210       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber     N N aforesaid to him in forme aforesaid imposed was not guilty, nor
               P. 134 for that Occasion he ever withdrew himselfe Upon which it was
                   considered by the Court aforesaid that the aforesaid John Wedge
                   Should goe from thence quietly As by the aforesaid judgmt and
                   processe then before the Said Justices remaineing fully appeares of
                   Record By which pretext of which premisses the said John Wedge
                   not Only in his Goods name same creditt and estimation aforesaid
                   in which before he was reputed was greatly hurt and dampnified and
                   in his body so unquiet appeared but also great store and summes
                   or quantityes of tobacco and mony for purging exonerating and in
                   delivering in defence of his Innocency in that part to Spend & dis-
                   burse was constreyned and compelled to the losse of the said John
                   Wedge One hundred thousand pounds of tobacco, And thereupon
                   he bringeth his Suite
                    And the said James Ringold by Peter Sayer his Attorny cometh
                   and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
                   Speakeing hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted
                   him the same day is given to both parties.
                    Now here at this day to witt the eleventh day of April in the
                   first yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
                   Dom One thousand six hundred Seventy Six came the said John
                   Wedge and James Ringold by their Attornyes aforesaid & the Said
                   James Saith that he is in nothing guilty of the prmisses in manner
                   & forme as the Said John Wedge in his declaration aforesaid hath
                   declared against him & of this he putts himselfe upon the Country
                   and the plaintiff also. Whereupon Comãnd is given to the Sheriff
                   of st Maries County that he cause to come here twelve &c who
                   neither &c to recognize &c because aswell &c Att which said eleventh
                   day of April in the yeare aforesaid came aswell the said John Wedge
                   and the said James Ringold by their Attorneys aforesaid as the jurors
                   of that jury likewise came to witt Wm Abestone John Alexander
                   James Thompson John Askin Thomas Stonestreet Henry Rider
                   Richard Ridgell Richard Attwood Thomas Potter Wm Harris
                   Richard Chilman and Wm Newport who being impannelled Sum-
                   moned and Sworne to say the truth in the premisses and haveing
                   heard what could be Said on either part Upon their Oathes doe Say.
                   Wee of the jury doe find cause of action for the plaintiff and allow
                   him for damages eleaven thousand pounds of tobacco with costs
                   of Suite. Which verdict of the jurors aforesaid being read & heard
                   the Said James Ringold by his said Attorny moved the Court here
                   in Arrest of judgmt and prayed day untill the next Provinciall Court
                   and it is granted him the same day is given to both parties.

                  John     Ingram Giles Blizard late of Calvert County otherwise called
                      agt Giles Blizard of Great Choptanck River in Talbott
                 Giles Blizard  County Carpenter was Summoned to answer unto
                            John Ingram of a plea that he render unto him three