172 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

upon the Verdict of the Juro^rs aforesaid bee stopped and Arrested &
That the said John Quigley may goe thereof without day

Jn^u Addison and
Marke Cordea

ag^t
Christopher Rousby
Esqr

Memorandum that this Court,
to witt) the tenth day of ffeb^ry
•Maryland ss: in the ffifth yeare of the Do-
minion of Charles &c Annoq
Dominj 1679, Came Jn^o Addi-
son & Marke Cordea by Robert

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Ridgely theire Attorney, and Exhibited to the Court here theire
Certaine bill ag^t Christopher Rousby Esqr one of the Attorneys of
this Court in a plea of Trespas upon the Case
And Whereupon the said John and Marke by Robert Ridgely
theire Attorney Complaine That Whereas att a Speciall Court of
Oyer and Terminer held att the Citty of st Maryes y^e eighteenth day
of March in y^e Third yeare of his Lopps Dominion over this Prov-
ince Annoq Dominj 1677 before Robert Carvile Walter Hall and
Garret Vansweringen gentf. Justices thereunto Assigned, By vertue
of a Comission issued out of his Lo^pps high Court of Chancery
bearing date the fourteenth day of March aforesaid to them and
John Darnall directed, for the hearing and determineing of all
breaches of any Act or Acts of Parliament Relateing to Navigation
or Trade, by Whomesoever or whensoever done perpetrated or Co-
mitted w^thin the said Province The said Christopher Rousby Esqr
his Majesties Collecto^r of all the Rates Duties and Imposicons due
and payable to his said Majestie in Maryland, Who Aswell for our
Soveraigne Lord Charles the second of England Scotland ffrance
and Ireland King Defend^t" of the faith &c, and The hono^ble Thomas
Notley Esq^r Chiefe Governour of the said Province of Maryland as
for himselfe in that behalfe followed, Came here into Court the said
eighteenth day of March aforesaid in his prop pson and aswell for
the said Lord the King and for the said Governo^r as for himselfe
Exhibited to the said Justices by the said Comission thereunto
Assigned and Authorized, att the speciall Instance request and Sup-
plication of Richard Windall Maryner late Comand^r of the shipp
Liverpoole Marchant, a Certaine Informacon agt him the said Rich-
ard Windall thereby giveing the said Court to understand and bee
informed That Whereas in the statute made in the Parliament of
our said soveraigne Lord the King of England &c in the ffifteenth
yeare of his Raigne att Westminster in the County of Midd^ix in the
same Kingdome of England Amongst other things it was Enacted
By Authority of the same Parliament, That from and after the
Twenty first day of March 1664 noe Comodity of the growth pro-
duction or mani facture of Europe should be imported into any Land
Island Plantacon or Collony Teritory or place to his said Maj^tie
belonging or w^ch should thereafter belong unto or bee in the poses-