146       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

          Liber N N Richard Royston Comand was given the Sheriff of st Maries County
                      agt that he take William Nichols if he Shall be found
                  Wm Nicholsin his Bailiwick & him Safe Keepe so that he have
                  his body here the fourth day of April in the first
                  yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c to answer
                  unto Richard Royston in a plea of trespas upon the case
                    At which said fourth day of April in the yeare aforesaid came
                  the same Sheriff and made returne of his writ aforesaid that he had
                  taken the said Wm Nichols whose body he hath as by the same writ
                  he was required
                    Afterwards to wit the seventh day of April in the yeare afore-
                  said Came the said Richard Royston by Mathew Warde his Attorny
                  and the said Wm Nicholls by Robert Ridgely his Attorny likewise
                  came, and the plaintiffs Attorny informing the Court that the cause
                  of action was considerable and the defendant a fforreigner moved
                  the Court for Special Bayle, and it is granted by the Court here
                  then Came the said Wm Nichols, and Wm Harper and Edward
                  Turner his Suertyes and acknowledged in Open Court that if the
                  said Wm Nichols be cast in this suite and doe not satisfie the con-
                  demnation thereupon or render his body to prison they will satisfie
                  & pay the Same, which Securityes were accepted off by the plaintiffs
                  Attorny. and day given to both parties untill Christmas next.

                 John Rousby & Barbara Peter Sayer One of the Attorneys accord-
                       his wife ing to the libertyes & priviledges of the Pro-
                       agt vinciall Court and ffrances his wife were
                  Peter Sayer & ffrances Sumoned to answer John Rousby One of
           his wife  the Attornyes of the same Court according
                     to the liberties and priviledges there used
                  and Barbara his wife of a plea that whereas they the said John and
               Barbara and the aforesaid Peter and ffrances together and undivided
               doe hold to them and their heirs all those Severall parcells of land
               called Morgans neck containeing three hundred acres, Bluff point
               containeing two hundred acres, Morgans St Michaels containeing
               three hundred acres, Marron containeing One hundred and thirty
               acres, Morgans Hope containeing three hundred acres Harriton
               containeing two hundred and Seventy acres and Plymhimmon con-
               taineing six hundred acres in Talbott County, and in the County of
               Kent six hundred and fifty acres of land, they the said Peter &
               ffrances that partition may be made thereof betweene them accord-
               Th ing to the fforme of the statute in that case published and provided
                  doe deny and the same most unjustly permitt not to be done against
                  the forme of the statute aforesaid &c.
                    And whereupon the said John in his proper person saith That
                  whereas he the said John the said Barbara his wife and the afore