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        John & his assignes from the said sixth day of October untill the Liber N N
        full end & terme of three yeares from thence next Ensueing & fully
        to be compleat & ended By vertue of which said Demise the said
        John into the said Messuage land & prmisses aforesaid with the
        appurtennces entred & was in possession thereof, & being so possessed
        afterwards to witt the first day of Novembr in the said yeare of our
        Lord 1677. the said John Evans into the said Messuage land &
        prmisses aforesaid with the appurtennces which the said Elizabeth
        Carleton to him the said John ffawkes in manner & forme aforesaid
        had Demised for the terme aforesaid Which is not yet past entred
        & him from the possession thereof did Eject & other harmes to him
        did to the great damage of the said John & agt his Lordps peace &c
        And whereupon he saith he is the worse & hath losse to the Value
        of sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he brings his
        suite
          Unless the tenant in possession or they under whom he claimes
        doe att the next Provinciall Court to be held att the Cittyof St Maryes
        the ninth day of April next appeare to the Declaracon abovesaid, &
        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
        deliuered accordingly to the pfl
To Edward Williams tenant in possession  Yor friend
 of the prmisses above menconed           John Evans
          Now here att this day to witt the thirteenth day of April in the
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
        Doni 1678. Edward Williams tenant in possession of the prmisses
        being solemnly called appeared not neither by himself e nor Attorney
        to defend the prmisses Whereupon the said John ffawkes prayed
        that judgemt might be awarded agt the said Edward Williams by
        default And also by Christopher Rousby his Attorney prayed his
        Lordpps writt to cause him to have possession of the prmisses with
        the appurtennces & itt is granted unto him accordingly
        Henry Jowles   In Ejectment
           agt Wm Parker late of Calvert County genti was at
        Wm Parker tached to Answer unto Henry Jowles genl of a plea
                  wherefore with force & armes one Messuage & twenty
        five acres of land being the one Half e or moiety of fifty acres of land p. 546
        scituate lying & being in the said County of Calvert, laid out of two
        hundred acres of land late in the possession of one James Thompson,
        begining att the Easternmost bounds of the said land att a marked
        stake in a marsh by the side of Petuxent River with a line drawne
        West by North upon the said River for the breadth of forty perches
        to a bound white Oak by the said Marsh, then with a line drawne
        North East unto the woods for the length of two hundred perches