290       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N  void upon Record and the Said Kenelm from the possession of the
                   prmisses amoved & the same lands & premisses into Our hands be

                   Seized And hereof you are not to faile at your peril & have you there
                   this writt. Att which said fourth day of April the same sheriff
                   maketh returne of the writt aforesaid that he hath made Knowne
                   unto the said Kenelm that he be & appeare here the day within the
                   same writt specified. Afterwards to witt the seventh day of April
                   then next following came the said Kenelm in his proper person and
                   Saith nothing to the Court here against the vacateing the Grant
                   aforesaid Whereupon it is the judgment of the Court here that the
                   same be vacated upon record and the said grant to be adnulled &
                   made void & so had & esteemed and the same land & premisses into
                   his Lopps hands be Seized.


             The Court adjourned untill the 22th day of May next.
                                Maryland ss.
                    Att a Provinciall Court held at St Maries the two and twentith
                   day of May Anno Doth One thousand six hundred seventy six and
                   there continued untill the tenth day of June then next ensueing Att
                   which said two and twentith of May were present.
                      The Rt Honble Charles Lord Baron of Baltemore &c. The Honble
                      Philip Calvert Esq Chan. the Honble Wm Calvert Esp Princi-
                      pall Secretary The Honble Baker Brooke Esq Surveyr Genll
                      and the Honble Jesse Wharton Esq. justices.
                                         Jno Blomfeild, CI Cur. prdict.
                    Then was John Burroughs of Calvert County acquitted by procla-
                   mation
                    Then appeared Thomas Beech to Save his recognizance.
                  Benony Eaton Thomas Thurstone late of Baltemore County
                      agt in the Province of Maryland planter was sum-
                Thomas Thurston  öned to answer unto Benony Eaton of a plea
                               that he render unto him eighteen thousand pounds
                  of tobacco which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth
                    And whereupon the said Benony by Robert Carvile his Attorny
                   Saith that whereas the said Thomas upon the first day of October
                   in the yeare of Our Lord 1675 by his certaine bill or writeing Obiga-
                   tory Sealed with the Seale of him the Said Thomas & here in Court
                   produced whose date is the day & yeare abovesaid did acknowledge
                   himself e to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Benony Eaton his
                   heirs or assignes the full & just summe of eighteen thousand pounds
                   of good Sound merchantable tobacco such as the abovesaid Eaton
                   should accept in caske to be paid upon demand at some convenient
                   place of Ann Arundell County Yet notwithstanding the Said Thomas
                   the said summe of eighteen thousand pounds of tobacco or any part
                   thereof to him the said Benony according to the tenor of the said
                   bill though often thereunto requested hath not paid or Satisfied but