306       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N  damage to the Value of One hundred thousand pds of tobacco &
                    thereupon he bringeth his suite
                     Unless the tenant in possession or they under whom he claymes
                    doe att the next Provinciall Court to be held for the Province of
                    Maryland the fourth day of Decembr next ensueing appeare to this
                    Declaracon & make him or themselves Defendts thereunto, & by rule
                    of Court confesse lease Entry & Ejectmt & insist only upon the title,
                    the Defendt in the Declaracon will confesse judgemt & possession
                    will be delivered accordingly to the plaintiffe.
               11th Octobr 1677                       Yor friend
                      To John Allen tenant in possession   John Lewellin
                       of the prmisses within menconed
                     Now here att this day to witt the ninth day of April in the third
                    yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annocp Doni
                    1678 Oath being made that John Allen tenant in possession of the
                    prmisses was served with a true copy of the above declaracon, who
                    being solemnly called appeared not neither by himselfe nor Attorney
                    to defend the prmisses Whereupon the said Tho: Gerard on the
                    behalfe of the lessor Benjamin Rozer Adr of Dominick Bodkin
                    prayed that judgemt might be awarded agt the said John Allen by
                    default And also prayed his Lordpps writt to cause him to haue
                    possession of prmisses with the appurtennces & itt is granted unto
                    him accordingly.

                    John ffawkes  John Evans late of Cecil County in the
                       agt Ejectmt Province of Maryland planter was Attached
                    John Evans jto Answer unto John ffawkes of the same
                    County Mrchant wherefore by force & armes
                    one Messuage & two hundred & fifty acres of land in Cecil County
                    aforesaid part of a tract of land called by the name of the folly
                p. 545  scituate & being on the East side of Chessepiake Bay in Turners
                    Creek in Sassafrax River with The appurtennces which Elizabeth
                    Carleton Widdow mother & Guardian of Mary Carleton & Elizabeth
                    Carleton Daughters & Coheyres of Tho: Carleton deceased in right
                    of the said Mary & Elizabeth demised to the said John for a terme
                    which is not yet past did enter & him from the possession thereof
                    did Eject & other harmes to him did to the great damage of the said
                    John and agt his Lordpps peace &c
                     And whereupon the said John ffawkes by Christopher Rousby
                    his Attorney saith, that whereas the said Elizabeth Carleton Mother
                    and Guardian of the said Mary & Elizabeth Carleton Daughters &
                    Coheyres of the said Tho: Carleton deceased in right of the said
                    Mary & Elizabeth the 6th day of Octobr in the yeare of our Lord
                    1677. in Cecil County aforesaid did Demise to him the said John
                    the said Messuage & two hundred & fifty acres of land aforesaid
                    with the appurtennces To have & to hold the same unto him the said