Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    381

        Attorney complaineth, that whereas one Cornelius Regann late of Liber N N
        Hunting Creek in Calvert County in the Province of Maryland
        deceased in & by his last Will & testamt in writeing bearing date the
        second day of Octobr in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
        six hundred seventy & three did give to Sarah the Daughter of
        James Humes his Exr one ifeather bed with Curtaines & Valence
        & all things to itt belonging, and of the same his lost Will & testamt
        did make constitute & appoint his Loveing friend James Humes of
        the Clifts to be his Ext, & afterwards dyed After whose death the
        said James did taken upon him the burden of the Execution of the
        said testamt aforesaid, & in due forme of Law proved the same
        testament & divers Goods & Chattells which were of the aforesaid
        Cornelius Regann together with the said feather bed Curtaines &
        Valence & all things thereunto belonging, which said feather bed &
        furniture was appraisd to the Value of sixteen hundred pounds of
        tobacco to the hands and possession of the said James came to be
        Administred And whereas the said ffrancis Dorrington intermarryed
        with the said Sarah the daughter of the said James, by which the
        said feather bed curtaines Valence & other things thereunto belonging
        given aforesaid or the Value thereof ought to be paid & delivered
        unto him the said ffrancis Dorrington Yet notwithstanding the said
        James Humes the aforesaid ifeather bed & furniture nor the Value
        thereof in his life tyme to the aforesaid ffrancis Dorrington nor to
        the said Sarah the said wife of the said ffrancis hath not paid or
        delivered according to the true meaning of the said last Will &
        testamt nor in any manner for the same given content, nor the said
        John Sunderland the AdmT of the Goods & Chattells of the said
        James since the death of the said James although often thereunto
        required the said feather bed & furniture hath not paid or delivered
        or in Any manner for the same given content, but the same to pay p. 610
        & deliver hath denyed & refused & still doth deny & refuse to the
        great damage of the said ffrancis, whereupon he saith he is damnified
        & hath losse to the Value of two thousand & five hundred pds of
        tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite
          And the said John Sunderland by Robert Carvile 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 Seventeenth day of June in the
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Anoq
        Doni 1678. came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid, &
        the said John by his said Attorney saith, that the said ffrancis his
        action aforesaid agt him ought not to have, because he is & allwayes
        was ready & willing to deliver to the said ffrancis the said feather
        bed & furniture, & that he tendered the same to him the said if rancis
        & he refused to Receive the same And this he is ready to verifie, &