298       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Liber N N   hath delivered him But your petitioner being very Credibly informed
                   by letters from his Owners & others in London that the said ffulford
                   Since makeing the said Charterparty is broke, & the Said Master hath
                   no wayes to secure his hire of the said Shipp &c but the said goods,
                   And the said Edward Leach demanding the remaindr of the said
                   goods your Petr hath refused to deliver them Unlesse the Said
                   Edward Leach will Secure the payment of the hire of the Said
                   Shipp &c aforesaid which he refuseth but threatens your Petr with
                   Suits & protest.
                     yr Petr therefore humbly prayes yr Lopps consideration of the
                   premisses & to call the said Edward Leach before yr Lopp and that
                   he may be Ordered to give Security for performance of the said
                   Charterparty Out of the said goods or otherwise as yr Lopp in justice
                   shall thinke meete. And yr Petr shall pray.
                      On the backside of which petition was endorsed. I doe hereby
                      appoint tuesday the 23th of this instant month of May for the
                      heareing this Petition & that the Said Thomas Peighin and
                      Edward Leach be then at the Citty of st Maries at the heareing
                      & determining the same and that the said Peighin give notice to
                      the said Edward Leach hereof. Ch: Baltemore
                   May 16th 1676.
                     Afterwards to wit the foure and twentith day of May in the yeare
                   aforesaid at a Provinciall Court held at st Maries before his Lord-
                   shipp and his Lopps justices thereunto assigned the Petition afore-
                   said with the said Charterparty was read in Open Court, the judgmt
                   of the Court was that the business in the Petition mentioned is not
                   legally brought before them, Afterwards to wit the said foure and
                   twentith day of May in the yeare aforesaid Comand was given to
                   the Sheriff of st Maries County that he take George ffulford late
                   of St Maries County merchant otherwise called George ffu!ford of
                   London merchant if he Should be found in his Bailiwick & him safe
                   Keepe so that he have his body here before his Lopps justices of his
                   Provinciall Court the five & twentith day of May then instant to
                   answer unto Thomas Peighin marriner of a plea that he render unto
                   him the full and just summe of One thousand pounds of lawfull
                   mony of England wch to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth, Att
                   which said five & twentith day of May the Same Sheriff maketh
                   returne that the Said George ffulford is not found in his Bailiwick
                   neverthelesse the Said George ffulford by Mathew Warde his At-
                   torny cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth
                   liberty of Speakeing hereunto untill the fifth day of June then next
                   ensueing and it is granted him the same day is given to the said
                   Thomas Peighin.
                     Afterwards to wit the seventh day of June then next ensueing
                   Came the partyes aforesd by their Attornyes and the said Thomas
                   Peighin by Robert Carvile his Attorny Saith That whereas by a cer