342 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

Richard Perry and Thomas Gaunt for the Cawse aforesaid, w^ch
said Citty of S^e Maryes aforesaid was within the Baliwick of the
said Gerrard Slye as hee was sheriffe of the County of S^t Maryes
aforesaid, The said Gerrard Slye att the Citty of S^t Maryes afore-
said the same Tenth day of June in the year e aforesaid him the said
John Sanders out of the Custody of him the said Roger ffowke
Deputy of the said William Chandler and Keeper of the said John
sanders did force and take and Rescue und^r p^rtence of a Certaine
writt against the said John Sanders to the said Gerard Slye then

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Sheriffe of S^t Maryes County Directed att the Suite of Thomas
Simpson for the sume of ffoure thousand Eight hundred Twenty
three pounds of Tobacco, The said John Machen in fact Sayth, That
the said Gerrard Slye takeing forceing and Rescueing the said John
sanders out of the Custody of the said Roger as aforesaid, became
charged and burthened with the Keeping & detaining the said John
Sanders for the debt of the said John Machen for the said sume of
ffoure hundred pounds Sterl due from the said John Sanders to the
said John Machen as aforesaid, and gor w^ch hee was in Custody
untill hee Should give Special bayle as aforesaid, according to the
order of the Court aforesaid, and the said Gerard Slye high sheriffe
of S^t Maryes County aforesaid, him the said John Sanders into
his safe Custody did take, and had, in S^t Maryes Citty aforesaid,
and him Detained untill the Twelfth day of the Same June, bur-
thened, and charged, as aforesaid, w^ch said Twelfth day of June in
the yeare aforesaid, The said Justices of the said Provinciall Court,
Ordered that the said John Should bee Remanded to the sheriffe of
Charles County aforesaid, who by the said Order was to have the
body of the said John Sanders att the next Provinciall Court, By
vertue of w^ch Order the said Gerrard, the body of the said John
Sanders to the said Sheriffe of Charles County or his Deputy should
have delivered w^th the Order aforesaid, whereby It might appeare
that hee the said John Sanders was still burthened w^th the ffoure
hundred pounds Stert to the said John Machen due as aforesaid, and
the action at the suite of perry and Gaunt aforesaid, And the said
John Machen further sayth That the said Twelfth day of June in
the yeare afores^d att the Citty of S^t Maryes aforesaid, hee the said
Gerard being Still sheriffe of S^t Maryes County aforesaid, and the
said John Sanders being then and there in his the said Gerrard Slyes
Custody as aforesaid Hee the said Gerard did Voluntarily Suffer
him the said John sanders to goe att Large and make his Escape
forth of the said Custody of him the said Gerrard Slye, wout the
Knowledge Lycence or Consent of him the said John Machen, hee
the said John Sanders not haveing paid the said debt of ffoure
hundred pounds Stert, or produced or given Speciall bayle to answere
the aforesaid accon of him the said John Machen according to the
Teno^r forme and effect of the aforesaid speciall Order of Court