Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    421

         dangerous sicknes. That the said Dorsey the twentieth of April Liber N N
         last in her extremity of sicknes sent to the Peticonr to fetch the said
         Alice away from his house which he refused to doe. That the said
         Dorsey upon the one & twentieth day of April procured a Warrant
         from Mr Richard Hill one of the Justices of Ann Arundell County,
         upon which the Constable seized & imprisoned the Peticonr & carryed
         him to the said Justices house then & still a publick Ordinary, where
         he was kept Prisoner till the twenty sixth day within night, some
         tymes the said Justice telling him that he had comitted ifelony &
         would have compelled him to have given Dorsey a bond, & demanded
         great security of him. That the Petr was att last for his enlargemt
         & to save further expence forced to enter into Recognizance for tenn
         thousand pounds of tobacco to behave himself justly & honestly to
         Alice his Servant, & to carry away the said Servant from the said
         Dorseys house, & save the said Justice Hill harmles as by the said
         Warrant & Recognizance doth appeare. the Petr humbly prayed that
         he might be discharged from the said Recognizance, he ever haveing
         behaved himself e civily to all persons, nor ever comitted any mis
         demeanor whereby he ought by Law to be bound to his good be
         haviour, & that he may have redresse for his unjust imprisonmt
         Which being read & heard Itt is this day to witt the thirteenth day of
         June in the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore
         &c Annoq Doni 1678. Ordered by the Court here that the aforesaid
         Recognizance be Cancelled & made void.

         June 14th 1678.
          Upon the Peticon of Capt John Quigley, that in the yeare 1676
         he was allowed in the publick Levy one hundred & sixty thousand
         pounds of tobacco, which was apportioned to be paid in Talbot
         County that Col Vincent Lowe high Sheriffe of the said County
         although often requested refuses to pay the same And therefore
         humbly requested that the said Vincent Lowes bond of Sheriffalty
         to the Lord Propry might be assigned him, & that the Attorney Genll
         might be ordered to put the same in suite. Whereupon itt is ordered
         by the Court here that the said bond of Sheriffalty of the said Vincent
         Lowe to the right Honble the Lord Propry be delivered to the Attorney
         Genll to be put in suite

         June 14th 1678.
          Upon the peticon of Morgan Jones, that yesterday attending this
         Court he was arrested by Capt Slyes Deputy att the suite of Thomas
         Bankes for a pretended debt of one hundred & tenn pounds of ton, &
         for his Enlargemt he was forced to procure Thomas Gilbert to passe
         his bill to the said Bankes for three hundred twenty five pounds of
         tobacco contrary to the Lawes of England & the rules of this Court
         And humbly requested that the said bill might be deliuered upp