Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681/1682.  167

     ended the first of December last, The said Indenture is hereunto         Liber W. C.
     annexed whereby it may appeare to yor honors more Plaine
        Your Peticoner therefore humbly Craves an Order of this
        honoble Court for his ffreedome as likewise for his ffreedome
        Come and Cloathes
                   And as in duty bound he shall pray &ca
       Wch: Peticon and Indenture aforesaid being seen and Read. It
     is the Judgment of this Court here this day to wit the Second day
     of March Anno Doni. 1681 That the said Indenture is noe good
     Indenture, Therefore itt is Ordered by the Court here that the said
     Thomas Doyly serve five yeares from the time of his arrivall in this
     Province, according to the act of Assembly in that Case made
     and Provided for Servants that come into this Province without
     Indentures

     To the honoble the Justices of the Provinciall Court
           The humble Peticon of Constant OKeiffe
     humbly Sheweth:
       That yor Peticoner had a servant namely James Kelly Who was
     arraigned and brought before yor honors for felloniously Robing of
     Elizabeth Moore & brought in guilty by the Jury for part of his
     bill before Your Honours ffor yor Peticoner expended towards
     his fees to the sheriffe Eighteene hundred thirty foure pounds of
     tobacco, and your Peticoner Knowing that it was a greate Scandall
     to yor Peticoners house did sett acquitt & discharge the said Kelly
     of all service & services due to yor Peticoner Onely that the said
     Kelly would in Convenient time pay yor Peticonr the Tobacco
     Expended, and on the Tenth day of December the said Kelly did
     come to yor Peticoner and did then Indent to Serve yor Peticoner Two
     yeares faithfully & truly the said Kelly being to have his Come and
     Cloathes at the expiracon of the said time, and now the said Kelly
     absolutely Denyeth any Service due to yor Peticoner but sayth he is
     as free as yor Peticoner & wth all Demands his Corne and cloathes
        The prmisses considered Yor Peticoner humbly prayeth that
        yor honors would confirme his said Indenture whereby yor
        Peticoner may have some satisfaction for all the trouble he
        hath beene att
                        And yor Peticoner shall pray &c.
       Wch. Petican aforesaid being read & heard and likewise the
     Indenture in the said Peticon mentioned It is the Judgment of the
     Court here this fourth day of March 1681 that the said Indenture
     is a good Indenture & that the said James Kelly Ought to serve
     according to the tenor thereof, & the said Constant OKeife makeing
     oath in Court that the said James Kelly in the time of his servitude
     with him the said Constant OKeife & before his arraignment for
     ifellony as aforesaid, did absent himselfe from the service of him
     the said Constant ffifteene dayes for he also craved f[ur]ther