52         Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

            Liber N N John   Rogers Comand was given to the Sheriff of Cecil County
                        agt that he take Wm Dunkerton late of his County
                  Wm Dunkerton merchant otherwise Wm Dunkerton of Cecil County
                               in the Province of Maryland if he should be found
                    in his Bailiwick & him safe Keepe so that he have his body here
                    the second day of October 1677 to answer unto John Rogers in a
                    plea that he render unto him the full summe of five thousand nine
                    hundred Seventy Six pounds of good sound merchantable tobacco
                    & caske which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth. Att which
                    said Second day of October in the yeare aforesaid the Same Sheriff
                    maketh returne of the writ aforesaid That the Said Wm Dunkerton
                    is not found in his Bailiwick Whereupon the Said John Rogers
                    by George Parker his Attorny prayed an attachment against the
                    goods & chattells of the said Wm Dunkerton & it is granted unto him
                    by the Court here.

                    Garret Vansweringen the Sheriff of st Maries County haveing re
                        agt turned a Cepi in this cause & no appearance
                    Samuel Abbott.for the deft Order that the deft next Court
                    give speciall bayle to answer the suite & abide
                    judgmt or the bayle bond to be assigned to the plaintiff.

                          p. 343 ffrancis Dorrington
                                     agt
                    John Sunderland admr of the defendt by Robert Carvile his At-
                     James Humes      torny appeares & imparle untill Decem
                    the Same          ber Court next.
                      agt
                                   the Same

                   John Griggs & Mary his wife Comand was given to the Sheriff of
                     executrix of Richard Keene st Maries County that he attach any
                        agt             of the goods or chattells of Thomas
                    Thomas CullenCullen if they should be found in
                     his Bailiwick to the value of thirteen
                    thousand three hundred & three pounds of tobacco and when he
                    had the Same So attached or any part thereof the same in his custody
                    to Keepe untill the said Thomas Cullen should by himselfe or his
                    Attorny here the Second day of October 1677 to answer unto John
                    Griggs & Mary his wife executrix of the last will & testament of
                    Richard Keene deceased of a plea of trespas upon the case, Att which
                    said Second day of October the same Sheriff maketh returne of the
                    writ aforesaid endorsed By virtue of this writ I have attached in the
                    hands of Robert Carvile the Executr of the last will and testament
                    of Elizabeth Moy the Executrix of the last will & Testament of
                    Richard Moy deceased the Summe of One thousand five hundred &
                    fifteene pounds of tobacco and also in the hands of Garret Van-