Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.   449

        St Maryes the twelfth day of ffebruary next appeare to this Declara- Liber N N

        con, & make him or themselves Defendts thereunto And by rule of
        Court confesse Lease entry & Ejectmt & insist only upon the title,
        the defendt in the Declaracon will confesse judgemt & possession will
        be deliuered accordingly to the plaintiffe. Yor friend
        To Cornelius Johnson Tenant in   Leven Dennard
        possession of the prmisses wthin menconed
          And the said Cornelius Johnson by Robert Carvile his Attorney
        cometh & desireth to be admitted Defendt to try the title to the
        tract of land & prmisses in the Declaracon menconed And prayeth
        liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provincial Court, & itt is
        granted unto him, the same day is given to the plaintiffe also
          Now here att this day to witt the ffifteenth day of June in the
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq3
        Doni 1678. came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And
        the said Cornelius Johnson by his said Attorney saith that he is no
        wayes guilty of the trespas & Ejectmt aforesaid as the said John
        Covington hath above declared against him & of this he putts him- p. 667
        selfe upon the Countrey whereupon the said plaintiffe by his said
        Attorney saith, that he will make no farther prosecucon against the
        said Cornelius in the plea aforesaid Therefore itt is considered by
        the Court here that the said Cornelius Johnson recover against Isaac
        Jacob Lessor to the plaintiffe the sume of Eight hundred Sixty
        foure pounds of tobacco for his costs & charges by him about his
        defence in this behalfe laid out and expended And the said plt in
        mercy for his false claime


        Daniel Cuningham James Moore late of Calvert County planter
          & ux was Attached to Answer unto Ninian Bell of a
            agt       plea wherefore with force & armes One Mes
        Richd Edwards suage & two hundred acres of land scituate
          & uxlying & being on the Northern branch of Pe
          tuxent river within the County of Calvert being
        the North part of a tract of land late in the possession of John
        Potts of Calvert County aforesaid deceased called & known by the
        name of Mount pleasant which Daniel Cuningham & Bridget his
        wife daughter of the said John Potts demised to the said Ninian
        Bell for a terme which is not yet past did enter & him from the pos
        session thereof did Eject, & other harms to him did to the great dam
        age of the said Ninian & agt the peace of the right Honble Charles
        absolute Lord & Propry of the said Province &ca
          And whereupon the said Ninian Bell by Christopher Rousby his
        Attorney saith, that whereas the said Daniel Cuningham & Bridgett
        his wife daughter of the said John Potts deceased the five & twentieth
        day of March in the second yeare of the Dominion of the right
        Honble Charles &c in the said County of Calvert did demise the