122      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681/1682.

     Liber W. C. thereof had as aforesaid, and without Perticuler Lycence from The
          p. 500 Right honoble the Lord Propry or his Lewetennant General or Cheife
                 Governor for ye time being Doe privately within the Limitts of this
                 Province Contract Marriage, Every person soe Contracted or mar
                 ryed shall be Lyeable to a ifyne of One Thousand pounds of To
                 bacco and every such Preist Minister Pastor or Majestrate Joyning
                 in marriage any persons without such Publication or Lycence Or any
                 wayes Infringeing the said Act shall be Lyable to a ifyne of five
                 Thousand pounds of Tobacco, One halfe thereof to the Lord Propry
                 and the other halfe to the Informer To be Recovered by bill Plaint
                 accon of debt or informacon in any Court of Record Wherein noe
                 Essoyne proteccon or wager of Law to be allowed, And it is ffurther
                 Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all such marriages as shall
                 be made & Celebrated before some Preist Minister Pastor or Majes
                 trate without five sufficient witnesses att the least according to the
                 forme before mentioned shall be and are Cleerly declared Null and
                 voyd, The said Edward Lunn in fact sayth That the said Anthony
                 Demondadeir being one of his Lopps Justices of the Peace for the
                 County of Baltemure, Not Ignorant of the premisses But the said
                 Act Contemning. Did upon the Last day of January in the yeare of
                 our Lord God 1678 Privately within the Limitts of the said Province
                 of Maryland Joyne in Marriage One Christopher Randall and Johan
                 nah Norman Widdow wthout such publicacon made or Certifficate
                 thereof had as aforesaid Or without perticuler Lycence from the
                 Right Honoble The Lord Propry or his Leivetennt Generall or Cheife
                 Governor for the time being, Contrary to the said Act of Assembly
                 Whereby an accon is accrued to the said Edward Lunn to have and
                 Demand of the said Anthony Demondadeir Two Thousand five
                 hundred pounds of Tobacco being the One half e of ffive Thousand
                 pounds of Tobacco according to the said Act and thereupon he brings
                 his suite
                   And the said Anthony Demondadeir by Robert Carvile his At
                 torney Especially admitted by the favor of this Court Cometh and
                 Defendeth the force and injury when &c. & prayeth liberty to imparle
                 hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted him, the
                 same Day is given to the plantiffe alsoe
                   Att wch said next Provinciall Court came the said partyes by theire
                 Attorneys aforesaid & the said Anthony Demondader by his said
                 Attorney Prayeth the hearing of the Information aforesaid and Itt
                 is Read unto him, Which being read and by him understood the said
                 Anthony Complayneth him by Collour of the premisses to be grei
                 vously molested and that unjustly, and that the said Edward Lunn
                 Who aswell for himself as the Lord Propry in this behalfe followeth
                 by reason of the premisses in the Information aforesaid above speci
                 fied the same Anthony Ought not to sue or Impeach, because he saith,
                 That by one Act of Parliament begunn and held att Westminster the
                 fourth day of ffebruary in the One & thirtyeth yeare of the Raigne