448      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  cepted & paid Yet neverthelesse he was taken in Execucon for the
                   same And humbly requested to be discharged thereof Whereupon
                   itt was ordered by the Court here this day to witt the twelfth day of
                   June in the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore
                   &c Annocp Doni 1678 that the Execucon aforesaid be supseded And
                   that the said Tho: Innes goe thereof without day

                   Isaac Jacob Leven Dennard late of Somrsett County in the Prov
                      agt since of Maryland planter was Attached to answer
                 Corns Johnson   unto John Covington of the same County planter
                             wherefore with force & armes one Messuage & three
                   hundred acres of land called Sweetwood lying on the Northermost
                   side of Monny River, beginning att a marked tree seperateing the
                   said land from the land of Capt Thomas Maning, thence runing upp
                   the maine river of Monny East Southerly to a marked tree standing
                   by the river side for the length of One hundred & fifty perches thence
                   with a line drawn North into the woods the length of three hundred
                   & twenty perches, thence with a line drawn West Northerly the
               p. 666  length of One hundred & fifty Perches till itt intersects with the
                   Easternmost line unto Capt Thomas Maning aforesaid Which Isaac
                   Jacob demised to the said John Covington 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 John
                   & against his Lordpps peace &c
                     And whereupon the said John by Christopher Rousby his At
                   torney saith That whereas the said Isaac Jacob the first day of
                   January in the yeare of our Lord 1677 in Somrsett County afore
                   said did demise to him the said John the said Messuage & three hun
                   dred acres of land with the appurtennces aforesaid To haue & to
                   hold the same unto him the said John & his assignes from the said
                   first day of January aforesaid untill the full end & terme of three
                   yeares from thence next ensueing fully to be compleat & ended By
                   vertue of which said Demise the said John into the said Messuage
                   land & prmisses did enter & was in the possession thereof And being
                   so in the possession thereof afterwards to witt the second day of
                   January aforesaid the said Leven Dennard into the said Messuage
                   land & prmisses aforesaid with the appurtennces which the said Isaac
                   Jacob to him the said John Covington in manner & forme afore
                   said had Demised for the terme aforesaid which is not yet past
                   entred, & him from the possession thereof did Eject & other harmes
                   to him did to the great damage of the said John & agt his Lordpps
                   peace &c Whereupon he saith he is the worse & hath losse to the
                   Value of twelve thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he brings
                   his suite
                     Unlesse the tenant in possession or they under whom he claymes
                   doe att the next Provinciall Court to be held att the Citty of