344      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N for the sume of two thousand foure hundred pounds of tob & cask
                    together with costs & Court charges to the then high Sheriffe of Ann
                    Arundell County or his Deputy directed. by which said writt the
                    said Henry Stocket (then high Sheriffe of the said County) was
                    comanded in the name of the right Honble the Lord Propry to Levy
                    by way of Execucon as well the said debt as costs upon any the goods
                    debts or Chattells of the said Thomas Knighton in any part of the
                    said County, & the same so levyed to deliver into the hands of the
                    said Thomas Taillor Esqr or his order By vertue of which writt the
                    said Henry Stocket then high Sheriffe of the said County the Elev
                    enth day of ffebruary one thousand six hundred seventy five in the
                    tobacco house of the said Thomas Knighton att Herring Creeke in
                    the said County of Ann Arundell did Levy by way of Execucön
                    aforesaid about twelve hundred pounds of tobacco lying then in
                    bulke ready to be packed & almost five roomes of tobacco then hang
                    ing in the said tobacco house being by estimacon about fourteen
                    hundred pds of tobacco in all by estimacon two thousand six hun
                    dred pds of tobacco of the proper tobacco of the said Thomas
                    Knighton, & then & there did marke the said tobacco house with
                    the broad arrow (according to the usuall custome of this Province
                    of Maryland) which hath hitherto bin allowed & approved of to be a
                    good & legall seizure upon Execucons Notwithstanding the said
                    Robert Peca not being ignorant of the prmisses, & knowing that the
                    said Henry then high Sheriffe had Levyed tobacco aforesaid &
                    marked the said house with the broad arrow aforesaid, & meaning &
                    intending the same Sheriffe of the said two thousand six hundred
                    pounds of tobacco craftily & subtily to deceive, afterwards the six
                    teenth day of ffebruary one thousand six hundred seventy five att
                    the tobacco house aforesaid with force of armes the said two thou
                    sand six hundred pds of tobacco out of the custody of the said
                    Sheriffe did take & the same did convey to places unknown unto the
                    said Henry then Sheriffe, whereby the said Henry hath not only
                    sustained & expended divers labours & expences in seeking after the
                    said two thousand six hundred pds of tobacco, but also hath wholy
                    lost the said debt & Court Charges by reason of the conveying afore
                  said Whereupon He saith that he is the worse & hath losse to the
                    Value of two thousand nine hundred ninety nine pds of tobacco &
                    thereupon he bringeth his suite Pleg de pts Jno Doe
                                                       Richd Roe
                       Geo: Parker p quer
                     And the said Robert by Thomas Bland his Attorney comes &
                    defends the force & injury &c & saith he is not guilty of the trespasse
                    in manner & forme & thereupon he putts himselfe upon the Countrey
                    Tho:    Bland & the plaintiffe likewise George Parker—Wherefore
                    cofñand is given to the Sheriffe that he cause to come before his
                    Lopps Justices of Ann Arundell County in Court setting on the day