422        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N  to witt the 20th day of the same April came the said partyes & in-
                   formes the Court that they were upon arbitration by Leiut Collonel
                   Thomas Taillor & Major Wm Burges whereupon the plaintiff con-
                   sents that the said Thomas Bland be discharged Out of Custody.

                    Comand was given the Sheriff of Calvert County That of the
                   goods & chattells of Thomas Bowdie if &c he cause to be made
                   aswell the summe of seaven thousand six hundred & nine pds of
                   tobacco a certaine debt recovered agt him the 7th of December 1676
                   by Wm Trego Michael Pope & Compa whereof he is convict as also
                   eight hundred forty One pounds of tobacco costs of suite & when
                   he had the same so made or any part thereof the same in his custody
                   Keepe so that he have the same here the 13th of ffebrury then next
                   ensueing to render unto the said Wm Trego Michael Pope & Compa.
                    Att which said 13th of ffebruary the same sheriff returneth not the
                   writ aforesaid but on the 17th day of April 1677 the same sheriff
                   returneth the same endorsed.
                   April the 12th 1677
                    Then received of Thomas Bowdell the full contents the within
                   written & doe full & absolutely acquitt & discharge the said Bowdell.
                   wittnes my hand.               William Trago.
                   Testes Jno Love. Richard Smith junor.

                          p. 261 230 January 1676.
             To the Honble the Deputy Governour & the rest of the justices
                          of the Provinciall Court
                    In pursuance of yt Honrs Order beareing date the first day of
                   December last past made in a cause depending before yr HonTs in the
                   Provinciall Court betweene Richard Speed plt & Edward Erbery &
                   Compa defts whereby I am Ordered to prepare & draw up an order
                   for yr Honrs purrusall in relation to attachments & goods attached &
                   condemned thereupon, I have drawne up & prepared an Order & rule
                   of Court which I have hereunto annexed and which I humbly Submit
                   to the consideration of yr Honrs grave judgment.
                                             yr Honrs
                                                most Obedient Servant
                                                     Ro:  Carvile.
              Richard Speed plt
                                        Pro Decemr 1676.
                   Edward Erbery & Compa defts
                    Upon motion this day made to this Court by the pits Council it
                   was alleadged that the plt being a master of a Shipp, had brought
                   his action against the defts to reimburse his damages by him sus-
                   teined & monyes by him paid to the right Honble the Lord Propry
                   upon a bill of exchange charged by him on the deft being his owner
                   & imployer, which bill came in protested & was putt in suite here agt
                   the plt and judgment had agt him which to his great damage he had