Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    231

       John Rousby & uxr Comand was given to the Sheriffe of St Maryes Liber N N
             agt County, that whereas John Rousby & Barbara
       Wm Combes & uxr his wife in An action of Ejectmt agt Wm
        & Mary RoeCombes E!iza his wife & Mary Roe Exx of
        Edward Roe deceased recovered their posses
        sion of one Messuage & six hundred acres of land in Tredaven Creek
        called Plymhimmon lying in Talbot County And for as much as itt is
        not known what damages the said John Rousby & Barbara his wife
        have sustained by occasion thereof Itt was comanded the same Sher
        iffe that he cause to come here the one & twentieth day of ffebruary
        1677. twelve good & lawfull men of his bailywick well & truely to
        enquire of the dathages aforesaid Att which said one & twentieth
        day of ffebruary came the said John Rousby & the Jurors impan
        nelled being called likewise came to witt Thomas Cosden, Tho:
        Doxey, Richard Royston, Henry Phippes, John Askin, Tho: Patti-
        son, Richard ifenwick, Philip Lynes, Thomas Keyting, Wm Thomas
        & Joseph Edloe who being Elected tryed & sworne to say the truth
        in the prmisses doe say We finde for the plaintiffes seven thousand
        pounds of tob damages Whereupon itt is granted by the Court here,
        that the said John Rousby & Barbara his wilt recover agt the said
        Defendts as well the sume of Seven thousand pounds of tobacco
        damages by the said Jury in form aforesaid assessed As also the
        sume of six thousand & fifteen pounds of tobacco costs of suite

        Wm Young This action in Ejectmt being comenced by the said Wm
          agt Young as Lessee of John Serjeant & Mary his wife
       John Bell late wife of Edward Norman Guardians of Rosamond
                 Norman daughter & heyre of the said Edward Norman
        in right of the said Rosamond agt the said John Bell casuall Ejector
        to try the title to one messuage & one hundred acres of land lying
        on the South side of Chester River in Talbott County, being part
        of a parcell of land called Hinsons Addicoñ, & Robert Smith the
        tenant in possession of the prmisses being served with the Declara
        con in Ejectmt to appeare here in Decembr Court Anö 1677. & make
        himselfe or they under whom he claimed defendts thereunto & by
        rule of Court confessee Lease entry & Ejectmt & insist only upon the
        title which said Decembr on which the said Court ought to have bin
        held was by his Lordps Writts of Adjournmt adjourned untill the
        thirteenth day of ffebruary then next following Att which said thir
        teenth day of ffebruary came the said John Serjeant & Mary his
        wife by Christopher Rousby their Attorney, but    (being p. 481
        named defendt instead of the casuall Ejector) came not but made
        default Whereupon the said John & Mary prayed his Lordpps writt
        to cause them to have possession of the Messuage & land aforesaid
        with the appurtennces to be to them granted
          And thereupon itt is considered by the Court here this day to witt