382       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  demands judgemt if the said ffrancis his action aforesaid agt him
                   ought to have
                     And the said ffrancis saith, that by anything above alleadged he
                   ought not to be barred of his action aforesaid, because he saith that
                   the said John did not tender unto him the feather bed & furniture
                   by the will of the said Regann to Sarah the wife of the said ffrancis
                   bequeathed in such manner & condicon as the same to her by the
                   said Will was bequeathed, nor the Value thereof as the said bed
                   & furniture was appraised in the Inventory of the Estate of the said
                   Regann, & this he prayes 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
                   &s who neither &c to recognizance &c because as well &c
                     Afterwards to witt the seventeenth day of June aforesaid in the
                   yeare aforesaid came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid
                   And the jurors impannelid being called likewise came, to witt Gilbert
                   Turbervile, Wm Wells, Edwa Williams, Philip Lynes Tho: Hinton,
                   Cornelius Johnson, John Cobreath, Abram Clarke, James Veitch,
                   Wm Hitchcock, Tho: Robinson & Jacob Loton who being eleted
                   tryed & sworne to say the truth in the prmisses upon their Oaths
                   doe say that they finde for the plaintiffe the bed & furniture There
                   fore itt is granted by the Court here, that the said ffrancis Dorington
                   recover agt the said John Sunderland Admr as aforesaid as well the
                   bed Curtaines Valiance & furniture aforesaid As also One thousand
                   & fifty pds of tobacco costs of suite


                  ffrancis  Dorrington John Sunderland late of the Clifts in Cal
                        agt vert County planter Admr of the Goods &
                   J no Sunderland Admr Chattells of James Humes was attached to
              James Humes         Answer unto ffrancis Dorrington in a plea
                                  of trespasse on the case
                     And whereupon the said ffrancis Dorrington by George Parker
                   his Attorney complaineth, that whereas upon the fifteenth day of
                   May in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred seventy
                   & six att the then dwelling house of the said James Humes certaine
                   communication was had & moved between the aforesaid ffrancis
                   Dorrington & the aforesaid James Humes of a concerning Mar
               p. 611  riage between him the said ffrancis & one Sarah Humes naturall
                   daughter of him the said James Humes to be had & solemnized, upon
                   which said communicacon he the said James Humes then & there in
                   consideracon that the aforesaid ffrancis Dorrington att the speciall
                   instance & request of him the said James would take to his wife the
                   aforesaid Sarah & would Espouse the same Sarah according to the
                   rights & Customes of this Province of Maryland, did assume upon
                   himself e & to him the said ffrancis did then & there faithfully prom
                   ise, that he the said James would well & faithfully content pay &