Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     139
       Marke Cordea                                Liber N N
           agt
       Wm Coleborne
                   these two causes are agreed.
       Richard Pery
          agt
       John Baker

       Elizabeth Hopkinson admrx
         of Jonathan Hopkinson
            ag            those two causes abate by intermar
       John Edmondson
                     riage of the plaintiff
       ifrances Hide
          agt
       Garret Vansweringen

      Stephen Murty the Sheriff of Charles County haveing returned a p.402
          agt Cepi & Languidus in this cause & the defendant
     Robert Needham   not appeareing day is given to the said Sheriff to
                   bring the defendant next Court or else to be
                            amerced.

      ffrancis Hill
          agt
       Mathew Warde
             these two causes abate the defendant being dead
       the same                              b
         agt
       the same

         Upon the Petition of George Parke gent One of the Attornyes
       of this Court That he being retained in Severall causes depending in
       this Court most of them ready for tryall But it hath pleased God to
       visitt him with Sicknesse and weakenesse that he is not at present
       able to give his attendance here as he ought & indeed would have
       done had he been in health & feareing that his Clients may Suffer
       damage by his being absent, prayes the consideration of his present
       Sicke & weake Condition & to lett such causes wherein he is con
       cerned be continued untill the end of the Court that so if it please
       God to give him Strenght he may be here if otherwise to continue
       the same untill the next Court. Whereupon it is Ordered the second
       of October One thousand six hundred Seventy Seaven That all
       causes wherein the Petitioner is concerned be referred to the last
       day of this Court & then if he cometh not then to be referred untill
       the next Court

       October the 4th 1677
         It is the Opinion of the Court here that Thomas Gent if he will
       undertake to Keepe a fferry over the ffreshes of Petuxent River he
       may have a lycence to Keepe an Ordinary there.