Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672/3.  69



      in no wise guilty of the prmises in such manner and forme as the Liber M M
      said John Litchington hath by his Declaration objected against him,
      and of this he puts himself upon the Country, & ye sd John Litching
      ton likewise
        Therefore Comand is given to ye sheriff of St Maryes County
      that he cause to come before the Justices of ye Provincial Cort at the
      Citty of St Maryes on the Eleaventh day of February next being
      the first day of ye same Cort Twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c
      because aswell &c to Recognize &c and the same day is given to
      both ptyes.
        At wch day that is to say the 11th day of ffebruary in the 41th
      yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1672 came
      aswell the said John Litchington by Kenelm Chiseldine his Attorney
      as the said John Maltby by Vincent Lowe his Attorney, and the
      Jurors of that Jury likewise came to wit Thomas Paine Richard
      Loyd, Randall Hanson Marmaduke Symms Henry Hide George
      Eeckwith Richard Ladd Robert Tyler, George Johnson William
      Thompson Joab Walton and Joshua Doyne—who to say the truth
      in ye prmises being Elected tryed & sworne upon their oathes doe
      say that they finde for the plt Twenty Thousand pounds of Tobacco
      Damages and Costs of suite, wherefore it is by the Court here Con
      sidered that the said John Litchington Recover agt the said John
      Maltby aswell the said sume of Twenty Thousand pounds of
      Tobacco for his Damages in this behalfe susteined as also the sume
      of six hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco for his Costs and
      Charges about this suite Expended and the said John Maltby in
      mercy &c.
        And afterwards to wit the same day before the said Justices the
      said defendt John Maltby being Convict by the Judgemt of the
      here to pay to the said John Litchington aswell the said sume of
      Twenty Thousand pounds of Tobacco for his Damages by occasion
      of ye prmises as also the sume of six hundred and fifty pounds of
      Tobacco for his costs of suite by him Expended in and about the
      prosecution of the said suite—Thereupon the said Defendt John
      Maltby is by the Cort Comitted to ye Keeper of the prison of the said
      Lord Proprietary in Execution for the said Twenty Thowsand
      pounds of Tobacco, 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 Twenty Thousand six hundred and
      fifty pounds of Tobacco whereof by the Judgemt of the said Court
      he is Convict as aforesayd.

     ffrancis   Kilborne & ux Samuell Cressy late of Charles County in
            agt the said Province was Surñoned to answere
      Samuell Cressy  unto ffrancis Kilborne and Elizabeth his
      wife Administratrix of ye goods & Chattels of Daniel Johnson de