine his Attorney as the said John Maltby in his
       prop pson by the Sheriff of the County aforesayd brought to the p.8
       barre and the said Sheriff now Retornes that he tooke the body of
       the said Defendt, and that he now had him ready upon web the
       said deft being ordered by the Cort here to put in Special Bayle
       into the said Cort here to answere the said accon & pay the Con
       demnacon or render his body to the Keep of the prison of the Lord
       Proprietary if he should in the said accon be Convict, the said
       Defendt rendered himself to the prison aforesayd upon wch the said
       John Maltby is by the Cort, committed to the said prison there for
       to remaine untill he shall pforme the said ordr.
        John Maltby late of the Citty of St Maryes Marchant, was at
       tached to answere unto John Litchington in a plea of Trespas upon
       the case.
        And whereupon the said John Litchington by Keneim Chiseldine
       his Attorney complaineth that whereas the said John Maltby by the
       name of John Maltby Marchant by a certeine writing obligatory
       bearing date the Twenty third day of November in the 23d yeare of
       his Ma :ties Reigne Anno Domini 1671 did Covenant bargaine & agree
       with one John Quigley by the name of John Quigley of Virginia
       Marchant that the said John Maitby and one certeine John Nethway
       or Either of them or their ordr should well and truly Deliver to
       the said John Quigley or his ordr at the arrivall of the good ship
       called the Mary of London, whereof John Litchington is Comandr,
       and then riding at Anchor in the Governmt of New Jersey, and
       bound for ffiall and thence to Virginia, to pay fifty pypes of Mar-