Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682. 227

      doe the next Provinciall Court appeare to this Declaration and          Liber W. C.
      make him or themselves defts. thereunto & by rule of Court Con
      fesse the aforesaid Lease entry and ejectment and insist onely upon
      the Title the deft in this Declaration will Con fesse Judgment and
      possession will be delivered accordingly to the plt
      To William Grant Tennant in possession of the premises wthin
      Menconed
                                      Danll Phillipps.
        Att wch said next Provinciall Court came the said plt by his
      Attorney aforesaid & Harry Jowles by George Parker his Attorney
      & defended the force and Injury when &c. And in the same Cause
      It is Ordered by the Consent of the said plt and deft and their
      Attorneys that the said Henry Jowles should be admitted deft:
      And that he forthwith appeare and Receive a Declaracon and plead
      to it the general Issue, And at the Tryall to be thereupon had the
      said Henry Jowles shall appeare in his prop pson and shall Con
      fesse Lease Entry and Ejectment or that in Default thereof Judg
      ment shall be Entred against the said Defendt Daniel Phillips the
      Casuall Ejector, But all further prosecucon agt him shall cease
      untill the Said Henry Jowles shall make default in any of the
      prmisses, And Itt is further Ordered by the Court by the Consent         p. 580
      aforesaid that the said Henry Jowles shall not take any advantage
      against the plt for not Prosecuteing upon the tryall occasioned by
      such default but that the said Henry Jowles shall pay to the plt the
      Costs by this Court to be taxed in this Cause, And Itt is further
      Ordered that the Lessor to the plt shall be Charged wth the Pay
      ment of the costs to the deft If any be adjudged to him and the
      same Cause was continued untill the next Provinciall Court
        Att wch said next Provinciall Court to witt the second day of
      May in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Rtt honobie Charles
      Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1681 Came the said Partyes by
      their Attorneys aforesaid, viz the said plt by his said Attorney and
      William Groome Sonn and heire of William Groome decd an infant
      undr the age of One and Twenty yeares by Henry Jowles and
      Sybilla his wife his guardians by this Court Admitted deft: by his
      said Attorney, And this Cause standing at issue Ready for tryall
      this present Court, but because it appeareth to the Court here that
      it is an Accon of Ejectment & that it is Comenced by the said
      Walter Smith as Lessee of Richard Smith & Elizabeth his wife &
      Christopher Baynes & Ann his wife against Daniel Phillipps Casuall
      Ejector to try the title to one Messuage and One thousand Acres
      of land called Brooke Ridge Lyeing on the south side of Petuxent
      River betweene Brooke Creeke & a Western branch of the Divide
      ing Creeke called St Charles Begining att a marked oake by the
      side of st Charles branch wth a line drawne west from the said Oake
      for the length of two hundred and fifty perches to an oake, With