106       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

  Liber W. C. Samuel Allen Comand was Given to the sheriffe of Dorchester
                     agt County that he take Michael Bassey late of Dor
              Michael Bassey  chester County if he shall be found in yor baliwick
                            and him safe keepe soe that hee have his body here
                 the Eighth day of November in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of
                 the Right Honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1681
                 To answere unto Samuel Allen of southampton in the Kingdome of
                 England Marchant of a plea that he render unto him the full and
                 Just sume of Twenty seaven Thousand three hundred Ninety and
                 Two pounds of good sound Marchantable and every way well condi
                 coned Tobacco and Caske wch to him he oweth and unjustly doth
                 detaine,
                   On wth said Eighth day of November aforesaid Stephen Gary sher
                 iffe of the County aforesd made returne of the writ aforesaid That
                 by vertue thereof he hath taken the body of the said Michael Bassey
                 whose body he hath ready as by the said writ he is Comanded, &
                 thereupon the said Samuel Allen by Charles Boteler his Attorney
                 moved the Court here for speciall bayle to the accon aforesaid wch
                 being granted by the Court here and the said Michael Bassey not
                 procureing speciall bayle, The said Michael Bassey is by the said
                 Sheriffe of Dorchester County Turnd over in open Court to the
                 sheriffe of St Maryes, And it is ordered by the Court here that the
                 said sheriffe of st Maryes County doe Keepe the said Michael Bassey
                 in safe Custody untill he shall put in speciall bayle to answere the
                 accon of the aforesaid Samuel Alien and to abide Judgment thereupon


                 Abraham Reid
                    agt      In Ejectment     November the 19th 1681
                 George Thompson
                             Came Abraham Reid by Kenelm Cheseldyn his
        p. 488   Attorney, and George Thompson by Robert Carvile his Attorney,
                 and this Cawse Standing att Issue ready for tryall this present Court
                 But because it appeareth to the Court here that the same is an action
                 of Ejectment and that its comenced by the said Abraham as Lessee to
                 Andrew Abington against Thomas Peele Casuall Ejector, and the said
                 George Thompson haveing named himself deft in Stead of the casuall
                 Ejector to Try the Title to a Tract of land called Netherbury Lyeing
                 in St Maryes County Containing Two hundred Acres more or Lesse,
                 Together also with one Messuage or Dwelling house with other out
                 houses and one Orchard and other appurtenances to the said Tract
                 of land belonging, and now in dispute between ye said Andrew
                 Abington and George Thompson, and the Court findeing it abso
                 lutely necessary that the due Lines and bounds of the said parcell of
                 land Now in question & also ye due Lines and bounds of Two
                 other Tracts of land belonging to the said George Thompson called
                 Skretons and Addition adjoyning to the said Land now in Question