450       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  said Messuage & land with the appurtennces To have & to hold
                   to the said Ninian Bell & his assignes from the said five & twentieth
                   day of March untill the full end & terme of three yeares then next
                   ensuing fully to be compleat & ended By vertue of which said Demise
                   the said Ninian Bell into the Messuage & land aforesaid with the
                   appurtennces entred & was in the possession thereof And being so
                   thereof possessed afterwards to witt the said five & twentieth day
                   of March the said James Moore into the Messuage & land aforesaid
                   with the appurtennces which the said Daniel Cuningham and Bridget
                   his wife daughter of the said John Potts deceased in forme afore
                   said 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 Ninian Bell & agst the peace of
                   the said right Honble the Lord Propry &c And whereupon the said
                   Ninian saith he is the worse & hath damage to the Value of forty
                   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 for the Province of
                   Maryland the nineteenth day of June next ensueing appear to This
               p. 668  Declaracon & make him or themselves Defendants 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 delivered accordingly to the plaintiffe
                   To Richard Edwards tenant in possession     y0r friend
            of the prmisses within menconed         James Moore
                    And the said Richard Edwards & Hannah his wife by George
                   Parker their Attorney come & desire to be admitted Defendts to try
                   the title to the land & prmisses in the Declaracon menconed, & pray
                   liberty to imparle hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court & itt
                   is granted unto them, the same day is giuen to the plaintiffes also
                    Afterwards to witt the Eighth day of Octobr in the second yeare
                   of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1667.
                   came the plaintiffe by Christopher Rousby his Attorney & obtained
                   an order of this Court which followes in these words vizt Came
                   Ninian Beale by Christopher Rousby his Attorney & James Moore
                   by George Parker his Attorney, but because itt appeared to the
                   Court here that this action of Ejectmt was comenced by the said
                   Ninian Beale as Lessee to the said Daniel Cuningham & Bridget this
                   wife against James Moore the casuall Ejector And the said Richard
                   Edwards & Hannah his wife being named Defendts instead of the
                   casuall Ejector to try the title to one Messuage & two hundred acres
                   of land scituate lying & being on the Northern branch of Petuxent
                   river being the North part of a tract of land late in the possession of
                   John Potts deceased called Mount pleasant & being now in dispute
                   between the said Daniel Cuningham & Bridget his wife & the said
                   Richard Edwards & Hannah his wife And the Court findeing itt