192 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679.

Liber N N

same bill obligatory more plainly appeareth Which said two hun-
dred pounds the said John Sanders did not pay unto him the said
John Machen on the said tenth day of April which att or upon the
same day he ought to haue paid him according to the forme and
effect of the same bill obligatory although he hath bin often there-
unto required, whereby an action did accrue unto the said John
Machen to require & have of the said John Sanders the aforesaid
foure hundred pounds of sterling And for the more speedy recovery
of the same ffoure hundred pounds the said John Machen by George
Parker his Attorney the sixth day of December in the third yeare
of his Lordpps Dominion Annoq Doni One thousand six hundred
Seventy seven then & continually afterwards had prosecuted out of
his Lordpps Provintiall Court of this Province a certaine writt of
Capias of his said Lordpp directed to the then Sheriffe of Charles
County, by which itt was comanded to him the said then Sheriffe
that he should take the aforesaid John Sanders if he should be
found in his bailywick & him safe keep so that he might have his
body before his Lordpps Justices of the Provintiall Court to be held
att the City of S^t Maryes the twelfth day of ffebruary then next
to answer unto John Machen of a plea that he render unto him the
Sume of ffoure hundred pounds of currant & lawfull money of Eng-
land, & that he should have there then that writt, to the intent that
the said John Machen in the said Provintiall Court of his Lordpp
here might declare prosecute & recover against the aforesaid John
Sanders the debt of ffoure hundred pounds sterling money afore-
said. Which said writt of Capias the said John Machen by George
Parker his Attorney afterwards & before the returne of the said writt
of Capias that is to say the Eighth day of ffebruary One thousand
six hundred Seventy seven aforesaid in the County of Charles
County unto the said W^m Chandler then being Sheriffe of the said
County of Charles County delivered in forme of Law to be executed
By reason of which said writt of Capias the said W^m Chandler
then being Sheriffe of the aforesaid County of Charles County
afterwards to witt the Eleventh day of ffebruary in the third yeare
of his Lordshipps Dominion &c att Portobacco within the County
aforesaid the said John Sanders for the cause aforesaid did take &
Arrest And the said John Sanders for the cause aforesaid in forme
aforesaid he the said W^m Chandler then being Sheriffe of Charles
County aforesaid after wards to witt the twelfth day of ffebruary
One thousand six hundred Seventy seven before his Lordpps Jus-
tices of his Provintiall Court aforesaid att the City of S^t Maryes
aforesaid according to the tenour of the said writt of Capias then
& there had, which said Justices of the Provintiall Court aforesaid
afterwards to witt the fourteenth day of ffebruary in the third yeare
of his Lordpps Dominion by speciall order of the said Court the
said John Sanders did remand & comitt to the custody of the said