90 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

John Darnall agt Wm Harris

The plt haveing formerly Attached in the Defendts hands foure thousand pounds of tobacco due from him unto Jarvis Ballard And itt being made appeare

to this Court, that the said W^m Harris hath none of
the Estate of the said Jarvis Ballard in his hands Therefore itt is
considered by the Court here this day to witt the fourteenth day of
ffebruary in the fifth yeare of the Dominion of the right Hon^ble
Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1679, that the Attachm^t
aforesaid against the said W^m Harris be quashed.

John Davis agt Wm Boyden

William Boyden late of Charles County was Attached to Answer unto John Davis of a plea of trespas of the case And whereupon the said John Davis by Robert Car- vile his Attorney saith, that the said John Davis being

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upon the last day of Decembr One thousand six hundred Seventy seven possessed of twro Servants named Edward Powell & Elizabeth haveing two yeares & upwards to serve, being of the proper goods & Chattles of the said John And so being possessed the said Edward Powell & Elizabeth his wife from the service of the said John did absent themselves And afterwards to witt the first day of January One thousand six hundred Seventy seven to the possession of the same Wm came. And he the said W "knowing the said Edward & Elizabeth to be the proper servants of the said John Davis, & to the said John of right to belong & appertaine, craftily & fraudulently intending the said John in that behalfe craftily & subtily to deceive & defraud, the said two servants to the said John though often there- unto requested hath not delivered, but the servants aforesaid to his owne proper use & profitt converted and disposed, to the losse of the said John tenn thousand pounds of tobacco, & thereupon he bringeth his suite And the said William by John Rousby his Attorney cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provintiall Court, & it is granted unto him, the same day is given to the plt also Now here att this day to witt the Seaventeenth day of ffebruary in the fifth yeare of the Dominion of the right Honble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1679 came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid, And the said William by his said Attorney saith, that he is not guilty of the prmisses above declared against him And of this he putts himselfe upon the Countrey And the plt also Therefore itt is comanded the Sheriffe of St Maryes County that he cause to come here twelve &c by whom &c and who neither &c to recognize &c because as well &c which jurors bring impannelled & called came to witt Thomas Cosden, Joseph Tilley, Marmaduke Semme Samuel Holdsworth. John King, Wm Husbands, Tho: Sedg- wick, Robert Mason, James Lewis, Tho: Alcock, John Bouchier &