368       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N  behalf e to defraud, the said sume though often thereunto requested
                    hath not paid to the said Wm but the same to pay doth altogether deny
                    & refuse Whereupon he saith he is damnified & hath losse to the
                    Value of five thousand pits of ton, & thereupon he bringeth suite
                      And the said Thomas ifolkes by Christopher Rousby his Attorney
                    cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty
                    to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted
                    unto him, the same day is given to the plaintiffe also
                      Now here att this day to witt the Eighteenth day of June in the
                    third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annop
                    Doni 1678. came the said Wm Jones by his Attorney aforesaid &
                    offered himselfe agt the said Thomas ifolkes in the plea aforesaid
                    but the said Thomas came not but made default Therefore itt is
                    considered by the Court here, that the said Wm Jones recover agt
                    the said Thomas ffolkes as well the sume of foure thousand seven
                    hundred & six pits of tob damages occasioned by the prmisses As
                    also flue hundred fifty & two pits of tobacco costs of suite

                    Wm Taylor     Wm Layton late of Somrsett County
                      agt in Ejectmt planter was Attached to answer unto Wm
                    Wm LaytonTaylor of a plea wherefore by force &
                    Armes one Messuage of One thousand
                    acres of land in the County aforesaid & lately in the tenure & occupa
                    con of Tho: Jones gent! & which the said Thomas Jones to him the
                    said Wm Taylor demised for a terme not yet past did enter & him
                    from his farme aforesaid did Eject & other Enormities to him did
                    doe to the great damage of him the said Wm Taylor & contrary to the
                    peace of the Lord Propry &c
                      And whereupon the said Wm Taylor by Robert Ridgely his At
                    torney complaineth, that whereas the said Thomas Jones the first
                p.  day of May in the second yeare of the Dominion of Charles &c An
                    noq Doni One thousand six hundred seventy seven att Somrsett
                    County aforesaid had Demised to the said Wm Taylor the said Mes
                    suage with the appurtennces called Naseworthys choice lying on the
                    South side of Manokin River & begining att a marked Pyne divideing
                    itt from the land of Wm Glanvile, & from thence runing North East
                    along the river the breadth of One hundred & fifty poles to a marked
                    Oak standing opposite agt a point of land called the tradeing point, &
                    from thence runing South East upon the South side of a small
                    Creek called the upper forke the length of Six hundred & fifty poles
                    to a marked Pyne upon the South side of the Southermost branch
                    of the upper fforke, & from thence South South West the breadth of
                    one hundred & fifty poles to a marked Oak with a line drawn North
                    West the length of six hundred & fifty poles to the first bounder
                    containing by estimacon One thousand acres or thereabout To have
                    & to hold unto the said Wm Taylor & his assignes from the ifeast of