Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677. 57

       part thereof the same in his custody to Keepe untill the Said John Liber N N
       Ingram Should by himselfe or his Attorny appeare before the jus
       tices of this Court the thirtenth day of ffebry 1676 to answer unto
       Mary Roe executrix of the last will & testament of Edward Roe
       deceased in a plea that he render unto her the Summe of five hundred
       pds Sterling which from her he unjustly deteineth. Which Said
       thirtenth day of ffebruary On which the said Court should have
       been holden was by his Lopps writ of adjournment adjourned untill
       the 17th day of April then next following Att which said sevententh
       day of April the same Sheriff maketh returne of the same writ
       endorsed Attached the estate of Ingrams in bills & accompts p
       Vincent Lowe Sheriff. At which said 17th day of April in the yeare
       aforesaid the Court would advise in & upon the premisses but did
       not untill the Sixth day of October then next following Att which
       said Sixth day of October Anno 1677 It is Ordered by the Court
       that the Severall persons in whose hands the debts due to Ingram
       doe remaine be duly served with scire facias and if they Shew not
       cause to the contrary that they forthwith satisffie & pay to the plain
       tiff or her Attorny or other Order the Severall summes of tobacco
       resting due to the Said Ingram in their hands or in default thereof
       that execution issue Out against them their bodyes goods or chattells
       for the Same, according to the Order of Court made the 25th day
       of April 1677 And it is further Ordered that Colonel Henry Coursey
       take good & Sufficient Suertyes of the Said Mary Roe to indempnifie
       this Court against all actions Suites or other matters that may hap
       pen touching or concerning the said attachment and that the said
       Mary Roe make restitution of the said bills & accompts so attached
       as aforesaid or the value thereof in case the said John Ingram or his
       Attorny doe within a yeare & a day to be accompted from the 28th
       day of November 1676 the time of the said attachment awarded)
       come & make his & their just & due defence and proceed On in the
       Said action in comon forme & make it appeare the Said Mary is
       Satisfied her Just demand or any part thereof.


       Wm Guither       the Sheriff of st Maries County haveing
         agt returned a Cepi in this cause this October
       Jane Gray admrx Alexandr Court & the deft not appeareing & John
         Windsor Jones who was Attorny for the plaintiff
                        being dead this cause continued untill
                        next Court.

       John Darwell admr Wm
      Ratcliff          the Sheriff of Charles County the same &
      agt               continued untill next Court.
       John Stone