Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678/9. 125

tobacco & money for Sheriffes & Clerkes ffees & other expences &
charges in his Imprisonm^t and for purgeing & exonerating dis-
chargeing & defending his innocency against the malitious false &
wicked prosecution of the said Edward against him as aforesaid
And also his Neighbours & Clients to whom the innocency of the
said Nehemiah in this part was unknown have daily more & more
refused & yet doe refuse & withdraw themselves from the company
and familiarity of the said Nehemiah, by reason whereof the said
Nehemiah hath endured many labours miseryes & troubles as well in
his imprisonm^t as aforesaid, as also by his being much grieved
troubled unquitted & perplexed in his minde in & about the same,
to the damage of the said Nehemiah of One hundred thousand
pound of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite
And the said Edward Husbands by George Parker his Attorney
cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty
to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted
unto him, the same day is give to the plaintiffe also
Now here att this day to witt the thirteenth day of March in the
fourth yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
Doni 1678 cometh as well the said Nehemiah Blakiston as the
said Edward Husbands by their Attorney aforesaid And the said
Edward by his said Attorney saith that the said Nehemiah Blakiston
his action aforesaid against him ought not to have, because he saith
that the twelfth day of June One thousand six hundred Seventy
eight att the City of S^t Maryes att a Provinciall Court then & there
held before his Lordpps Justices thereunto assigned, by Recognizance
bound did giue in Evidence to the great Inquest then & there charged
& sworne to inquire for the body of the said Province of certaine
Articles to them delivered, then & there for the said Lord Prop^ry
in the same Province comitted against the said Edward Husbands
of & upon a certaine Indictm^t ag^t him the said Nehemiah to the
jurors aforesaid then & there exhibitted for that he the said Nehe-
miah Blakiston the twenty sixth day of March in the first yeare of
his Lordpps Dominion & in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand
six hundred Seventy & six at Mattapany in S^t Clements Manno^r in the
County aforesaid the said hatt called a ffrench hatt & one perriwigg
to the value of three pounds eight shillings sterl then & there from the
person of the said Edward with force & armes feloniously did take &
carry away contrary to his Lordpps peace &c Whereupon the jurors
aforesaid the jurors aforesaid the said bill of Indictm^t to them against
the said Nehemiah Blakiston as aforesaid exhibitted, did present the
said bill to be true as itt was lawfull for them to doe. Without that,
that any malice was before had between the said Edward Husbands &

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Nehemiah Blakiston to indict him the said Nehemiah falsely &
malitiously of & upon the said p^rmisses made as the said Nehemiah
above against him doth complaine And this he is ready to prove,

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