38        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

           Liber N N David Holt The plaintiff in ffebruary Court last brings his action
                     agt of Ejectment against the deft in the name of Thomas
                 John Paty Parsons plaintiff as feigned Lessee against John Lewis
                           deft the casuall Ejector for the tryall of his Title with
                   the Said John Paty to a certaine messuage or Tenement & fifty acres
                   of land with the Orchard Garden & appurtenncs to the same belong-
                   ing lyeing in St Georges Hundred in St Maries County On the east
                   side of the mouth of the Creeke called Wickliffes Creeke and bound-
                   ing On the north with a lyne drawne from a bite in the said Creeke
                   called Costines bite and extending East into the woods One hundred
                   and twenty pches or thereabouts On the East with a meridian line
                   drawne from the said End of the former line South through the
                   woods till it intersects a paralell line drawne from a marsh called
                   Country Marsh and On the South with the said parralell and in
                   March last the plt delivered to Thomas Hopkins the Tenant in pos-
                   session of the said Lands by virtue of Some lease from the said
                   John Paty a coppy of the declaration in ejectment according to rule
                   of Court and accordingly the said John Paty the fourth day of May
                   last by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny came & appeared and offered
                   himself e to defend the title and to be putt in defendant thereupon
                   day was given to both the Said parties till the first day of the then
                   next Court to try the title between the said parties Att which Said
                   Court to wit the Six and twentith day of November in the 44th yeare
                   of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom One thousand six hun-
                   dred Seaventy five Came aswell the Said David Halt by Robert
                   Carvile his Attorny and offered himself e against the said John Paty
                   for the tryall of the title aforesaid and the Said John Paty came
                   likewise by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny and Said nothing in barre
                   of the Said action but offered himself e ready to deliver up possession
                   to the Said David Holt Therefore it is granted that the said David
                   Holt against the said John Paty his possession of the houses Garden
                   Orchard and fifty acres of land aforesaid with the appurtenñcs above
                   specified together with the summe of five hundred Fifty Six pounds
                   of tobacco costs of Suite. And therefore it is Comanded the Sheriff
                   of St Maries County that to the said David Holt the said Sheriff
                   his full possession of the Messuage and premisses without delay to
                   him he give and how the Said precept is executed that the Said
                   Sheriff make it appeare here the eighth day of ffebruary next.

                  Charles Delaroch Thomas Beale late of st Maries County planter was
                      agt attached to answer unto Charles Delaroch in a
                  Thomas Beale plea of trespas upon the case.
                                And whereupon the Said Charles Delaroch by
                   Robert Ridgely his Attorny complaineth that whereas the Said
                   Thomas the 24th of November One thousand six hundred Seventy
                   three Stood indebted to the said Charles the Summe of eighteen
                   hundred Seventy and One pounds of tobacco being for tobacco paid