268       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N said and the said Charles saith he is no wayes guilty of the trover
                   and conversion in manner and forme as the said Wm hath above
                   declared agt him and of this he putts himselfe upon the Country
                   and the plaintiff also. Therefore it is comanded the Sheriff of
                   st Maries County That he cause to come here twelve &c by whom &c

                   who neither &c to recognize &c because aswell &c which said jurors
                   likewise then came to witt Wm Abestone John Askin Wm King
                   Henry Rider Richard Ridgell Richd Atwood Thomas Potter Rich-
                   ard Chilman Wm Newport Giles Blizard Robert Large & Nicholas
                   Guither who being impannelled SumOned & Sworne to say the truth
                   in the premisses upon their Oathes doe say Wee find for the defend-
                   ant with costs of suite. Therefore it is granted by the Court here
                   that the said Charles Ascomb recover agt the said Wm Boarman the
                   summe of             pounds of tobacco costs of suite.
                   in this behalfe laid Out & expended

                   Vincent Mans feild Memorandum that this day to witt the eighth
                      agt day of ffebruary Anno Doth 1675 at a Provin
                   John Quigley ciall Court of the Lord Proprietary of this Prov
                   ince Came here in Court Vincent Mansfeild by
                   Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny and exhibited here in Court his cer-
                   taine bill of Complaint against John Quigley One of the Attornyes
                   of this Court in a plea of trespas upon the case according to the
                   libertyes and priviledges &c.
                    And whereupon the said Vincent by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At-
                   torny complaineth that whereas the said John Quigley the eight &
                   twentith day of August in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand Six
                   hundred Seventy five had One horse belonging to him the said John
                   taken by the Indians at the Susquehannough ffort and tyed very
                   neere unto the Said ffort. the said John Quigley in consideration
                   that the Said Vincent then haveing there one able horse of the value
                   of foure thousand pounds of tobacco would lend the Said horse to
                   One Thomas Mottley there then willing to bring off from the said
                   ffort the said horse belonging to the said Quigley the Said John did
                   assume upon himselfe and to the Said Vincent did faithfully promise
                   that in case the said Vincents horse should chance to be Killed or
                   wounded in fetching off the horse belonging to the said Quigley
                   that he the said John would pay unto the said Vincent for the Said
                   horse the summe of foure thousand pounds of tobacco and the Said
                   Vincent in fact saith that he did lend the said horse unto the said
                   Thomas Mottley as aforesaid and the said horse was wounded by
                   the said Indians and of the said wound did die notwithstanding
                   which the said John the said Summe of foure thousand pounds of
                   tobacco to him the said Vincent hath not paid though often there-
                   unto required but the same to pay hitherto hath and still doth deny
                   to pay to the damage of the said Vincent Six thousand pounds of