Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     33

        Thomas Taylor planter Thomas Taylor late of Dorchester County Liber N N
              agt       Gent was attached to answer unto Thomas
        Thomas Taylor Gent Taylor planter in a plea wherefore by force
                        and armes the tobacco house of him the
        Said Thomas Taylor planter in the County aforesaid did breake
        and three hogesheads of tobacco then and there being of the proper
        goods and Chattells of him the said Thomas Containeing neate
        thirteene hundred and two pounds of tobacco did take and carry
        away to the damage of the said Thomas and against the Peace &c.
          And whereupon the Said Thomas Taylor planter by Keneim
        Cheseldyn his Attorny complaineth that whereas the Said Thomas
        Taylor Gent the fiftenth day of March in the yeare One thousand six
        hundred Seventy three with force & armes the tobacco house of him
        the said Thomas Taylor planter in Dorchester County aforesaid did
        breake & three hogesheads of tobacco containeing neate the summe
        of thirteen hundred and two pounds of tobacco then & there being
        of the proper goods and Chattels of him the said Thomas Taylor
        planter did take and carry away to the damage of the Said Thomas
        Taylor planter the Summe of Seaven thousand pounds of tobacco
        and thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
          And the Said Thomas Taylor Gent by Robert Carvile his Attorny
        cometh & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty
        of Speakeing hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court the same
        day is given to both parties here.
          Now here at this day to wit the Sixth & twentith day of November
        in the foure & fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came
        the said plaintiff and defendant by there Attornyes aforesaid & the
        said defendant Saith that he is in no wise guilty of the trespas by the
        said Thomas Taylor planter above against him complained off and
        of this he putts himselfe upon the Country and the plaintiff likewise
        Therefore it is Comanded the Sheriff that he cause to come here
        twelve &c. Which said jurors likewise came to wit John Gittings
        Wm Thomas Arthur Wright Peter Watts John Tant Richard
        Meekins Wm Hemsley Wm Jones Jno Brookes Jno Hollins Henry
        Turner & Henry Exon who being impannelled Sumoned and Sworne
        to say the truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe Say Wee
        find for the plaintiff nine hundred forty two pounds of tobacco and
        three hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco damages for two yeares
        deteining of the said nine hundred forty two pounds of tobacco
        Therefore it is Considered by the Court here that the said Thomas
        Taylor planter recover against the said Thomas Taylor Gent the
        summe of twelve hundred flinty two pounds of tobacco for his dam-
        ages occasioned by this trespas aforesaid as also the Summe of two
        thousand five hundred eighty Six pounds of tobacco for his Costs
        and charges in this behalfe laid Out and expended and the said
        Thomas Taylor Gent in mercy.