302      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N Richard Moy in his life tyme nor to the said Elizabeth since his
                    death, nor to the said Henry Robert or Clement since the death of
                    the said Eliza though often thereunto requested but the same to pay
                p. 541 hath hitherto & still doth deny to the damage Of the said Henry
                    Robert & Clement foure thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon
                    they bring their suite And they bring into Court here their Letters
                    testamentory by which itt may appeare to the Court here that they
                    are EXT8 & have Adcon
                     And the said Thomas Potter by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
                    cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty
                    to imparle hereunto untill next Court & itt is granted unto him the
                    said day is given to the plaintiffes also
                     Now here att this day to witt the Eleventh day of April in the
                    third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
                    Doni came the said plaintiffes And the said Thomas by his Attorney
                    aforesaid saith, that the said Robert his accon aforesaid ought not,
                    for that he the said Thomas saith that he hath fully Administred all
                    the Goods & Chattels which were the said George Marshall att the
                    tyme of his death, & that he hath no Goods & Chattells in his hands
                    of the said George Marshall att the tyme of his death to be Ad
                    ministred att the tyme of the writt of him the said Robert nor att any
                    tyme after, & this he is ready to averr, & prayes judgemt whether
                    the said Robert his action ought &c And the said Robert &c saith he
                    ought not to be barred from his action, for that he saith the said
                    Thomas att the tyme of the issueing of the said writt had & now
                    hath Goods & Chattels in his hands of the said George Marshalls
                    Estate, & this he prayes may be enquired of by the Countrey And
                    the said Thomas Potter also. Therefore comand is given to the
                    Sheriffe of St Maryes County that he cause to come here twelve &c
                    by whom &c who neither &c to recognize &c because as well &c And
                    the Jurors impannelled being called likewise came to witt Richard
                    Lloyd, Edward Husbands, Robert Potts, Nicholas Cooper, Tho:
                    Courtney, Richard Masham, John King, Joshua Guibert, John Askin,
                    Stephen Gough, Gilbert Turbervile & Thomas Smith who being
                    Elected tryed & sworne to say the truth in the prmisses upon their
                    Oaths doe say We finde for the plaintiffes Therefore itt is granted
                    by the Court here that the said Henry Robert & Clement Exrs as
                    aforesaid recover agt the Estate of the said George Marshall the
                    sume of two thousand two hundred & one pounds of tobacco debt
                    As also twelvae hundred & six pounds of tobacco costs of suite
                    Anthony Male   In Ejectmt
                       agt    James Murphy late of Talbott County planter was
                    James Murphy Attached to Answer unto Anthony Male of the
                              same County planter wherefore by force & armes
                    one Messuage & two hundred & twenty five acres of land comonly
                    called by the name of Holden lying & being in the said County of