284       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.
              Liber N N Richard Speed  Comand was given to the Sheriff of Charles
                P. 175 agt       County That whereas heretofore it was co
                 Josias ffendall & al  manded him that he attach any the goods Chat-
                                 tells or creditts of Edward Erbery & Compa
                    if they Should be found in his Bailiwick to the value of One hun-
                    dred & fifty pounds Sterling and when he had the same so attached
                    or any part thereof to deliver the same to Richard Speed in pursu-
                    ance of an Order of the Provinciall Court the 13th of October One
                    thousand six hundred Seventy foure, and to what value he should
                    attach & deliver as aforesaid he make Knowne to Our justices of
                    Our said Court the ninth day of ffebruary then next At which said
                    ninth day of ffebruary he made returne that he had attached in the
                    hands of Josias ffendall and Hugh ONeale eight thousand pounds of
                    tobacco, in the hands of Richard Morris foure hundred pounds of
                    tobacco. in the hands of ffrancis Kilborne foure hundred Seventy-
                    foure pounds of tobacco. in the hands of John Allen twelve hundred
                    sixty Eight pounds of tobacco. in the hands of John Stone six hun-
                    dred forty two pounds of tobacco. in the hands of Nathaniel Eaton
                    twelve hundred pounds of tobacco. in the hands of Wm Barton jnr
                    One hundred seventy One pounds of tobacco. in the hands of Edward
                    Price three hundred & Seventy pounds of tobacco. in the hands of
                    Archibald Waghopp seventeene hundred and forty pounds of tob
                    and in the hands of Richard Speed nine hundred and seventeene
                    pounds of tobacco which said summes in the whole amount unto
                    the sume of fifteen thousand One hundred twenty two pounds of
                    tobacco. It was therefore Comanded him that by good and law full
                    men of his Bailiwick he make Knowne to the said Josias ffendall
                    Hugh ONeale Richard Morris ffrancis Kilborne John Allen John
                    Stone Nathaniel Eaton Wm Barton jr. Edward Price Archibald
                    Walkup and Richard Speed that they be & appeare here the fourth
                    day of April Anno Doth 1676 to shew cause if any they have why
                    the Severall & respective summes of tobacco aforesaid in their hands
                    attached as aforesaid Ought not to be rendred Satisfied & paid to the
                    said Richard Speed. Att which said fourth day of April in the yeare
                    aforesaid the same Sheriff maketh retarne of the writ aforesaid
                    endorsed By virtue of this writ I have made Knowne to the persons
                    within nominated that they be and appeare at the day and place
                    within mentioned. Afterwards to witt the fourtenth day of April
                    in the yeare aforesaid came the said Josias ffendall by John Jones
                    his Attorny cometh & Saith that true it is he is indebted to the said
                    Edward Erbery and Company but his Specialty lyes Out in Virginia
                    for the same which cannot be delivered him up by any Order from
                    this Court nor the said ffendall be secured from paying the same in
                    Virginia where his said Specialty is. Whereupon it is considered by
                    the Court here that Josias ffendall be discharged from the Said Scire
                    facias and that he be allowed his reasonable costs and charges in