356      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

                           Liber N N Tho: Waghob
                                    agt
                   Jacobus Loton
                   Geo:     Tite

                   Clement Hill These five actions are agreed
                                 Tho: Jones
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                                 Wm ffurnes
                                 Moyes Exrs
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                   Margery Stone
                   Exx Matt: Stone

             p. 588          To the Honble Thomas Notley Esqr Governor & chiefe
                             Justice of Maryland & to the rest of his Lopps Justices
                             of the Provinciall Court
                   James Moadesly     The Answer of Wm Stevens, John Brooke,
                       agt Henry Tripp, Stephen Gary, Bartholomew
                   the Comrs of Dorchister Ennalls & Henry Bradley genti his Lopps
                   CountyJustices of peace for his County of Dor
                   chister within this Province, to the peticoń
                   of James Moadesly of Dorchister County planter exhibitted by the
                   said Moadesly agt these respondents before yor Honors & upon which
                   yot Honrs were pleased to order the respondents to appeare & answer
                   the prmisses
                     These respondents say, that the said Moadesly was by the County
                   Court of Dorchister County appointed Overseer of the high wayes of
                   Armitage Hundred the said three yeares as by his peticoń he hath sett
                   forth but that the same was done att the request & by the speciall
                   desire of the said Moadesly, itt being (as he pretended) for his owne
                   conveniency to see the high wayes of the said Hundred well & suffi
                   ciently repayred
                     These respondents further say, that the said Moadesly was prsented
                   by John Alford to the grand jury of the said County of Dorchister
                   att a Court there holden the seventh day of Novembr one thousand
                   six hundred seventy seven for neglect of his Office of Overseer of the
                   highwayes, & by the said Grand Jury was found fineable two thou
                   sand pds of tobacco for the same And thereupon afterwards the tenth
                   of Novembr following, the Court haveing first ordered the Clerke to
                   issue forth Sumons for the said Moadesly to shew cause (if any he
                   had) why he should not be fined according to the said Act of As
                   sembly upon the said prsentment, & the said Court being then fully
                   informed of his the said Moadeslys due service with the said Sumons,
                   they were of opinion that the said Moadesly ought to pay the said
                   ffine according to Act of Assembly in that case provided