52 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678.

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bill under hand & Seale the sume of two thousand pounds of tobacco
haveing sufficient Assetts in hand to pay the same, but never legally
Administred of the Estate of the said Joseph contrary to the forme
of the said Act & to the damage of the said Richard Loyd three thou-
sand five hundred pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his
suite.
And the said W^m Singleton by Christopher Rousby 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 given to the plaintiffe also
Now here att this day to witt the ffifteenth day of October in the
third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
Doni 1678 came as well the said plaintiffe as the said Defend^t by
their Attorneys aforesaid And the said W^m by his said Attorney
saith, that he the said Richard his action aforesaid against him the
said W^m ought not to have, because he saith that there is no such
Record of an Act of Assembly held att the City of S^t Maryes in the
yeare of the Dominion of Cecilius in the yeare of our Lord God
One thousand six hundred & fifty in manner & forme as the said
plaintiffe in his said Declaracon hath sett forth And this he is ready
to averr And therefore prayes judgem^t of this Court & that the
said accom may abate. Whereupon the said plaintiffe refuseth to
make any further prosecucon against the said Defend^t in the plea
aforesaid Therefore itt is considered by the Court here that the said
W^m Singleton recover against the said Richard Loyd the Sume of
Seven hundred Seventy nine pounds of tobacco for his costs &
charges by him about his defence in this behalfe laid out & expended

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And the said Richard in mercy for his false plaint Ordered by the
Court here, that the sume of ffoure thousand six hundred Sixty
three pounds of tobacco of the proper Goods and Chatties of
W^m Singleton Marryner Attached by the Sheriffe of S^t Maryes
County att the suite of Richard Loyd be restored to the said
W^m Singleton

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Henry Jowles & ux
Ex^x W^m Groome

All controversies & debates between the plain-
tiffe & defendants Att comon Law. And also
between the Defendants & the plaintiffe in
Chancery are by consent & att the request of