Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     75

       impannelled Sumoned & Sworne & heard what was alleadged & Liber N N
       proved by the said partyes upon their Oathes doe say Wee find no
       cause of action. Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the
       said Charles James recover against the said Edward Pynn the summe
       of three thousand Six hundred flinty two pounds of tobacco for his
       costs & charges in this behalfe laid Out & expended & the Said
       Edward in mercy for his false Complaint.

       Stephen Murty admr Comand was given to the Sheriff of Calvert
         John Bailey County That whereas John Balley the four
          agt         tenth day of May 1674 recovered judgment
       John Russell against the said John Russell for the summe of
       two thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco
       a certaine debt for damages whereof he was convict as also seven
       teene hundred flinty five pounds of tobacco costs of suite of which
       said damages & costs remaineth satisfaction to be made Therefore
       it was Comanded the same Sheriff that by good & lawfull men of
       his Bailiwick he be & appeare here the Second day of October 1677
       to show cause if any he have why execution for the said damages
       & costs should not issue against him Att wch said Second day of
       October in the yeare aforesaid the same Sheriff maketh returne of
       the writ aforesaid endorsed By virtue of this writt I have suthoned
       the said John Russell as by the same writ I am Comanded but the
       said John Russell came not Whereupon it is granted by the Court
       here the eighth day of October in the yeare aforesaid That the
       said Stephen Murty administrator of the goods & chattells of the
       said John Balley deceased recover against the said John Russell the
       damages & costs aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred &
       twenty pounds of tobacco costs of suit sithence laid Out & expended.

       Samuel    Millington Whereas Samuel Millington the twelfth day
            agt of ffebruary 1675 obtained judgment against
       Thomas Bankes admr George Beckwith in his life time for two
         George Beckwith thousand pounds of tobacco a certain debt
                      then recovered against him & five hundred
       flinty Eight pounds of tobacco of suite for which said debt & costs
       satisfaction remained to be made Whereupon Comand was given to
       the Sheriff of Calvert County that by good & lawfull men of his
       Bailiwick he make Knowne unto Thomas Bankes administrator of
       the goods & Chattells of the said George that he be & appeare here
       the 17th day of April 1677 to show cause if any he hath why execu
       tion for the debt & costs aforesaid should not issue against the estate
       of the said George Att which said 17th of April the same Sheriff
       maketh returne of the writ aforesaid That the Said Thomas Bankes
       was sumoned as by the same writ he was Comanded Whereupon the
       said Thomas Bankes by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh & de