226       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

   Liber W. C. Walter Smith Daniel Phillips late of Calvert County planter was
                    agt attached to answere unto Walter smith of a plea
              Daniel Phillips wherefore with force and Armes One messuage
                           and One thousand Acres of land in Calvert County
                aforesaid Called Brooke Ridge wch Richard Smith and Elizabeth
                his wife & Christopher Baines and Anne his wife to him the said
                Walter did demise for a terme wch is not yett past Did Enter &
                him from his ffarme aforesaid did eject and other harmes to him
                did doe to the great damage of him the said Walter and against the
                Peace of the Right Honoble the Lord Propry
         p. 579 And Whereupon the said Walter smith by Christopher Rousby
                his Attorney Complayneth that Whereas the said Richard smith and
                Elizabeth his wife & the said Christopher Baines & Ann his wife
                the first day of July in the yeare of Our Lord 1680 Att Calvert
                towne in the County aforesaid Did demise unto him the said
                Walter the aforesaid Messuage and One thousand Acres of Land
                Called Brooke Ridge Lyeing on the south side of Petuxent River
                between Brooke Creeke and a Westerne branch of the Divideing
                Creeke Called St Charles, Begining att a marked Oake by the side
                of St Charles his branch Wth a line drawne west from the said
                Oake for the Length of Two hundred and fifty perches to an Oake,
                With a line drawne South from the end of the said west line for
                the Length of six hundred and fifty pches to a marked Oake, with
                a line drawne East from the end of the south line for the Length
                of Two hundred and ffifty perches to a marked Oake standing by
                brooke Creeke, a line drawne north from the end of the East
                line for the Length of six hundred and fifty perches to the first
                bounded tree standing on the side of St Charles his branch afore
                said To hold to him the said Walter and his Assignes from the
                feast of the Annuntiacon of the blessed Virgin Mary then last past
                unto the end and terme of three yeares thence next following fully
                to be Compleate & ended, By vertue of wch said Demise the said
                Walter into the Tenement aforesaid with the appurtenances did
                Enter and was thereof posessed and being Soe thereof posessed
                Afterwards to wit the said first day of July in the yeare of our
                Lord 1680 the aforesaid Daniel into the Tenement Lands and
                prmisses aforesaid wch the said Richard Smith and Elizabeth his
                wife the sd Christopher Baynes & Ann his wife in forme aforesaid
                had Demised to the said Walter for a terme wch is not yett past
                did enter and him from his farme aforesaid did Eject & other
                Enormityes to him did doe to the greate Damage of the said
                Walter smith and against the peace of the Right Honoble the Lord
                Propry Whereupon he sayth he is the worse and hath Losse to the
                vallue of Tenn thousand Pounds of Tobacco & thereupon he bring
                eth his suite
                  Unlesse the Tenant in posession or they undr whom he claymes