48         Provincial Court Proceedings,

             Liber N N William Worgan Comand was given the Sheriff of Talbott County
                      agt      that he attach any the goods or Chattells of David
                               David Williamson Williamson if &c to the value of Sixteene hun-
                               dred pounds of tobacco & when he had the same
                   So attached or any part thereof the same in his Custody Keepe untill
                   the said David shall by himselfe or Attorny appeare here the Sixtenth
                   day of November in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c
                   to answer unto wm Worgan in a plea that he render unto him the
                   summe of twelve hundred pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth
                   & unjustly deteineth Att which Said Sixtenth day of November the
                   Said Sheriff maketh returne of the writ aforesaid and endorsed.
                   This attachment Served On two bills belonging to the within named
                   David Williamson by Vincent Lowe Sher Augt 4th 1675.

                   James Whetcomb Comand was given to the Sheriff of Somersett
                       agt County that he take Henry Smith late of his said
                   Henry SmithCounty merchant if &c So that he have his body
                   here the Sixtenth day of November in the 44th
                   yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c to answer unto James Whet-
                   comb of Boston in New England merchant of a plea that he render
                   unto him his reasonable accompt of the time he was receivor of the
                   goods and merchandizes of him the said James & which to him to
                   make he ought.
                    Att which said Sixtenth day of November the Said Sheriff maketh
                   returne that the said Henry Smith is not found in his Bailiwick
                   whereupon the said James by Robert Ridgely his Attorny prayeth
                   an attachment against the goods & Chattells of the said Henry accord-
                   ing to act of Assembly in Such case made and provided and it is
                   granted unto him.

                   Garret   Vansweringen Comand was given to the Sheriff of st Maries
                       agt County that he attach any the Goods or Chat
                   Mathias Decosta    tells of Mathias Decosta if &c to the value of
                   ten thousand pounds of tobacco and when he
                   had the same So attached or any part thereof the same in his custody
                   Keepe untill the said Mathias should by himselfe or Attorny appeare
                   here the ninth day of ffebruary in the 43th years of the Dominion of
                   Caecilius to answer unto Garret Vansweringen of a plea that he
                   render unto him the summe of Eight thousand pounds of tobacco
                   which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth Att which Said ninth
                   day of ffebruary in the yeare aforesaid the same Sheriff maketh
                   returne that the said Mathias attached is by three thousand pounds
                   of tobacco. Now here at this day to witt the Six & twentith day of
                   November in the 44th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c it is granted
                   by the Court here that scire facias issue to the Sheriff to make
                   Knowne to the persons who are indebted unto the said Mathias
                   that they be & appeare here to shew cause if any they have why exe-
                   cucön should not issue out against them.