200       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N   Annoq Doni 1677 came the said parties by their Attorneys afore
                     said And the said George saith, that the said John his accon afore
                 p. 454  said against ought not To have, for that he saith, that whereas by
                     one Act of Assembly made att a Genll Assembly begun & held att the
                     City of st Maryes the day of April in the yeare of our
                     Lord One thousand six hundred sixty nine & by severall subsequent
                     Acts revived & continued & now standing in force Entituled an Act
                     for lymitacon of a certaine Actions for avoiding suites att Law, Itt
                     is amongst other things Enacted, that all accons of trespas, quare
                     clausum fregit, all accons of trespas, detinue, Sur Trover & Replevin
                     for takeing away Goods & Chattels, all accons of accompt, contract
                     debt booke & upon the case (other then such accompts as concerne the
                     trade of Mrchandize between Mrchant & Mrchant their ifactors &
                     Servants which are not resident within this Province) All accons
                     of debt for lending or contract without specialty, all accons of debt
                     for arrearages of rent, & all accons of Assault, menace, battery,
                     wounding & false Imprisonment or any of them which shall be sued
                     or brought by any person or persons within this Province att any
                     tyme after the end of that prsent Genll Assembly, shall be comenced
                     & sued within the tyrne & lymitacon thereafter expressed & not after,
                     that is to say, the said accons of the case (other then for slander) &
                     the said accons for accompt, & the said accons for trespas, debt,
                     detinue & Replevin for Goods & chattels, & the said accons of trespas,
                     quare clausum fregit within two yeares after the end of that prsent
                     Sessions of Assembly, or within two yeares after the cause of such
                     accon & not after As by the said Act relation being thereunto had
                     may more att large appeare And itt appearing by the said Johns
                     owne shewing in & by his declaracon, that the debt or duty by the
                     said John in & by the said Declaracon clayrned is of above nine yeares
                     standing, the said George therefore pleadeth the said Act of Assem
                     bly in barr of the said plaintiffes accon aforesaid, & demands Judgemt
                     if the said John his accon aforesaid against him ought to have. And
                     the said John Blomfeild refused to make further prosecution in this
                     suite, whereupon a Nonsuite was Awarded agt him And itt is granted
                     by the Court here, that the said George Yate recover against the
                     said John Blomfeild the sume of nine hundred & fifteene pounds of
                     tobacco for his costs & charges by him about his defence in this
                     behalfe laid out & expended And the said Jno in mercy for his false
                     claime

                     John Darwell Admr John Stone late of Charles County otherwise
                     Wm Ratcliffe called John Stone late of Charles County in the
                      agt          Province of Maryland gentt was sumoned to
                     John StoneAnswer unto John Darwell Admr of the Goods
                     & Chattels of Wm Ratcliffe deceased, in a plea
                     that he render unto him the sume of three thousand seven hundred
                     pounds of tobacco which from him he unjustly detaineth