358      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  nesses, when yor Honors shall thinke fitt to appoint, Yet these re
                   spondents doe say, that they needed not nor by the law of the land
                   were bound to answer the same before yor Honors for that the said
                   Alford upon a penall Statute informes agt Moadesly, & assignes his
                   breach, he followes itt as well for the Lord Propry as himselfe &
                   att last obtaines judgemt as well for his Lopp as himself e. If the said
                   Judgemt were erroneous, Moadesly had his legall course to remedy
                   himself e, & without he had given security & sued out a Writt of
                   Error the said Justices humbly conceive he ought to have no supse
                   deas upon such a scandalous peticön; but that upon the same these
                   respondts his Lopps Justices of the said County should be brought
                   over here before yor Honors to answer itt, they say That for every
                   judgemt they give & for every mistake of their Clerke for the future
                   they may be liable to the same trouble vexation & expence, so that
                   by serving his Lopp as his Justices in the said County, the malice
                   of a few discontented envious persons may bring them so often
                   over before yor Honors to answer their proceedings, & to shew a
                   reason for & give accompt of their judgements that they may in a
               p. 590  short tyme with the charges & expences thereof be Ruinated im
                   poverished & undone These respondents doubt not but yor Honors
                   in a legall way will doe justice to Moadesly, & also to Alford, but
                   humbly pray that they may be hence dismissed with their costs &
                   charges in this behalf e wrongfully & vexatiously sustained
                     Which being read & heard itt seemeth to the Justices here this day
                   to witt the eleventh day of June in the third yeare of the Dominion
                   of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1678. that the Record &
                   proces & all proceedings thereupon agt the aforesaid James Moadesly
                   are altogether vitious & illegall Itt is therefore this day ordered that
                   the whole proceedings & Record of the County Court of Dorchister
                   County in this cause be adnulled vacated & made void upon the
                   Record of the said County Court And that reference be had in the
                   margent of the aforesaid Record to the folio where the proceedings
                   of this Court & this order shall be entred upon Record of the said
                   County Court And that the said James Moadesly be left to due course
                   of Law for recovery of his charges & damages in this behalfe
                   expended.
                   John Wade    In Ejectmt
                     agt John Slye late of St Maryes County was Attached to
                   John Slye answer unto John Wade of a plea wherefore with force
                            & armes one tract of land lying in Charles County called
                   by the name of Coomes Purchase containing two hundred & fifty
                   acres. Also one other tract of land called by the name of Green
                   Spring lying in Calvert County containing Seven hundred acres with
                   the appurtennces which Peter Sayer did Demise to the said John
                   Wade for a terme which is not yet past he did enter, & him from the