120 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678/9.

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said County of Talbot this ensueing yeare And also shall render unto
his Lordpp & other his Lordpps Officers a true & faithfull & perfect
account of all & singuler his Lordpps rents & all other ffees & dues
that he shall be intrusted with by his said Lordpp or any his Lordpps
Officers within this Province to receive & collect And also of all
publick & County Levyes that he shall be entrusted to collect And his
accounts to his Lordpp his heyres and Successors for his rents fines
forfeitures & other dues belonging to his Lordpp As also his account
of all ffees dues or Sumes of money or tobacco for Levyes or ffees
due to any his Lordpps Officers within this Province shall passe &
give accompt off by the twentieth day of March next ensueing the
date thereof And in all other things as Sheriffe of the said County
shall behave himselfe well & honestly towards all persons according
to the best of his power skill & knowledge Then this Obligacon
to be Void & of none effect Or else to stand remaine & be in full
force & Vertue — which being read & heard the said Vincent Lowe
by his Attorney aforesaid prayeth liberty to imparle hereunto untill
next Provinciall Court & itt is granted unto him the same day is
given to the plaintiffe also
Now here att this day to witt the fourteenth day of March in the
fourth yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
Doni 1678 cometh as well the said Kenelm Cheseldyn Attorney
Gen^ll as the said Vincent Lowe by his Attorney aforesaid, and the
said Vincent saith nothing in barr of the action of the aforesaid
Kenelm, by which the said Kenelm Attorney Gen^ll as aforesaid
remaineth against the said Vincent thereof undefended Therefore

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itt is considered that the Said Lord Prop^ry recover against the said
Vincent Lowe the aforesaid Sume of two hundred thousand pounds
of tobacco debt And the defend' in mercy &c

Upon the peticon of Elizabeth Smith, that sicknes hath rendred
her unable to labour for her livelyhood, And that she hath no setled
place to abide in, but what the charity of good people doth releive
her withall, & humbly beggd an order of this Court for an yearly
stipend to be paid her in Calvert County where her abode is Where-
upon itt is ordered by the Court here this day to witt the Seventh
day of March in the fourth yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord
Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1678 that att the next County Court to be
held in Calvert County, There be such care taken by the Comission^rs
of the said Court of the said Elizabeth, that she may have a yearly
pension for her maintenance, to be paid unto her by the said County,
to be raised att the laying of every County Levy.

Allowed unto Robert Blinkhorne of Calvert County for comeing
goeing & attendance to give his Evidence for Roger Baker against
Margarett Gittings in all fourteen dayes att thirty pounds of tobacco
p day foure hundred & twenty pounds of tobacco