72         Provincial Court Procee&ngs, 1677.

            Liber N N   of the said Charles in Caecil County aforesaid he being then High
                    Sheriff of the same County & haveing then in his custody Severall
                    bonds bills & accompts of & belonging to the said merchants & Others
                    & by them in his custody intrusted to impower him the said Edward
                    the better to collect & gett in their debts aforesaid & the same being
                    well Knowne to the Said Charles & he the said Charles minding &
                    intending to deprive the said Edward of his employment & to bring
                    him into discredit & disgrace with his Said Imployers & Others He
                    the said Charles upon the said 4th day of May aforesaid at the house
                    of him the said Charles in Cecil County aforesaid upon him the
                    said Edward then & there being by force and armes made an assault
                    & One bagg then hanging by his side in which were all his papers
                    and concernes touching the management of the imployment of Re
                    ceiver as aforesaid together also with all the said papers writeings &
                    accompts did take away from him the Said Edward & the same from
                    him did deteine & Keepe so as the said Edward for want of the
                    said papers & writeings lost the Opportunity of receiveing & collect
                    ing his tobaccoes aforesaid & by meanes whereof his Salery of ten
                    PCent & also the employment of collecting & receiveing tobacco to
                    the great damage of the said Edward & whereupon he Saith he is
                    dampnified & hath losse to the value of fifty thousand pounds of
                    tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                      And whereupon the Said Charles James by Christopher Rousby
                    his Attorny cometh and defendeth the force & injury when &c &
                    Saith that as to the makeing of an assault with force & armes upon
                    him the said Edward & also the takeing away One bagg then hanging
                    by the Side of him the said Edward with all the papers writeings &
                    accompts therein, he the Said Charles is in no wise giulty in man
                    ner & forme as the aforesaid Edward hath above against him com
                    plained & of this he putts himself e upon the Country, and as to the
                    residue of the trespas aforesaid above supposed to be done, he the
                    said Charles saith That the said Edward ought not thereupon to
                    have his action aforesaid because he Saith that true it is that at the
                    time aforesaid wherein the trespas aforesaid is supposed to be done
                    to wit the 4th day of May 1676 and for a certaine time before and
                    after he the said Charles was High Sheriff of Cecil County and
                    that dureing that time to wit the 20th day of April 1676 he the Said
                    Charles James received a certaine precept or warrant under the hand
                    of the Honble William Calvert Escp principal Secretary of Maryland
                    & One of his Lopps Honbl Councell the tenor whereof followeth
                    in these words vizt These are in the name of the Right Honble the
                    Lord Proprietary to will and require you that upon Sight hereof you
                    take into your Custody the body of Edward Pynn late Sub-Sheriff of
                    Cecil County with all Such bookes and accompts as he hath been
                    entrusted with to receive by his Lopp Upon his Lopps accompt the
                    publique or any of his Lopps Officers so that you have his body with