Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     237

        Thomas Griffith shall well and truly accept and pay the Said bills of Liber N N
        exchange according to the tenor thereof then this present Obligation
        to be void otherwise to stand in force. Which being read and heard
        the Said Arthur Carleton by his Attorny aforesaid prayeth liberty
        of Speakeing hereunto untill the next Court the same day is given
        to the said Robert.
          Now here at this day to witt the fiftenth day of April in the first
        yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom
        1676 came the said Robert in his proper person and the said Arthur
        came not Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the said
        Robert recover against the estate of the said Thomas the summe
        of twelve pounds Sterling together with the summe of three pounds
        twelve shillings damages & also the summe of five hundred thirty
        six pounds of tobacco costs of Suite but so as execution cease untill
        affects come to the hands of the administrator

       Garret Vansweringen Comand was given to the Sheriff of st Maries
           agt County that he take Robert Cole if &c so
        Robert Colej that he have his body here the eighth day
         of ffebruary last past to answer unto Garrett
        Vansweringen in a plea that he render unto him the summe of five
        hundred pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth and unjustly
        deteineth.
          Att which Said eighth day of ffebruary in the yeare aforesaid
        the Same Sheriff maketh returne of the writt aforesaid That he
        hath taken the said Robert Cole whose body he hath ready at the
        day and place as by the same writt he is required But the Said
        Robert came not, whereupon day was given to the Same Sheriff untill
        the next Count and Ordered that unlesse the said Robert appeare
        here at the next Court to answer the said Garret in the plea aforesaid,
        that the Sheriff be amercied
          Now here at this day to witt the fourtenth day of April in the
        first yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
        Doth 1676. Came the same Sheriff & delivered into Court the bayle
        bond of him the said Robert for his appearance here as aforesaid
        whereupon the Same Sheriff is discharged.

       James Thompson ffrancis Wyne late of Charles County Gent was
           agt attached to answer unto James Thompson gent
       ffrancis Wyne j of a plea of trespas upon the case.
                     And whereupon the said James Thompson by
        Robert Ridgely his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said James
        being Surveyr of all and Singular the Mannors of the Rt Honble
        the Lord Proprietary of this Province lawfully constituted & ap-
        pointed, the said ffrancis Wyne the tenth day of October 1673 in
        consideration that the said James would survey for him according