264 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

Speedy recovery of his debt and Costs aforesaid, afterwards to witt
the Seaventeenth day of October in the Yeare of our Lord 1678
aforesaid had prosecuted out of the said Court a Certaine Writt of
his Lo^pp the Lord Prop^ry of ffieri facias against the said Thomas
Robinson To the sheriffe of S^t Maryes County aforesaid Directed,
By w^ch Same writt his Lopp did Comand the Same Sheriffe of the
said County of S^t Maryes That of the goods and Chattles of the
said Thomas Robinson in his Baliwick hee should Cause to bee
made aswell The aforesaid Sume of ffoure thousand pounds of
Tobacco debt w^ch the Same John Paler in the aforesaid Court had
Recovered against him on the said fifteenth day of June aforesaid
Whereof hee was Convicted as also the said Sume of Six hundred
and sixteen pounds of Tobacco costs of Suite, and that hee Should

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have the Same before his Lopps Said Justices at the Said Citty of
S^t Maryes the ffifth day of March then next Ensueing to Render to
the aforesaid John Paler for the debt and costs aforesaid in forme
aforesaid w^ch Said writt the Same John Paler afterwards (To witt)
the Six & Twentyeth day of October aforesaid at Bushwood in the
said County of S^t Maryes did deliver to the said Gerrard Slye
being then Sheriffe of the said County of st Maryes in forme of
Righl tu bcc E-x.ccui.eil, and at the Returne of the Same writt To witt
Upon the said ffifth day of March aforesaid before the said Justices
at s^t Maryes aforesaid came the aforesaid John Paler by his Attor-
ney and the said Gerrard Slye then Sheriffe of S^t Maryes County
returned the writt aforesaid in forme aforesaid to him directed and
Delivered (that is to Say) That hee the Same Gerrard Slye then
Sheriffe of S^t Maryes County aforesaid by vertue of the same writt
had Executed ffive hundred Eighty and Eight pounds of Tobacco
being the Cropp of the said Robinson, Six hundred and fifty pounds
of Tobacco in the hands of Joseph Stratford, ffive barrells of Corne
in the hands of Cap^t Justinian Gerrard being likewise the Cropp of
the said Robinson Vallued at ffive hundred pounds of Tobacco, Six
hundred and ffifty pounds of Tobacco in the hands of Thomas
Edwards who since was runn away, as hee was Comanded All
w^ch said Sumes doe in the whole amount unto the Sume of Two
thousand three hundred Eighty and eight pounds of Tobacco. Yet
the said Gerrard Slye the said Sume of Two thousand three hundred
eighty eight pounds of Tobacco by him Taken and Leavyed as afore-
said, to him the said John Paler Towards Satisfaccon of his debt

and costs of Suite aforesaid hath not Rcndrcd though often thcic-

unto Required, but the same Tobacco by him the aforesaid Gerrard
taken and Leavyed as aforesaid Afterwards to witt the Tenth day
of March aforesaid to the prop use and proffit of him the said Ger-
rard Sheriffe as aforesaid hath Converted & disposed by w^ch the said
Jn^o Paler of the debt and Costs aforesaid is wholly Defrauded,
Whereupon hee Sayth hee is damnifyed and hath losse to the vallue