Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.     113

     Edward Pindar                                                      Liber W. C.
                   This Cawse being upon a Scire facias is con
       ag          tinued untill next Provinciall Court
     Benjamin Lawrence
     Robert Carvile
        Unlesse the Deft appeare next Court the Sher
                life of st Maryes County amerced
     Ignatious Warren
     Henry Brent & Ann his wife Comand was given to the Sheriffe of
     Exx of Baker Brooke Esqr st Maryes County that he take John
late surveyor of the    Manley Otherwise called John Manley
     Province of Maryland decd of St Maryes County gentl If he
          agt           should be found in his Baliwick and
John Manley Gentl:      him Safe Keepe soe that he have his
                        body before the Justices of the Provin
     ciall Court to be held at the Citty of st Maryes the Eight day of
     November in the Sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble
     Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annocp Doni. 1681 To answere unto
     Henry Brent & Ann his wife Exix of the Last Will and Testament of
     Baker Brooke Esqr late Surveyor Generall of the Province of Mary
     land decd Of a plea that hee Render unto them the sume of One
     hundred thousand pounds of Tobacco wch to them hee oweth and
     unjustly Detaineth, On wch said Eighth day of November aforesaid
     Major William Boareman sheriffe of st Maryes County aforesaid
     made returne of the writ aforesaid that the said John Manley is
     not to be found within his Baliwick Whereupon the said Henry
     Brent & Ann his wife by Robert Carvile their Attorney pray An
     attachment against the goods, Chattles & Debts of the said John
     Manley According to an Act of Assembly in that Case made and
     provided, and It is granted unto them by the Court here

     Thomas Smithson Comand was given to the sheriffe of Somersett p. 494[a]
         agt County that he attach any the goods or Chatt!es
  Richard Covell of Richard Covell if they should be found in his
                 baliwick to the Vallue of Six Thousand Six hun
     dred pounds of Tobacco, and when he hath the same soe attached
     or any part thereof the same in his Custody to Keepe untill the said
     Richard Covell should by himself or his Attorney appeare here the
     Eighth day of November in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the
     Right honoble Charles Lord Baltimore &ca Annoq Doni. 1681 To
     answere unto Thomas Smithson in a plea of Trespasse of the Case,
     On wch said Eighth day of November aforesaid John White gentl
     Sheriffe of the County aforesaid made returne of the writ aforesaid
     That by vertue thereof he hath attached in the hands of Randall
     Revell of the same County the sume of Three Thousand pounds
     of Tobacco a Certaine debt Recovered by the said Richard Covell
     against the said Randall Revell in the Provinciall Court the ffifteenth
     day of October 1679 and One thousand forty Eight pounds of
     Tobacco for Costs of suite In all ffoure thousand forty eight pounds