414       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N other ffees then by the said Act is lymitted & allowed to the said
                    Officers therein menconed And in case any should doe contrary
                    directly or indirectly to the said Act, shall loose & forfeit to the party
                    grieved treble damages And also forfeit the sume of six thousand
                    pounds of tobacco or forty pounds stert for every tyme he or they
                    shall so doe the contrary, the one moiety to the Lord Propry his
                    heyres & Sucessors the other to the party or parties grieved that
                    shall sue for the same Provided that if any ffees for any matter or
                    thing to be done belonging to their severall Office or Offices, & by the
                    right Honble the Lord Propry or his Lievtenant & Governor & Coun
                    cell so allowed & adjudged & not in that Act menconed lymitted &
                    allowed, then itt shall be law full to have & receive such ffees as the
                    Lord Propry & Councell shall judge & allow & no more under the
                    penalty aforesaid, by which said Act more att large itt doth appeare
                    Notwithstanding which Gerard Slye high Sheriffe of St Maryes
                    County not being ignorant of the prmisses & the said Act of Assembly
                    little weighing nor any way fearing the penalty in the same con
                    tained the one & thirtieth day of October in the yeare of our Lord
                    one thousand six hundred seventy seven & after the publicacon of
                    the. said Act then being high Sheriffe of the County aforesaid in the
                    County aforesaid extorted by colour of his Office of high Sheriffe by
                    himselfe & one John Slye his Servant had & received of one Wm
                    Watts of the County aforesaid the sume of one hundred & tenn
                    pounds of tobacco for executing a Citacon directed to him out of the
                    Office of the Honble Philip Calvert Esqr chiefe Judge of probate of
                    Wills & granting Admcons for this Province the said ffee not being
                    contained in the said Act nor allowed and adjudged by the Propry
                    & his Councell agt the forme of the said Act whereupon the said
                    Kenelm Attorney Genll for the said Lord Propry prayeth advise
                    hereof the Court in the prmisses And that the said Gerard may f or
                    feit the penalty in the said Act contained for his said Offence agt
                    the forme of the said Act so as aforesaid done & comitted & that
                    the said Gerard may come here into Court to answer of & upon
                    the prmisses. Whereupon itt was comanded the Coroner of St Maryes
                    County that he Attach the said Gerard Slye if &c to answer the said
                    Kenelm Cheseldyn who &c of & upon the prmisses.
                     And the said Gerard Slye by Christopher Rousby his Attorney
                p. 638 Cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty
                    to imparle hereunto untill next Provincial Court & itt is granted
                    unto him the same day is given to the said Kenelm 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 Annoq
                    Doni 1678. came the said Kenelm Attorney Genll &c and the said
                    Gerard by his said Attorney likewise came And the said Gerard
                    saith that he is not guilty of the prmisses above by the said Kenelm
                    imposed upon him & of this he putts himself e upon the Countrey And