366       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N  Whereupon they the said Henry & James say that they are the worse
                    & have damage to the Value of foure thousand pds of tobacco &
                    thereupon they bring their suite
                     And the said Charles James by Christopher Rousby his Attorney
                    cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty
                    to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted unto
                    him, the same day is given to the plaintiffes also
                     Now here att this day to witt the Seventeenth day of June in the
                    third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
                    Dni 1678 came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And
                    the said Charles James by his said Attorney saith, that they the said
                    Henry & James their accon aforesaid agt him the said Charles ought
                    not to have, because he saith, that he the said Charles is not guilty
                    of the trespas aforesaid in manner & forme as the said plaintiffes in
                    their Declaracon have imposed upon him, & of this he putteth him
                    self upon the Countrey. And the said Henry Stocket & James Stavely
                    by George Parker their Attorney say, by any thing before alleadged
                p. 397  ought not to be debarred from Haveing their action aforesaid, be
                    cause they say that the said Charles James is guilty of the trespas
                    aforesaid in manner & forme as they the said Henry & James in their
                    said Declaracon have declared, & this they pray may be inquired into
                    by the Countrey, & the Defendt also. Therefore comand is given
                    to the Sheriffe of St Maryes County that he cause to come here
                    twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c to recognize &c because aswell
                    &c Att which Seventeenth day of June came the said parties by their
                    Attorneys aforesaid And the Jurors impannelled being called like
                    wise came to witt Tho: Stagg, Henry Phippes, Edmond Dennis
                    Richard Keene, Robert Ellys, Edward Turner, Tho: Smith, Hen:
                    Parker Edward Cooke, John Dickson Wm Guither & John Baker who
                    being Elected tryed & sworne to say the truth in the prmisses upon
                    their Oaths doe say Wee finde for the Defendt Therefore itt is con
                    sidered by the Court here that the said James recover agt the said
                    Henry Stocket & James Stavely the sume of twelve hundred forty
                    foure pds of tobacco for his costs & charges by him about his defence
                    in this behalfe laid out & expended And the said plaintiffes in mercy
                    for their false claime

                    Henry Stocket & Charles James late of Cecil County gentl was At
                    James Stavely tached to answer unto Henry Stocket & James
              Admrs Styles Stavely Admrs of the Goods & Chattells of Na
                       agt     thaniel Styles in a plea of trespas on the case
                  Charles James And whereupon the said Henry & James by
                                George Parker their Attorney complaine, that
                    whereas the said Nathaniel Styles the fifth day of July in the yeare
                    of our Lord God One thousand six hundred seventy & five att the spe
                    ciall instance & request of the said Charles James had sold & delivered