102       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

           Liber N N   the Said John Creycroft and his assignes from the said foure &
                   twentith day of June untill the full end & terme of three yeares then
                   next Ensueing fully to be compleate & ended By virtue of which
                   said demise the said John Creycroft into the messuage & land afore
                   said with the appurtenncs entred & was in the possession thereof &
                   being so possest afterwards to wit the said foure & twentith day of
                   june the said John Burdit into the messuage & land aforesaid with
                   the appurtenncs which the said John & Barbara his wife in forme
                   aforesaid demised, which is not yet past entred & him from the pos
                   session thereof did eject and other harmes to him did, to the great
                   damage of the said John Creycroft & against the Peace of the said
                   Right Honble the Lord Proprietary &c whereupon he saith he is the
                   worse & hath damage to the value of thirty thousand pounds of
                   tobacco & thereupon he brings his suite.
                       Unlesse the Tenant in possession or they under whom he claimes
                       doe at the next Provinciall Court to be held for the Province
                       of Maryland the eight and twentith of November instant ap
                       peare to this declaration and make him or themselves defendant
                       thereunto and by rule of Court confesse lease entry and eject
                       ment and insist only upon the title, the defendant in this declara
                       tion will confesse judgment and possession will be delivered
                       accordingly to the plaintiff
                                              Your ifreind Jno Burdit
                                1st No. 1676
                       To Wm Winters alias Wintersell tenant in possession of the
                       prmisses above mentioned.
                     Afterwards to witt the six & twentith day of April in the second
                   yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Over this
                   Province Annoq Dom 1677 Came the Said John Creycroft by
                   Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny and Wm Combes & Elizabeth his
                   wife and Mary Roe widdow by Robert Carvile their Attorny But
                   because it appeared to the Court here that this action of Ejectment
                   was comenced by the said John Creycroft as Lessee to the said
                   John Rousby and Barbara his wife against John Burdit causuall
                   Ejector and the said Wm Combes & Elizabeth his wife and Mary Roe
                   widdow being named defendants instead of the casuall Ejector to
                   try the title to a parcell of land now in the tenure of the said
                   Wm Combes or Wm Winters otherwise called William Wintersell or
                   their assignes and being now in dispute betweene the said John
                   Rousby & the said Wm Combes & the Court finding it necessary
                   That the due lines and bounds of the Said parcell of Land called
                   Plimhimmon lyeing in Tredavon Creeke containeing six hundred
                   acres be Surveyed by a Skillful person according to the Originall Sur
                   vey and Patent granted to Henry Morgan deceased ffather to the
                   said Barbara and that a faire Plott & certificate thereof be returned
                   to the Court It is by the Court this day Ordered That Charles