Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     161
        Wm Coursey                                  Liber N N
           agt
        John Baynard &
        Richard Royston
        Nathaniel Stiles executr                   p. 101
      Thomas Salmon       .
                     this case discontinued.
             ag
        John Desjardiens

        Vincent Lowe
           agt
        Henry Mitchell Unlesse the deft appeare next Court the sheriff of
        Wm Porter Calvert County amercied.
           agt
        Henry Mitchell

        Philip ffrench Comand was given to the Sheriff of Talbott County
           agt that he take John Ingram if he should be found in
       John Ingram his Bailiwick So that he have his body here the
                   fourth day of April in the first yeare of his Lopps
        Dominion &c to answer unto Philip ffrench in a plea that he render
        unto him the summe of fifteene hundred pounds of tobacco which
        to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth, which said fourth day of
        April On which the Provinciali Court ought to have beene held was
        by his Lopps writ of adjournment adjourned untill the fifth day of
        the same month. At which said fifth day of April in the yeare
        aforesaid the same Sheriff maketh returne of the writ aforesaid
        that the Said John Ingram is not found in his Bailiwick. Where-
        upon the Said Philip ffrench by Mathew Warde his Attorny prayed
        an attachment against the estate of the Said John Ingram according
        to Act of Assembly in such case made and provided and it is granted
        unto him.

        Richard Royston Comand was given the Sheriff of Talbott County
             agt that he take Thomas Banford late of Dorchester
      Thomas Banford   County if he should be found in his Bailiwick and
                    him Safe Keepe So that he have his body before
        his Lopps justices here the fourth day of April in the first yeare of
        his Lopps Dominion &c to answer unto Richard Royston in a plea
        that he render unto him One thousand seaven hundred pounds of
        tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth which said
        fourth day of April on which the Provinciall Court ought to have
        beene held was by his Lopps writ adjourned untill the fifth day of
        the Same month. At which Said fifth day of April the same Sher-
        iff maketh returne of the writ aforesaid that the Said Thomas Ban-