Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678. 51

his Attorney & prayeth liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Pro-
vinciall Court & itt is granted unto him, the same day is given to the
plaintiffes also
Now here att this day to witt the ffifteenth day of Octob^r in the
third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
Doni 1678 came Samuell Graves & Alice his wife Symon Edwards
& Susanna his wife Executrices of the last Will & testament of the
said Demetrius Cartwright by Charles Boteler their Attorney And the
said Thomas Mountford by his said Attorney likewise came And the
said Thomas being present in Court made itt appeare to the Court
here that he hath satisfied & paid unto the said Demetrius in his life
tyme ffourteen hundred pounds of tobacco in part of satisfaction of
the judgem^t aforesaid And saith nothing to preclude the said plain-
tiffes from haveing their Execucon for the remainder of the judgem^t
aforesaid Therefore itt is considered by the Court here that the said
plaintiffes have their Eecucon against the said Defend^t for the sume
of ffoure thousand six hundred Eighty three pounds of tobacco the
remainder of the judgem^t aforesaid together with three hundred &
Eight pounds of tobacco cost of suite And also ffive hundred Seventy
foure pounds of tobacco costs of suite sithence laid out and expended

Liber N N

Richard Loyd
ag^t
W^m Singleton

W^m Singleton late of S^t Maryes County Marriner
was Attached to Answer unto Richard Loyd in a
plea of trespas upon the case

And whereupon the said Richard Loyd by Kenelm
Cheseldyn his Attorney complaineth, that whereas in the Act of
Assembly by an Assembly held att the Citty of S^t Maryes in the
yeare of the Dominion Of Cecilius in the yeare of our Lord One
thousand six hundred & fifty & amongst other things itt was Enacted,
that every person or persons that shall transport or carry away or
cause to be transported or carryed away any freeman out of this
Province that is or shall be indebted or engaged here shall be lyable
to pay & satisfie all such debts engagem^ts & damages to the person
or persons to whom the same shall be due respectively within this
Province, unlesse the same be satisfied in convenient tyme, or that
in a short tyme he procure such person or persons to returne againe
into this Province whereby he may be lyable to Justice here Notwith-
standing which the said W^m Singleton not being ignorant of the
p'misses & the said Act of Assembly little weighing nor any way
fearing the penalty in the same contained, but malitiously meaning
& intending contrary to the forme of the said Act the said Richard
Loyd to deceive & defraud of a certaine debt of two thousand pounds
of tobacco did the sixth day of April in the yeare of our Lord One
thousand six hundred Seventy six carry away & transport out of this
Province one Clary Holboard relict of Joseph Holboard deceased
who in his life tyme stood indebted unto the said Richard Loyd by

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