Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     439

         & Sworne to say the truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe Liber N N
         Say Wee find for the plaintiff according to agreement Seaven thou-
         sand pounds of tobacco with costs of suite. Whereupon it is granted
         by the Court here that the said Jonathan Sibrey recover against the
         Said Edward Gunnell aswell the summe of seaven thousand pounds
         of tobacco damages occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as also the
         summe of One thousand & fourteen pounds of tobacco costs of suite
         & the said Edward in mercy.

         Joseph Edloe Henry Rider late of st Maries County was attached p. 273
            agt   to answer unto Joseph Edloe admr of the goods &
        Henry Rider     chattells of John Edloe deceased of a plea of trespas
                   upon the case.
           And whereupon the Said Joseph by Robert Carvile his Attorny
         Saith that the said Jno Edloe being in his life time possessed of cer-
         tame beasts that is to say of a redd Cow cropt & a hole in the right
         eare & over halved on the left of the price of eight hundred pounds
         of tobacco & a yearling redd Bull calf e the encrease of the Cow of
         the price of two hundred pounds of tobacco & another redd Cow
         cropt & a hole in the left care & two nicks on the right with a calfe
         sucking on her price One thousand pounds of tobacco of the proper
         goods & chattells of the Said John Edloe he the Said John in Decem-
         ber Anno Doth 1675 dyed So possessed, after whose death Letters
         of administracon of the goods and chattells of the Said John were
         On the tenth day of January by the Honble Philip Calvert Esq judge
         for probate of wills and granting administrations &c in due forme
         of Law committed to the said Joseph By virtue whereof he is become
         justly intitled to the said beasts & their encrease, which beasts after
         the death of the said John Edloe that is to Say the first day of
         January 1675 at St Jeromes in st Maries County to the hands &
         possession of the Said Henry Rider by finding came notwithstanding
         the Said Henry Knowing the beasts aforesaid to be the proper beasts
         of the said John & to the Said Joseph by virtue of the administracon
         aforesaid of right to belong and appurteine craftily & fraudulently
         intending the Said Joseph in that behalfe craftily & Subtilly to
         defraud & deceive the beasts with their encrease to the said Joseph
         though often thereunto requested hath not delivered but the beasts
         aforesaid that is to Say the first day of ffebruary 1675 at St Jeromes
         aforesaid to his owne proper use & pfitt converted & disposed to the
         losse of the said Joseph five thousand pounds of tobacco & there-
         upon he bringeth his Suite. And the Said Joseph bringeth here in
         Court his Letters of admcon by which it may appeare to the Court
         here he hath right of administraoön
           And the Said Henry Rider by John Jones his Attorny Saith he
         is not guilty as above is exprest & putts himself e upon the Country &
         the plaintiff also. Therefore it is comanded the Sheriff that he cause