Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     397

         & Testament of Edward Gardner deceased appointed Supervisor Liber N N
         or Overseer of his said Will & by his request upon his death bed to
         pay all his just debts as farr as assetts & to defend his Estate from
         all unjust & unreasonable demands for & in the behalf e of two Small
         Orphants whom his inclination & good affections caused him make
         them or One of them his executor or executrix in his said Will the
         better to accomplish and performe that trust in the petitioner reposed
         did petition his Honr the Chancellour for Letters of administration,
         By virtue of which he did to the best of his Skill & Knowledge use
         his faithfull Endeavour paying all just debts as farr as Assetts in
         his hands endeavouring to defend the same from all unjust & unrea-
         sonable demands notwithstanding all which care trouble & charge
         he hath been at & yett is most unjustly & unreasonably troubled &
         much dampnified by Thomas Bland of the said County, who sued
         the said Gardner in his life time in the County Court of Ann Arun-
         deli upon his promise to pay the said Thomas Blands wife then a
         widdow a satisfie her for her trouble & charge in suffering 2
         widdow to lye sick in her house One & twenty dayes, for which the
         said Bland exhibitted into Court an accompt of One & twenty hun-
         dred pounds of tobacco for phisick & Cordiall meanes, which the
         justices then sitting judged unreasonable & not fitt to be allowed
         being for phisick administred (as pretended) by Damoris his wife.
         Whereupon the said Bland commenced an action in this Provinciall
         Court against the said Hill as administrator &c & obtained judgment
         against the said Gardners estate for foure hundred pounds of tobacco
         with costs of suite, upon which judgment he Surreptitiously obtained
         an execution for costs of suite being One thousand & forty pounds
         of tobacco, to be levyed upon the Petitioners proper estate, which
         being vitiously granted he humbly prayeth may be suspended & his
         owne rideing horse which was by virtue thereof taken may againe
         be restored. Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that a writ
         of restitution be granted unto the said Richard Hill with costs.

         Edward Pynn
            agt
         Charles James the defendants by Christopher Rousby their At-
         Arthur Young torny appeare & imparle untill next Court.
            agt
         Edward Gibbs

         Dominick Bodkin & Redmond
          ffitz Gerald
            agt
         John ffanning
                             the defendants by Kenelm Chesel
         Dominick Bodkin          .
           a                 dyn their Attorny appeare & imparle
           g                 untill the next Court.
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