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        same did Eject & other harmes to him did to the damage of him the Liber N N
        said John Wade & agt the peace &c
          And whereupon the said John Wade by Kenelm Cheseldyn his
        Attorney complaineth, that whereas the said Peter Sayer the twen
        tieth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand six hun
        dred Seventy six did demise the said two tracts of land aforesaid
        with the appurtennces to him the said John Wade To have & to
        occupy to him & to his assignes from the said twentieth day of June
        aforesaid in the yeare aforesaid unto the end & terme of three yeares
        then next following fully to be compleat & ended By vertue of which
        Demise the aforesaid John Wade into the aforesaid two tracts of
        land did enter & so being thereof possessed with the appurtennces
        the said John Slye afterwards to witt the 20th day of July in the
        yeare aforesaid with force & armes the said two tracts of land in
        forme aforesaid with the appurtenñces demised for a terme not yet
        past did enter, & him from the same did eject & other harmes &c and
        agt the peace &c Whereupon the said John Wade saith he is damnified
        twenty thousand pds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
          Unlesse the tenant in possession or they under whom he claimes
        appeare the next Provinciall Court to this Declaracon & make him
        or themselves Defendts thereunto, & by rule of Court confesse Lease p. 591
        entry & Ejectmt & insist only upon the title, the defendt in this Decla
        racOn will confesse judgemt & possession will accordingly be delivered
        to the plaintiffe.
         To Mr John Allen tenant in possession
            of the prmisses within mencOned
          Now here att this day to witt the fifteenth day of June in the
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
        Doni 1678. came Wm Wells of Charles County & made Oath in open
        Court, that he delivered to Mr John Allen tenant in possession of the
        prmisses a true copy of the abovesaid declaracon And the said John
        Allen being solemnly called appeared not neither by himselfe nor
        Attorney to defend the prmisses, whereupon the said John Wade by
        Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney on the behalfe of the Lessor Peter
        Sayer prayed that judgemt might be awarded agt the said John Allen
        by default And also prayed his Lopps Writt to cause him to have
        possession of the prmisses with the appteñces & itt is granted unto
        him accordingly
        John Wade     In Ejectmt
          agt John Slye late of St Maryes County was Attached to
        John Slye answer unto John Wade in a plea wherefore with force
                 & armes one tract of land called Williams Ridge lying
        in Baltemore County containing two hundred acres with the appur
        tennces which James Mills Exr of the last Will & testamt of Samuell
        Boston deceased did Demise to the aforesaid John Wade for a terme