80  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672/3.




          Liber M M  Arundell County aforesayd in the branches of ffishing Creeke begin
                 ning at a marked Oake standing upon a hill, the said Oake being a
                 Corner Tree of the land of Anthony Salloway, and Running South
                 by the said Sallowayes line Eighty Perches to a marked Poplar
                 being a forked Tree, then by a line Drawne West thirty perches to a
                 marked Chestnut Tree, then by a line Drawne North from the said
                 Chestnut for the length of three hundred and Twenty pches to a
                 mrked Redd Oake, bounding on the North with a line Drawne East
                 Two hundred and ninety Perches to a marked Chestnut Tree stand
                 ing in the line of the land aforesayd Called Little Wells bounding
                 East and South with the land of Anthony Salloway to the first
                 marked Oake Conteyning by Estimation foure hundred and Twenty
                 acres more or less with the apptnces to have & to occupy to him
                 and his assignes from the ifeast of the annunciation of the blessed
                 Virgin Mary then last past untill the full end and Terme of five
                 yeares to be Compleate and Ended by virtu of wch said Demise.
                 the aforesayd ffrancis holland into the aforesayd severall pcells of
                 Land with the apptnces did Enter & was thereof possessed, and he
                 the said ffrancis being so thereof possessed the aforesayd Hugh
                 Connell afterwards to wit the Twelveth day of Novemr in the forty
                 first yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c by force & armes the
                 said several pcells of Land with the ăpptnces wch the aforesayd
                 George Wells to him the said ffrancis Holland in forme aforesayd
                 demised for the term aforsyd wch is not yet paste did Enter and him
                 from the said pcells of Land with the ăpptnces did Eject and other
                 harmes to him did doe to the greate damage of him the said ffrancis
                 and against the peace &c whereupon he saith he is Damnifyed and
                 hath losse to the vallue of three Thousand pounds sterling and
                 thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                   And the said Hugh Connell by John Morecroft his Attorney doth
                 Come & Defe[nds] the force and injury when &c and the said Hugh
                 prayeth liberty of Speaking thereunto untill the first day of ffebruary
                 Court next and it is graunted unto him and the same day is given
                 to both ptyes.
                   At wth day that is to say the Eleaventh day of ffebruary in the 41th
             p. 19   yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1672 the
                 Defendt in open Cort acknowledg[eth] the service of the Declaration,
                 And thereupon it is this day ordered by the Cott by the assent of
                 Kenelm Chiseldine Attorney for the plt, and John Morecroft Attor
                 ney for Henry Beedle and Sophia his wife late of the County of Ann
                 arundell that the said Henry and Sophia shalbe admitted defendts,
                 who shall appeare without Delay by their Attorney aforesayd and
                 shall Receive a Declaration and shall pleade the Generall issue there
                 unto this Cort, and to the tryall thereof the said Henry and Sophia
                 shall appeare in their pp psons or by their Councell or Attorney and