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        Law of this land to put in any Answer To the said plaintiffes said Liber N N
        Declaracon And therefore doth Demurre in Law thereunto And for 526
        cause of Demurrer according to the Statute in that case made & pro
        vided he saith, that the place or places where the said plaintiffe hath
        laid his said accon, & supposeth the said pretended trespas to be done
        to witt the Citty of Amsterdam in New Netherlands & the Weighouse
        of the same Citty are forreigne & not within this Province of Mary
        land nor any part thereof, nor within the Dominion of his Lordpp
        the Lord ProprY of this Province And therefore are not within the
        Jurisdiction of this Court And this Court cannot hold plea or take
        Conusance of the same accon Wherefore the said Raymond demands
        Judgemt if he shall be compelled to make any further or other Answer
        to the said plaintiffes said Declaracon.
          And the said Jacques Causeene saith, that he by any thing before
        alleadged ought not to be debarred from haveing his action aforesaid,
        because he saith that the said Citty of Amsterdam in the New Nether
        lands is now in the possession of his Matie the King of England that
        now is, & the said Citty is now called by the name of New Yorke And
        that the said Jacques & the rest of tlic Inhabitants of the 3aid Citty
        are now subjects to, & under the proteccon & Allegeance of his Matie,
        the King of England that now is, & therefore right hath to comence
        his action aforesaid in the Court of the said Lord Propry of this
        Province And that the Conusance of the said action is within the
        Jurisdiction of this Court, & this he is ready to averr, & thereupon
        demands Judgemt & his damages. Which being read & heard & by
        the Court here fully understood, itt seemeth to the same Justices here
        that the Declaracon aforesaid of the said Jacques Causeene informe
        aforesaid made & declared, & the matter in the same contained are
        sufficient in Law to maintaine him the said Jacques to have his action
        aforesaid agt the said Raymond Therefore itt is considered that the
        said Jacques recover agt the said Raymond his damages by occasion
        of the trespas aforesaid But because itt is not known what damages
        the said Jacques Causeene hath sustained by occasion of the prmisses
        Itt is ordered by the Court that a Writt of Inquiry of damages issue
        returnable next Provinciall Court

       John  Burridge Elizabeth Greene Widdow late of St Maryes County
           agt & Tho: Potter late of St Maryes County otherwise
        Eliza Green & called Elizabeth Greene Widdow & Thomas Potter
      Tho: Potter planter were Sumoned to Answer unto John Bur
                  ridge of a plea that they render unto him the full &
        just Sume of three thousand one hundred thirty & eight pounds of
        good sound Mrchantable tobacco & cask which to him they owe &
        unjustly detaine
          And whereupon the said John Burridge by Robert Ridgely his
        Attorney saith, that whereas the said Elizabeth & Thomas the eight