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       Letters of Adcon to her granted of the Estate of the said Alexander, Liber N N
       that itt may appeare to the Court here, that of the said Alexanders
       Estate she is Admistx
         And the said Thomas by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh &
       defendeth the force & injury when &c and saith he is in no wise
       guilty of the prmisses above by the said Jane imposed upon him, & of
       this he putts himselfe upon the Country, & the said Jane likewise
       Therefore comand is given to the Sheriffe of st Maryes County that
       he cause to come here twelve &ca
         Now here att this day to witt the twentieth day of ffebruary in
       the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
       Annoq Doni One thousand six hundred seventy seven came aswell
       the parties aforesaid by their Attorneys And the Jurors of that
       Jury likewise came to witt Thomas Cosden Tho: Doxey, Henry
       Phippes, Richard Royston, John Askin, Raphael Haiwood, Tho:
       Pattison, Richard ifenwick, Philip Lynes, Tho: Keyting, Wm Thomas
       & Joseph Edloe who being impannelled Sumoned & Sworne to say
       the truth in the prmisses upon their Oaths doe say Wee finde for
       the plaintiffe two thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco with
       costs of suite Whereupon itt is granted by the Court here, that the
       said Jane Grey recover against the Estate of the said Jane Paine
       aswell the sume of two thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco
       damages occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as also the sume of
       Nine hundred ninety six pounds of tobacco costs of suite

       Mary Clements Exx The plaintiffe by Robert Carvile her Attorney
       of John Clements demanding from the defendts a plea to the decla
          agt       racon or that Judgemt might passe against them,
       Wm Orchard & for default thereof The defendts by Robert
       George LewenRidgely their Attorney craved tyme till Decem
       ber Court next, by reason itt was the concernes
       of Merchants in England, that Wm Combes ifactor of the Defendts
       might have tyme to write to his Imployers the Defendts about the
       said suite And that they the defendts were willing to giue good secur
       ity to abide the Judgemt of this Court att the tryall of the cause
       Whereupon itt is ordered by the Court here this day to witt the
       twentieth day of ffebruary Anno Doni 1677, that the said Defendts
       doe give good & sufficient security within fourteen dayes after the
       end of this Court before Colonell Henry Coursey such as the said
       Henry Coursey shall approve of, of the penalty of five hundred
       pounds stert (of which suerties he the said Wm Combes is accepted
       of by the Court to be one) that the said Defendts shall stand to &
       abide the Judgemt of this Court att the hearing of the said causes, &
       pay the Condemnacon of this Court & damages if the said defendts
       shall be cast In the said suite And that upon such security so given p. 416
       as aforesaid this Court further Ordered, that the said cause stand