168      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681/1682.

 Liber W. C.     service of the said James Kelly according to act of Assembly in
                 that case made & provided Whereupon It is further Ordered by the
                 Court here that the said James Kelly serve the said Constant Okeiffe
                 after the expiracon of the said Indenture serve the said Constant
                 OKeife One hundred and fifty dayes for his absenting himselfe
                 from the said Constant's service fifteene dayes aforesaid
       p. 532    To the honoble the Justices of the Provinciall Court
             The humble Peticon of Richard Clarke late servant to Robert
                                Carvile gentt:
                 humbly Sheweth
                   That yor Peticoner hath served his said Master five yeares ac
                 cording to the custome in this Province used for Servants that come
                 in without Indentures Neverthelesse his said Master refuses to give
                 him a discharge & also to pay him his ffreedome Corne and Cloathes
                    Your Peticoner therefore humbly craves an ordr of this Court
                    for his ffreedome & ffreedome Come and Cloathes, And as in
                    duty bound he shall pray &c.
                   Which Peticon aforesaid being read and heard and the said Rob
                 ert Carvile being prsent in Court & alleadging that the said Richard
                 Clarke and one other Servant of his named Thomas were
                 by him in a short time after their arrivall in this Province brought
                 to this Court to be adjudged of what age they were, and were both
                 on one day Adjudged to serve six yeares a peice, & that the adjudg
                 ment of the said Thomas appeares upon the Records of
                 this Court. but by Neglect of John Blomfeild then Clerke of the
                 said Court. the adjudgment of the said Richd Clarke is not Entred
                 upon Record, and therefore prayed that by the Neglect of the said
                 John Blomfeild he may not Loose the benifit of a yeares Service
                 of the said Richard Clarke but that the said Richard may compleate
                 his time of service of six yeares according to the said adjudgment:
                   Whereupon this Court were fully satisfyed that the said Richard
                 Clarke was adjudged in this Court to serve six yeares and that it
                 was the neglect of the said John Blomfeild then the Clerke of this
                 Court that the said adjudgment was not Entered upon Record Itt
                 is therefore by the Court here this day to wit the fourth day of
                 March Annoq Doni 1681 Ordered that the said Richard Clarke
                 serve the said Robert Carvile six yeares from the time of the
                 adjudgment of the said Thomas. as ye same appeares
                 upon Record:

             Lovelace Gossage     March ye 6th 1681
                      agt    Ordered by the Court by and with the Consent
                 Wm Stevens senr of the Attorneys of both sides that the Deposi
                             tions of the P!antiffes Witnesses be taken in
                 writeing and to be admitted as Evidence at the Tryall of the action.