422       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  Whereupon itt is ordered by the Court here, that the said bill in the
                   peticon menconed be delivered up in open Court to be Cancelled.
                   which was accordingly done

                                 Wm Crosse
                                    agt
                           This action is agreed.
                   Samuel Hatton Admr
                   George Soley

             p.644 Edward Ball Bernard Johnson late of Calvert County Cooper
                      agt was attached to answer unto Edward Ball of the
                 Bernard Johnson same County planter wherefore by force & armes
                               one Mannor Messuage & two thousand acres of
                   land lying on the South side of Petuxent River in Calvert County
                   aforesaid called Brooke Court Mannor otherwise the Aquasco with
                   the appurtennces wch Elizabeth Letchworth Widdow Mother &
                   Guardian of Joseph Letchworth sonn & heyre of Thomas Letchworth
                   deceased in right of the said Joseph demised to the said Edward
                   for a terme which is not yet past did enter & him from the possession
                   thereof did eject & other harmes to him did to the great damage of
                   the said Edward & agt his Lopps peace.
                    And whereupon the said Edward Ball by Robert Carvile his
                   Attorney saith, that whereas the said Elizabeth Letchworth mother
                   & Guardian of the said Joseph Letchworth Sonn & heyre of the said
                   Tho: Letchworth in right of the said Joseph the sixth day of Octobr
                   in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy seven
                   in Calvert County aforesaid did demise to him the said Edward the
                   said Mannor Messuage & land aforesaid with the appurtennces To
                   have & to hold the same unto him the said Edward & his assignes
                   from the said sixth day of Octobr aforesaid unto the full end &
                   terme of three yeares from thence next ensueing & fully to be corn-
                   pleat & ended By vertue of which said Demise the said Edward into
                   the said Mannot Messuage & prmisses aforesaid entred & was in the
                   possession thereof & being so in possession thereof afterwards to
                   witt the first day of Novembr in the yeare of our Lord one thousand
                   six hundred seventy seven the said Bernard Johnson into the said
                   Mannor Messuage & prmisses aforesaid with the appurtennces afore
                   said which the said Elizabeth to him the said Edward in manner
                   & forme aforesaid had Demised for the terme aforesaid which is not
                   yet past entred, & him from his possession thereof did eject & other
                   harmes to him did to the great damage of the said Edward & agt
                   his Lopps peace, & thereupon he saith he is the worse & hath losse
                   to the Value of twenty thousand pds of tobacco & thereupon he
                   bringeth his suite.
                    And the said Bernard Johnson by Christopher Rousby his At
                   torney cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth