Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    365

        Henry Stocket & Charles James late high Sheriffe of Cecil County Liber N N
        James Stavely was Attached to Answer unto Henry Stocket &
        Adrs Salmon & James Stavely Admrs of the Goods & Chattels of
      Styles        Thomas Salmon & Nathaniel Styles deceased in
            agt     a plea of trespas on the case
      Charles James And whereupon the said Henry Stocket & James
                    Stavely by George Parker their Attorney com
        plaine, that whereas one Roger Ladamore late of the said County,
        that is to say the one & twentieth day of ffebruary in the yeare of
        our Lord God one thousand six hundred seventy & five By an ac- p. 596
        compt stood indebted unto the said Nathaniel Styles Admr of the
        Goods & Chattels of the said Thomas Salmon in the just sume of
        sixteen hundred & thirteen pds of tobacco And for the recovery of
        which said sume, the said Nathaniel Styles the one & twentieth day
        of March in the first yeare of the Dominion of the right Honble
        Charles absolute Lord & Propry of the said Province of Maryland
        &c in the yeare of our Lord God 1675/6 then & continually after
        wards had prosecuted out of his Lopps County Court of Cecil
        County aforesaid one writt of Execucon agt the said Roger Lada
        more directed to then Sheriffe of Cecil County, by which said Writt
        the now Lord Propry had comanded the said Sheriffe that he should
        Attach the said Roger Ladamore & him should safely keep so that he
        should have his body here that is to say att the County Court afore
        said on tuesday the day of One thousand six hun
        dred seventy & six before his Lopps Justices to render unto the said
        Nathaniel Stiles the said sume of Sixteen hundred & thirteen pds
        of tobacco with costs of suite And that he should have there that
        writt Which said writt the said Nathaniel Styles afterwards & be
        fore the returne of the same writt to the said Charles then being
        Sheriffe of the said County of Cecil delivered in forme of Law to be
        executed By reason of which said writt afterwards then being
        Sheriffe of the said County of Cecil aforesaid the said Roger
        Laramore for the cause aforesaid did take & arrest, & him the said
        Roger under the custody of the said late Sheriffe then had & kept And
        the said Roger Ladamore under the custody of the said Sheriffe for
        the cause aforesaid in forme aforesaid in forme aforesaid [sic] being,
        the said Charles James being Sheriffe of the said County of Cecil
        aforesaid the said Roger Ladamore out of his custody without the
        lycence & contrary to the will of the said Nathaniel Styles, the said
        Nathaniel Styles of the said debt of sixteen hundred & thirteen pds
        of tobacco with costs of suite amounting to one hundred ninety &
        foure pds of tobacco in all Eighteen hundred & seven pds of tobacco
        not being satisfied did suffer freely to goe att large whether he would
        to the manifest danger of looseing of the debt & costs aforesaid