190 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

then the whole Damage by servitude or otherwise as the Court
before Whome such matter is brought as aforesaid shall thinke fitt
&c, as by the said Act Relation being thereunto had may more att
large appeare, The said William Wright the said Act not regarding
nor feareing the penalty in the same Contained, in or about the
moneth of in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six
hundred seaventy and hee the said William Wright being then
a ffree man of this Province of Maryland To the great Dishono^r of
god and to the apparent damage of the said Robert Doyne Did
begett then upon the body of one The then Woman sarv-
ant of the said Robert Doyne a Bastard Child in Contempt of the
said Act and to the greate Damage of the said Robert Doyne by
Reason Whereof
And the said William Wright by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
cometh and Defendeth the force and Injury when &c and prayeth
liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and Itt is
granted unto him the same day to given to the plt also
Now here att this day to witt the Thirteenth day of May in the
ffifth yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq?
Domini 1680 came the said parties by theire Attorneys aforesaid,
and the said William Wright by his said Attorney saith, That the
said William for or by Reason of any thing above by the said
Robert in manner and forme aforesaid Alleadged against him him
hee hath noe need nor by the Lawe of the land is bound to an-
swere, and to the same Demurreth in Lawe, according to the forme
of the statute in that case pvided hee sheweth forth, That Whereas
the said Robert setteth forth in his sd Declaracon (that whereas the
said William in or About the moneth of in the yeare of our Lord god
one hundred sixty seaven hee the said William Wright being then
a freeman of this Province of Maryland To the greate dishono^r of
god, and to the apparent Damage of the said Robert Doyne did
begitt then upon the body of one the then Woman sarvant of the
said Robert Doyne &c.) w^ch are words of noe sence or signification
in Lawe nor pp for the said William to Answere unto, and this hee
is ready to Averre, And therefore Demands Judgment of the said
Declaration, and if the said William to the same ough^t to Answere,
Whereupon the said plt retuseth to make any farther, psecution
against the said Defend^t in the plea aforesaid, Therefore Itt is Con-
sidered That the said Robert Doyne take nothing by his writt but

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bee In mercy for his false Claime thereupon & the said William
Wright may goe thereof without day, And that the said William
Wright Recover against the said Robert Doyne the same of Eight
hundred thirty & Six pounds of Tobacco for his Costs and charges
by him about his Defence in this behalfe laid out and expended and
the said William may have thereof Execution