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    fully understood and dilligently Examined, And for that it appear-      Liber W. C.
    eth to the same Justices that in the Record and Processes a fore
    said & the Rendering Judgment aforesaid Itt is manifestly Erred
    Therefore It is Considered by the Court here that the Judgment
    aforesaid for the Errors in the Record Processe and Proceedings
    aforesaid be Revoaked adnulled and altogether held for Nothing,
    & that the said Peter Ellis & Eliza his wife Admrx as aforesaid
    unto all things wch they by Occasion of the Judgmt aforesaid have
    Lost be Restored, And that the said Peter Ellis and Elizabeth his
    wife Recover against the said Thomas Preston from the sume of
    Two thousand Nine hundred Eighty & Nine pounds of tobacco
    for their Costs and charges in this behalfe Layd out and Expended

    Thomas Tasker
       agt     In Ejectmt March ye 2d 1681
    John Brome
                 The Deft moved the Court here that Whereas
    there was an Injunction formerly granted in this Cause & the same
    accordingly issued being directed to Robert Brooke heire of Eliza
    beth Brooke daughter and heire of William Thompson deceased &
    Thomas Cosden his Guardian to Stop the Proceedings at Comon
    Lawe in this Cause untill the said Plantiffe should Put in his answere
    to the Defts bill of Complt and this Court give further order to the
    Contrary, but because the said Brookes name was mistaken in the
    said Injunction and likewise in the defts bill of Complt (to wit)
    Robert, in Stead (of William) the said Plantiffes refused to answere
    thereunto, Whereupon the said deft prayed Liberty to amend his
    said bill by putting in (Wm Brooke) instead of (Robert) ) & that
    another Injunction may issue to the said William Brooke and Thomas
    Cosden their Attorneys &c directed to Stopp the Proceedings at the
    Comon Lawe in this Cawse untill they have put in their answere to
    the said bill of Complaint and this Court give further order to the
    Contrary and It is granted by the Court here & this Cawse Con
    tinued untill next Court the said Deft paying to the Plantiffe Thir
    teen shillings and foure Pence costs of suite for ye same

    John Rousby 1 Joseph spernon late of Cecill County was attached
        agt to answere unto John Rousby of a plea of Tres
    Joseph SpernonJ passe of the Case
                 And Whereupon the said John Rousby in his
    prop pson sayth That whereas by an act of Assembly made at the
    Citty of st Maryes begunn and held the sixteenth day of May in the
    yeare of our Lord 1676 Itt stands Enacted by the authority of the
    same Assembly amongst other things That for the better discov
    ery of runawayes any person or persons whatsoever within this Prov
    ince travaileing out of the Country where he she or they shall Live
    or reside wthout a passe under the scale of the said County for wch