170        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Liber N N  if he Should be found in his Bailiwick and him safe Keepe so
                  that he have his body here the six and twentith day of October
                  in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred Seventy five
                  to answer unto Robert Knapp in a plea that he render unto him
                  three thousand pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth and
                  unjustly deteineth which Said Six and twentith day of October
                  on which the Provinciall Court was to be holden was by his Lopps
                  writ of adjournment adjourned untill the sixtenth day of Novem-
                  ber the next following
                    At which said sixtenth day of November the Same Sheriff
                  maketh returne of the writ aforesaid that he hath taken the said
                  Nicholas Hackett whose body he hath at the day and place as he
                  was required, and the said Robert Knapp by Vincent Lowe his
                  Attorny came and offered himselfe against the said Nicholas in
                  the plea aforesaid but the Said Nicholas appeared not, Whereupon
                  it was Granted by the Court here that unless the defendant appeare
                  next Court the Said Sheriff shall be amercied forty shillings. At
                  which next Court to wit the ninth day of ffebruary then next fol-
                  lowing Came the Said Robert Knapp and offered himself e against
                  the Said Nicholas Hackett in the plea aforesaid but the Said
                  Nicholas came not whereupon Ordered that the said Sheriff be
                  amerced forty Shillings and day given untill next Court At
                  Court to wit the fifth day of April in the yeare of Our Lord One
                  thousand Six hundred Seventy six Came the Said Nicholas
                  Hackett by Peter Sayer his Attorny and offered himself e against
                  the Said Robert Knapp in the plea aforesaid but the said Robert
                  Knapp came not to prosecute his plaint aforesaid. Therefore it is
                  granted by the Court here that the said Nicholas recover against
                  the said Robert the summe of pounds of
                  tobacco for his costs and charges in this behalfe laid Out and
                  expended and the Said Robert in Mercy for his false claime.

              Mr Robert Carvile.   January the 3d 1675.
                    Haveing received Satisfaction of W William Stevens of Som-
                  ersett County for my debt for fourteene pounds twelve shillings &
                  eleaven pence and five hundred flinty & nine pounds of tobacco
                  costs of Suite I doe hereby Order & impower you as my Attorny
                  in that action to acknowledge satisfaction for the Same upon rec-
                  ord & for so doeing this shall be your warrant from
           To Mr Robert Carvile one of          Your ffreind
                    the Attornyes of the Provinciall     Charles Calvert.
                     Court.
                    ffebruary the 12th 1675
                  Then was Satisfaction acknowledged by the said Robert Carvile
                  upon the judgment abovesaid.