46        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.
              Liben N N Thomas Bowdell .    .
                        a       this action in replevin the deft by Robert Ridgely
                    Charles Boteler his Attorny app eares & imparles untill next Court.

                    ffrancis Hill
                       agt      the plt by Christopher Rousby his Attorny files
                    Mathew Warde two bills agt the deft & the deft One of the At-
                    the same tornyes of this Court appeares in his proper person
                      agt       & imparles till October Court next.
                                   the same

                    Stephen Murty John Sanders late of Charles County merchant
                       agt otherwise called John Saunders of Bristoll in the
                  John Sanders Kingdome of England merchant was Sumoned to
                               answer unto Stephen Murty of a plea that he render
                    unto him the full & just Summe or quantity of six thousand pounds
                    of tobacco & caske which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth.
                    Now here at this day to wit the One & twentith day of June 1677
                    Came the said John Sanders & the Said Stephen by Robert Ridgely
                    his Attorny prayed the Court here that the said John may give him
                    special bayle to the action aforesaid or that he may be committed
                    into Safe custody & it is granted him Whereupon the said John
                    Sanders with John Hambleton & Robert Hewitt his suertyes did
                    acknowledge to owe unto the said Stephen Murty the summe of
                    twelve thousand pounds of tobacco In case the said John Sanders
                    doe not stand to & abide the judgment of this Court in the action
                    aforesaid & pay the condemnation thereupon or render his body to
                    the Prison of the Lord Proprietary.

                    June 22th 1677
                       Then were
                      Thomas Spink               St Inagoes Hundred
                             Sworne Constables of
                      Abraham Rhodes             St Maries Hundred.

                p. 339 John Rawlings of Dorchester County being taken in execution at
                    the suite of Thomas Bell & Philip ifrench & Compa & at suite of John
                    Staynes & being remitted into the Custody of the Sheriff of the said
                    County was ordered to appeare here this June Court which he ac
                    cording did & againe remitted by consent of the Attornyes for the
                    plaintiffs.

                           Court adjourned till the first tuesday in October next.

                    Maryland. ss.
                    Att a Provinciall Court held at St Maries the Second day of Octo
                    ber in the Second yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore