Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 387

Vanswearingen ought not to have, because hee sayth, that before
the sueing out of the writt of scire facias aforesaid, to witt) the
fourteenth day of May 1680, the said Garret by his Certaine write-
ing of Release w^crj the said Thomas (sealed with the seale of him
the sd Garret) herein Court pduceth, the date whereof is the same
day and year, the said Garrat for him his heires Executo^rs and
Adm^rs did thereby remise release and for ever quit Claime unto
James Pattison his heires Executo^rs and Adm^rs from all manner of
debts bills bonds ord^rs of Court Executions whatsoever, so well for
himself as for his p^rdecesso^r Walter Hall deceased from the begin-
ing of the world to that p^rsent day, and by the same Release spe-
cially made knowne that also therein is Comprehended the accon of
Security from Walter Hall in speciall bayle for Capt John Quigley
for forty three thousand & odd pounds of Tobacco being bound for
the moyety thereof, and the same Thomas sayth that the said Walter
Hall in the same Release named was the Walter Hall in the said
scire facias named to whome the said Margaret wife of the said

Liber W. C.

James Pattison was Executrix, and the said Judgment in the said
Release menconed for forty three thousand and odd Pounds of
Tobacco from the said Capt John Quigley was the Judgment in the
scire facias specifyed, for w^ch the said Thomas Taylor and Walter
Hall were speciall bayle for the said John Quigley, and the said
Thomas Taylor sayth that the said Release to the said James Patti-
son by the said Garret Vanswearingen above by the said Thomas
.Pleaded doth discharge and release the said Thomas Taylor trom
the Judgm^t aforesaid against the said John Quigley, and from being
speciall bayle as aforesaid in the Cause aforesaid for the said John
Quigley, and this hee is ready to verify & thereupon Demands Judg-
ment of the Court If the aforesaid Garret Vanswearingen Execution
against him of the Judgment in the said writt of scire facias men-
coned ought to have Which being Read and heard the said Garrat
refuseth to make any further prosecucon against the said Thomas
Taylor upon the scire facias aforesaid Therefore Itt is Considered
that the said Garrat Vanswearingen take nothing thereby but for his
false Clamo^r thereupon bee in Mercy, and that the said Thomas
Taylo^r may goe thereof without day: and also that the said Thomas
Taylo^r Recover against the said Garret Vanswearingen the sume of
One thousand and foure pounds of Tobacco for his Costs and
charges by him about his defence in this behalfe Layd out and
Expended and the said Thomas may have thereof Execucon

p. 355

Garret Vanswearingen
ag^t
James Pattison & Margaret
his wife Ex^ix of Walter
Hall

Comand was given to the Sheriffe of
S^t Maryes County That Whereas Gar-
•ret Vanswearingen lately to witt upon
the Twelfth day of May in the yeare of
our Lord 1680 before the Justices of
the Provinciall Court held here the