318        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

              Liber N N issue for the Summes attached as aforesaid and it is granted

                                  unto him.
                P. ‘93 John Rousby admr Comand was given to the Sheriff of Dorchester
                      ffrancis Allen County that he take Henry Tripp late of his
                     agt         County if &c So that he have his body here the
                 Henry Tripp     28th day of November 1676 to answer unto John
                                 Rousby administratr of the goods & Chattells
                    of ffrancis Allen deceased that justly he render unto him his rea-
                    sonable accompt for the time he was receiver of the goods & mer-
                    chandizes of the said ffrancis and which to him to render he ought.
                    Att which said eight & twentith day of November in the yeare af ore-
                    said the Same Sheriff maketh returne of the writ aforesaid That
                    he hath taken the said Henry Tripp whose body he hath ready at
                    the day & place as by the same writ he was comanded. Afterwards
                    to wit the first day of December in the yeare aforesaid Came the
                    said John Rousby by Robert Carvile his Attorny & offered himselfe
                    against the said Henry Tripp (who being then present in Court)
                    in the plea aforesaid and the said defendant then ref useing to plead
                    Ordered by the Court that the said Henry be committed into the
                    custody of the Sheriff of st Maries County untill he pleads and
                    give good Security to abide the judgment of the Court. At which
                    said first day of December in the same yeare Came the said Henry
                    Tripp with Thomas Taylor & Daniel Clarke of Dorchester County
                    Gent and the said Thomas Taylor & Daniel Clarke undertooke for
                    the said Henry Tripp that he the said Henry should stand to & abide
                    the judgment of the Court herein or render his body to the prison
                    of his Lopp the Lord Proprietary and that the said Henry Should
                    plead on the then morrow. On which morrow to wit the Second
                    day of December in the yeare aforesaid Came the said Henry by
                    Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny and defendeth the force & injury
                    when &c and saith he aiwayes was & Still is ready to accompt where-
                    upon it is the judgment of the Court here that the said Henry
                    accompt and that Auditors be appointed and doe appoint Capt
                    Philemon Loyd Wm ffoorde Edward Man and Wm Crosse or any
                    two of them to State and audite the accompts betweene the said
                    partyes and make their report thereof at the next Provinciall Court.

                   Baker Brooke Esq Thomas Wynne promiseth to give judgment
                       agt next Court to the plaintiff for two & twenty
                 Clement Hill    hundred pounds of tobacco whereupon this
                                 cause is continued untill next Court

                   Thomas Jones
                                     agt
                   John Jordaine