114        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

          Liber N N Robert Carvile Comand was given the Sheriff of St Maries
                      agt County that he attach Mathias Decosta otherwise
                Mathias Decosta called Mathias Decosta of the County of St Maries
                              in the Province of Maryland planter if he should
                  be found in his Bailiwick and him Safe Keepe so that he have his body
                  here the eighth day of ffebruary One thousand six hundred seventy
                  five to answer unto Robert Carvile Gent One of the Attornyes of this
                  Court according to the libertyes and priviledges &c allowed in a plea
                  that he render unto him the Summe of six hundred pounds of to-
                  bacco which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth Att which said
                  eighth day of ffebruary in the year aforesaid the Same Sheriff mak-
                  eth returne of the writ aforesd that the Said Mathias Decosta is not
                  found in his Bailiwick Whereupon the said Robert Carvile prayed
                  an attachment against the goods and chattells of the said Mathias
                  according to Act of Assembly and it is granted unto him


                  Wm Carpenter
                      agt             the deft in his proper person appeares
                   Thomas Bland & Damoris his & imparles untill next Court.
                    wife ex: Nich: Wyatt.


                  Richard Pery Comand was given to the Sheriff of Calvert County
                      agt that he take Joseph Tilley otherwise called Joseph
                Joseph Tilley   Tilley of Calvert County in the Province of Maryland
                           if he should be found in his Bailiwick and him Safe
                  Keepe so that he have his body here the eighth day of ffebruary
                  One thousand six hundred seventy five to answer unto Richard Pery
                  in a plea that he render unto him the Summe of three thousand five
                  hundred Seventy two pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth and
                  unjustly deteineth Att which Said eighth day of ffebruary the same
                  Sheriff maketh returne of the writ aforesaid That the Said Joseph
                  Tilley absconds so that he cannot have his body here at the day &
                  place as he is required Whereupon the said Richard Pery by Robert
                  Carvile his Attorny prayed an attachment against the goods and
                  chattells of the said Joseph according to Act of Assembly and it is
                  granted him.


               John Darnall
                                Unlesse the def appeare next Court the Sher-
                      ag iff of st Maries County amerced.
                  Marmaduke Semme


                  Elizabeth Moy Executrix
                                Rich: Moy
                                   agt
                  Eliz:    Benson & Rich. Ladd