218       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

  Liber W. C. Timothy Parker & Compa The pits this Court file their bill agt the
                     agt deft being one of the Attorneys of this
              George Thompson       Court. And the deft by George Parker
                                  his Attorney appeares & Imparles untill
                                  the next Provinciall Court:

                James Mills Henry Johnson late of Baltemore County was at
                   agt tached to answere unto James Mills of a plea of
                Henry Johnson Trespasse of the Case
                             And Whereupon the said James Mills by Robert
                 Carvile his Attorney sayth That Whereas the said James upon the
                 Tenth day of ffebruary in the yeare of Our Lord 1677 at the Plan
                 tacon of him the said James in the County aforesaid was Posessed
                 of One Briggantine wth mast sayles and Rigging to the Same.
                 belonging of the prop goods and Chattles of him thee said James
          p. 572 of the Vallue of ifourteene thousand thousand pounds of tobacco
                 And Soe being thereof posessed the sd Henry on the fourteenth day
                 of ffebruary aforesaid the Same Briggantine and Sales aforesaid
                 Out of the hands and Posession of him the Said James Did take &
                 Carry away And although the said Henry Knowes the said Brig
                 gantine and Sales to be the prop goods and Chattles of him the
                 Said James & to him of right to belong & appertaine Craftily and
                 fraudulently intending him the said James in that behalfe Craftily
                 and Subtilly to deceive and Defraude The said Briggantine & Sales
                 to the said James though often thereunto requested hath not deliv
                 ered but the same Briggantine and Sales to his owne prop use &
                 pfitt hath Converted and Disposed to the Losse of the said James
                 Twenty thousand pounds of Tobacco And thereupon he bringeth
                 his Suite And the said Henry Johnson by Robert Ridgely his Attor
                 ney Cometh and Defendeth the force and Injury when &c. And
                 prayeth Liberty to imparle hereunto untill the next Provinciall
                 Court and it is granted unto him the Same day is given to the plt also:
                  Att wch said next Provinciall Court came the said partyes by
                 their Attorneys aforesaid And the said Henry Johnson by his said
                 Attorney sayth he is not guilty of the premisses above Imposed
                 upon him in manner & forme as the said James Mills above
                 against him hath Complayned And of this he putts himself upon the
                 Country. And the plt likewise
                  Therefore Itt is Comanded the sheriffe of St Maryes County
                 that he Cause to come here Twelve &c. by whome &c and Who
                 neither &c to Recognize &c because aswell &c.
                  Afterwards to wit the ffifteenth day of ffebruary in the
                 sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                 Baltemore &c. Annoq Doni 1680--Came the said partyes by
                 their Attorneys aforesaid And the Jurors Impannelled being called
                 likewise came to wit Richard Lloyd Michael Ashford William