Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     57

        ffebruary instant to answer the Said Vincent Lowe Esq in the Liber N N
        premisses & the same day was given till the next day And thereupon
        Came then here the said John Babbidge by Robert Ridgly his At-
        torny especially admitted by the favour of the Court and prayeth the p. 36
        hearing of the information aforesaid and it is read unto him which
        being read and by him understood the said John Babbadge corn-
        plaineth him to be by colour of the premisses in the information
        Specified greviously troubled and unquieted & that not justly And
        yet for plea to the said information and as to the Supposed breach
        of the Act of Parliament in the Said information mentioned he the
        Said John Babbidge saith he is in nothing thereof guilty and of this
        he putts himselfe upon the Country and the said Vincent Lowe also
        therefore Comand is given to the Sheriff of st Maries County that
        he cause to Come here twelve &c Now here at this day to witt the
        eleventh day of ffebruary in the yeare aforesaid Came the said Vin-
        cent Lowe Esq and the said John Babbidge by Robert Ridgely his
        Attorny especially admitted by the favour of this Court and the
        jurors of that jury likewise Came to wit Thomas Bancks Guy White
        John Askin Joseph Edloe Thomas Pue George Dundas George
        ffenix Alexander Draper John Southy John Brookes Abraham
        Rhodes and Wm Turner who being impannelled Suthoned and
        sworne to say the truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe Say
        wee find for the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary Whereupon the
        said John by his Attorny aforesaid moved in arrest of judgment but
        not being able to invalid the verdict aforesaid It is the judgment of
        the Court here at this day to wit the twelfth day of ffebruary in the
        yeare aforesaid That the Ketch or Vessell called the Jacob of Biddi-
        ford is forfeited according to Act of Parliament.


        Richard Bayley Thomas Pagett late of Calvert County was attached
            agt to answer unto Richard Bayley in a plea of trespas
        Thomas Pagett upon the case.
                    And the said Thomas Pagett by John Rousby
        his Attorny cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c
        and prayeth licence to imparle here untill the next Provinciall Court
        the same day is given to both parties. Now here at this day to with
        the ninth day of ffebruary in the year One thousand six hundred
        seventy five came the Said Thomas Pagett by his Attorny afore-
        said and offered himself e agt the Said Richard in the plea aforesaid
        but the said Richard Came not to prosecute his plaint aforesaid
        Therefore it is granted by the Court here that the said Thomas
        Pagett recover against the said Richard Bayly the summe of
                      pounds of tobacco costs of suite and the said
        Richard in mercy &c.