32        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

            Liber N N  said Thomas Taylor planter in Dorchester County an assault did
                   make and him did beate wound and evill handle and him imprisoned
                   and so imprisoned a long time deteined and other enormities to him
                   did to the damage of him the said Thomas Taylor planter and against
                   the peace &c.
                     And whereupon the Said Thomas Taylor planter by Kenelm
                   Cheseldyn his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said Thomas
                   Taylor Gent the fiftenth day of ffebruary in the year of Our Lord
                   One thousand Six hundred Seventy three and in the two & fortith
                   yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c in Dorchester County afore-
                   said with force and armes to wit with swords Staves & Knives on
                   him the said Thomas Taylor planter did make an assault and him
                   did beate wound & evil handle and him So in prison against the Law
                   a long time that is to say by the Space of One whole day detained
                   without any reasonable cause to the damage of the said Thomas
                   Taylor planter five thousand pounds of tobacco & against the peace &c
                   & thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
                     And the Said Thomas Taylor Gent by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                   Cometh & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty
                   to imparle here untill next Court the same day is given to both parties.
                     Now here at this day Came the plaintiff and defendant by their
                   Attornyes aforesaid to wit the five and twentith day of Novem-
                   ber in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c & the Said
                   Thomas Taylor Gent Saith that he is in nowise guilty of the trespas
               p. 21   of assault battery and imprisonment by the Said Thomas Taylor
                   planter above against him and complained off and of this he putts
                   himself upon the Country and the plaintiff likewise Therefore it is
                   Comanded the Sheriff that he cause to come here twelve &c After-
                   wards to wit the Six & twentith day of November in the yeare afore-
                   said Came aswell the plaintiff & defendant by their Attornyes afore-
                   said and the jurors of that jury Came likewise to wit Henry Tripp
                   James Nuthall Edward Roe Richard Bayley George Marshall Walter
                   Hall David Holt Daniel Clocker Wm King Joseph Edloe Thomas
                   Doxey and Ralph Blackhall who being impannelled Summoned &
                   Sworne to Say the truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe say
                   They find for the plaintiff But because it appeareth not to the Court
                   here what damages the plaintiff hath susteined by occasion of the
                   trespas assault battery & imprisonmnt aforesaid it is comanded the
                   jurors aforesaid that they diligently enquire thereof which said Jurors
                   upon their Oathes doe Say Wee the jurors doe find for the plaintiff
                   two thousand pounds of tobacco damages. Therefore it is Considered
                   by the Court here that the said Thomas Taylor planter recover
                   against the said Thomas Taylor Gent aswell the summe of two thou-
                   sand pounds of tobacco for his damages occasioned by the trespas
                   assault battery and imprisonmt aforesaid as also the sume of two
                   thousand five hundred fifty Six pounds of tobacco costs of Suite.