226      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N Garret VSweringen Comand was given to the Sheriffe of St Maryes
                          agt County that he take Dominick Bodkin if he
                   Dominick Bodkin should be found in his bailywick, & him safe
                                   keep so that he have his body here the twelfth
                     day of ffebruary in the third yeare of his Lordpps Dominion &c to
                     Answer unto Garret VanSweringen in a plea of trespas upon the
                     case Which said twelfth day of ffebruary on Which the said Court
                     ought to have bin held was by his Lordpps Writt of Adjournmt
                     Adjourned untill the thirteenth day of the same month
                       Att which said thirteenth day of ffebruary the same Sheriffe mak
                     eth returne of the Writt aforesaid that the said Dominick Bodkin is
                     not found in his bailywick Whereupon the said Garret by Robert
                     Carvile his Attorney prayed an Attachmt agt the Estate of the said
                     Dominick Bodkin according to Act of Assembly in that case made &
                     provided & itt is granted unto him

                       Upon the peticon of Mary the wife of Morgan Jones, that the said
                     Morgan doth refuse to comply with & be obedient unto an order of
                     this Court made the twenty eighth day of Novembr Anno Doni 1676.
                     & forces her by ill usage from off the plantacon Insomuch that were
                     itt not for the charitable assistance & reliefe of her good neighbours,
                     she should ere this have perished
                       Now here att this day to witt the thirteenth day of ffebruary in
                     the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
                     Annoq Duni 1677 Itt i3 ordered, that the gaid Morgan Jones give
                     good security to performe the aforesaid order of the twenty eighth
                     day of Novembt And that the peticOnr Mary give good security to
                     this Court that she shall not criple maime or lame ffrancis Brown
                     who was allowed by the aforesaid order to fetch her wood & water

                       Wm Smith of Calvert County being Sumoned by Henry Mitchel
                     to testifie agt John Markes allowed the fifteenth day of ffebruary
                     1677 for their comeing goeing & attendance two hundred & forty
                     pounds of tobacco
                       Thomas Bowdie of Talbot County being sumoned by Henry
                     Mitchel to testifie in the same suite allowed three hundred pounds
                     of tobacco
                       Samuel Hatton John Youngman & Wm Wintersell of Talbot
                     County being Sumoned by John Rousby to testifie agt Wm Combes
                     are allowed each of them foure hundred & eighty pounds of tobacco.
                     the three & twentieth of ffebry 1677 John Morley of Talbot County
                     being Sumoned by Vincent Lowe Esqr to testifie against John Kern
                     ball is allowed for his comeing goeing & attendance Seven hundred
                     & fifty pounds of tobacco

                       Itt is this present day to witt the Eighteenth day of ffebruary
                     1677 agreed between us Christopher Rousby Attorney for Thomas