446       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

           Liber N N   hundred thirty three pounds of tobacco, & the same so Attached in
                  his custody to keep untill the said Cadwallader Jones should by him
                  selfe or his Attorney appeare here the Eleventh day of June in the
                  third yeare of his Lordpps Dominion & Annocp Doni 1678. to answer
                  unto Robert Ridgely gentt in a plea of trespas upon the case Att
                  which said Eleventh day of June the same Sheriffe made return of
                  the writt aforesaid that by vertue thereof he hath Attached in the
                  hands of Walter Hall two thousand five hundred thirty three pounds
                  of tobacco.
                    Afterwards to witt the twelfth day of June in the yeare aforsd
                  the said Attachment was dissolved by the Court, & Ordered that the
                  tobacco so Attached as aforesaid be restored to the said Walter Hall
                   Robert Carvile            .
                    a The Defend by Nehemiah Blakiston his Attorney
                    g lappeares & imparle untill next Court.
                  John Tennison

               p. 664 John Maning The Defendt by Wm Crosse his Attorney appeares &

                    g imparles untill next Court
                  John Price

                  June 14th 1678
                    Then was Michael Miller of Kent County genti sworne Sheriffe
                  of the said County

                                 Eodem die
                    Then was Wm Price Servant to the Honble Thomas Notley Esqr
                  judged to be Seventeen yeares of age when he arrived in this
                  Province. & Ordered that the said Wm Price Served his said Master
                  att the expiracon of his tyme of servitude by custome of this Coun
                  trey two hundred & thirty dayes for unlawfully absenting himself e &
                  runing away from his said Masters service twenty three dayes by
                  his owne confession att ten dayes p one according to Act of Assembly

                  June 13th 1678.
                    Where any person served with a subpa doth injury or wrong
                  either by word or deed to the party who acted in the service in itt,
                  or doth sett att nought or contemne writt itt selfe or the authority
                  of the Court from whence itt issues, upon Oath made thereof &
                  mocon thereupon Itt is ordered that such person be comitted to
                  prison

                  June 12th 1678.
                    John Saunders of Charles County being brought down to this
                  Court by the Sheriffe of the same County Ordered that the said
                  John Saunders be remanded to the Sheriffe of the said County, who
                  is to have his body here att the next Provinciall Court.