336 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

Sheriffe of Cecill County aforesd Comanding him to take the bodys
of them the said George and Petronell and them in safe Custody
Keepe soe as to have their said bodyes before his Lopps Justices of
the provinciall Court at s^t Maryes the fourth day of December then
Next following to answere unto the said Edward Pynn In a plea of
Trespasse upon the Case, and that he should have there the said writt
w^ch said writt the said Edward afterwards and before the Returne
thereof that is to say the sixteenth day of October 1677 att swann
pointe in Cecill County aforesaid unto the said Jonathan then being
Sheriffe of the said County delivered in forme of Law to bee Exe-
cuted, by reason of w^ch said writt the said Jonathan afterwards and
before the Returne thereof that is to say the five and Twentyeth day
of October aforesaid then and Still being Sheriffe of the County
aforesaid The said George Oldfeild and Petronell his wife for the
Cawse aforesaid did take and arrest and them the said George and
Petronell und^r his Custody then & there had and Kept, and the said
George and Petronell being und^r the Custody of the said Jonathan

then anH .till Sheriffe of the said County of Cecill aforesaid for

the Cawse aforesaid in forme aforesaid, The said Jonathan after-
wards to witt the said Twenty ffifth day of October afores^d 1677
Then and still being Sheriffe of the County aforesaid, The said
George and Petronell out of his Custody w^thout the Lycence and
Contrary to the Will of the said Edward the said Edward of his
said Recompence or sume of Six Thousand pounds of Tobacco not
being in any manner satisfyed Did suffer freely to goe at Large
whether hee would And the said George and Petronell before the
said Justices of his Said Lopps prov^ll Court att S^t Maryes afore-
said the said fourth day of Decemb^r according to the effect of the
said writt hee had not whereby the said Edward hath not onely lost
the benifit of his said suite, but also by the Lurking and Absconding
of the said George and Petronell in places to the said Edward un-
knowne The said debt or Recompence is to the said Edward Totally
Lost Whereupon hee sayth hee is the worse & hath Losse to the
Vallue of Eight Thousand pounds of Tobacco And thereupon hee
brings his suite
And the said Jonathan Sybrey 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 it is
granted unto him the same day is given to the plantiffe alsoe

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Now here at this day to witt the nineteenth day of ffebruary in
the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Hono^ble Charles Lord
Baltemore Annoq? Dominj 1680 Came the said partyes by their
Attorneys aforesaid and the said Jonathan Sybrey by his said At-
torney Sayth That hee is in nothing guilty of the premisses above
by the said Edward imposed upon him in manner & forme as the
said Edward above against him hath Complained, and of this hee