Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.    405

         have attached in the hands of Robert Ridgely the summe of tobacco Liber N N
         within mentioned as by this writ I am comanded
                                     Clement Hill Sheriff.
           Afterwards to wit the six & twentith day of April in the yeare
         aforesaid came the said James Rumsey by Robert Ridgely his At-
         torny & prayed judgment of the attachment aforesaid and that the
         said tobacco so attached as aforesaid may be condemned & delivered
         to the plaintiff and it is granted unto him together with the summe
         of nine hundred pounds of tobacco costs of suite according to the
         Act of Assembly in such case made & provided. And the said James
         Rumsey with Ninian Beale his suerty did acknowledge to owe to
         his Lopp the summe of five thousand six hundred pounds of tobacco
         in case the said James Rumsey doe not indempnifie the Court against
         all actions Suites or other matters that may happen touching or p.250
         concerning the said attachment and make restitution of the tobacco
         aforesaid or the value thereof in case the said Richard ffountaine or
         his Attorny doe within a yeare & a day come in & make his just &
         due defense & proceed in the said action in comön forme & make it
         appeare the plaintiffs are satisfied their just demands or any part
         thereof according to the true intent & meaning of the said Act of
         Assembly entituled an Act limitting the extent of attachments and
         providing what shall be levyed upon attachments & executions.

         Thomas Jones
             agt
         John Jordaine
         John England
             agt
         ffrancis Wyne admr
           Wm Marshall
         Proprietary
             agt
         Thomas Taylor      .
                        these six causes continued untill next Court.
         John Young
             agt
         John Larkin &
         Joseph Chew
         John Jordaine
             agt
         Thomas Jones
         Vincent Lowe
             agt
         Henry Mitchell

         Humphry Davenport
               agt
         Jonathan Hopkinson