Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.   415

        the aforesaid Attorney Genll who &c likewise. Therefore itt is Liber N N
        comanded the Sheriffe of St Maryes County that he cause to come
        here twelve &c by whom &c and who neither &c to recognize &c
        because as well &c Att which said Eighteenth day of June in the
        yeare aforesaid came as well the said Kenelm Cheseldyn Attorney
        Genll &c as the said Gerard Slye by his Attorney aforesaid And the
        jurors impannelled being called likewise came to witt Wm Dorring
        ton, Wm Wells, Edwa Williams, Philip Lynes, Tho: Hinton, Cor
        nelius Johnson, John Cobreath, Abrm Clarke, Wm Kent, James
        Veitch, Wm Hitchcock & John Sunderland who being elected tryed &
        sworne to say the truth in the prmisses upon their Oaths doe say
        that the said Gerard Slye did receive of Wm Watts one hundred & ten
        pounds of tobacco for serveing a Citacon Whereupon the prmisses
        being seen & by the Court here fully understood itt seemeth to the
        Justices here, that the said Gerard Slye is not Guilty of the breach
        of the Act of Assembly in the above informacon menconed There
        fore itt is considered by the Court here that the said Lord Propry &
        the said Kenelm Cheseldyn who &c take nothing by the Informacon
        aforesaid And that the said Gerard Slye goe thereof without day

        Tho: Sprigg Comand was given to the Sheriffe of St Maryes
            agt County, that whereas a certaine order or Decree
      Tho: Trueman was made in his Lopps high Court of Chancery in
                   this Province between Thomas Sprigg plt & Tho:
        Trueman defendt bearing date the ninth day of Octobr last past,
        whereby for the reasons therein contained itt was ordered (amongst
        other things) & Decreed that the said Thomas Trueman should pay
        unto the said Thomas Sprigg all such charges & damages as the said
        Thomas Sprigg had laid out expended & sustained by nonperform
        ance of a certaine Agreement in the said order menconed to be made
        between the aforesaid plt & defendt & in his the Complts removeing
        his ifamily & stock from his own plantacon to the said Truemans
        plantacon, & in seating building cleering & fenceing the same & all
        other necessary charges relateing thereunto according to the writeing
        under the hand of the said Thomas Trueman, deducting thereout
        all such sume or sumes of tobacco as the said Thomas Sprigg had
        or without his wilful default might have received out of the said
        plantacon by the precepcon of the profitts thereof from the tyme of
        his entry thereinto till he left the same And for as much as itt was
        not known what charge or damages the said Thomas Sprigg had laid
        out & expended or sustained by nonperformance of the Agreemt
        aforesaid & in seating cleering & building upon the plantacon afore
        said & other charges relateing thereunto, or what profitts had bin by
        him received as aforesaid And for that the same was properly att
        the comon Lawes by a Jury to be tryed Itt was therefore comanded
        the same Sheriffe that he cause to come here the Eleventh day of