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        all the aforesaid bookes & accompts at the Citty of St Maries the 15th Liber N N
        of May next & for so doeing this shall be your warrant Given under
        my hand the 20th day of April 1676. Will Calvert. To Charles P. 357
        James High Sheriff of Cecil County. As by the Same precept or
        warrant here in Court pduced more fully may appeare. By virtue
        of which Said precept or warrant he the said Charles James the said
        4th day of May 1676 in Cecil County aforesaid did take the body of
        him the said Edward Pynn into his Custody together with a certaine
        bagg then hanging by the side of him the Said Edward wherein
        (amongst other papers & writeings) was conteined the Said bookes
        & accompts meant and mentioned in the Said precept or warrant and
        wherewith he the Said Edward had been entrusted upon his Said
        Lopps accompt, the Publique or some of his Said Lopps Officers and
        as it was law full for him the Said Charles to doe. And forasmuch
        as it was pretended by the Said Edward that the said Publique
        bookes and accompts were at the time aforesaid intermixt in the
        Said bagg with other papers and writeings he the said Charles did
        then & there & ever after freely Offer to permitt & Suffer the said
        Edward Pynn to Seperate & Severe the said Publique bookes and
        accompts from the other papers & writeings that were in the same
        bag, and to take & dispose (as he the Said Edward thought fitt) of
        all & every the papers & writeings that were in the said bag, except
        the said publique bookes & accompts mentioned & intended by the
        aforesaid precept or warrant, Whereupon the said Edward did take
        Out of the Said bag, what papers or writeings he thought fitt, but
        imediately without any cause from the said Charles James on a sud
        den shuffled the said papers writeings books & accompts together &
        then & there & ever after (untill the time that the Same was returned
        according to the warrant & precept as aforesaid) obstinately & per
        versely refused to medle with any papers or writeings that were in
        the Said bag, whereupon all the papers writeings bookes & accompts
        which were in the said bag at the time aforesaid when the same
        was taken into the Custody of the said Charles James as aforesaid
        were all & every of them returned together in the same bag to the
        Citty of St Maries the 15th day of May 1676 together also with the
        body of the said Edward Pynn according to the precept or warrant
        aforesaid & then & there pduced and delivered to the Rt Honble the
        Lord Propry who forthwith committed him the said Edward into
        the Custody of Clement Hill then High Sheriff of st Maries County.
        Which said takeing of the said Edward into Custody by the said
        Charles James then Sheriff of Cecil County aforesaid & the Seizing
        of the Said bag of writeings by virtue of the warrant or precept
        aforesaid is the same assault & takeing of the bag of papers writeings
        & accompts mentioned & intended in the aforesaid declaration, with
        out this that the aforesaid Edward Pynn was imployed by Severall
        merchants & Others to collect & gather severall considerable summes