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    said partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid And the said Henry             Liber W. C.
    J owles being Admitted defendant and denyeing to confesse Lease
    Entry and Ejectment and to insist onely upon the Title, Itt is
    therefore Considered by the Court here that the said Walter smith
    Recover against the said Daniel Phillips his terme yett to come and
    unexpired of and in the messuage and One thousand Acres of land
    aforesaid Called Brooke Ridge and also that the said Walter smith
    Recover against the said William Groome Son and heire of Wil
    liam Groome decd: the sume of Eight thousand two hundred ninety
    two pounds of Tobacco for his costs and charges by him in this
    behalfe Laid out and Expended. and the said Deft in mercy &c And
    hereupon the said Walter smith prayed his Lopps: the Lord Proprys
    writt of posession to him the said Walter to be granted to Cause
    him to have his posession of the said Messuage and One thousand
    Acres of Land Called Brooke Ridge And it is granted unto him
    Returnable at the next Provinciall Court

    John Watkinson In Ejectment
         agt   The Jury finding for the Deft in this Cause the
    Thomas Collins plt by his Attorney moved in Arrest of Judgment
    And Day is thereupon given to both partyes untill the next Provin
    ciall Court:

    Henry Mitchell Memorandum that att a Provinciall Court held at           p. 585
    agt the Citty of St Maryes the foure and twentyeth
  Walter Davis day of November in the yeare of Our Lord One
               thousand six hundred and eighty Came Henry
    Mitchell of Calvert County by Robert Ridgely his Attorney and
    Exhibited to the Court here a Certaine Transcript of the Record
    of the County Court of Dorchester County in a Cause lately there
    depending betweene Walter Davis plt and the said Henry Mitchell
    deft wch followeth in these words viz
    Att a County Court held for the Right honoble the Lord Propry at the
      County of Dorchester August the fourth Anno Doni 1680
         Mr William Stephens   Mr Bartholomew Ennalls
    p sent Mr William Dorrington Quor: Mr Charles Hutchins
                                           Justices
    Dorchester ss:
      Henry Mitchell of Calvert County planter was attached to an
    swere Walter Davis of this County planter in a plea of Trespasse
    upon the Case whereupon the said Walter Davis by Thomas Patti
    son his Attorney Complayneth that Whereas the said Henry Mitchell
    stands & remaines justly indebted unto the said Walter Davis in
    the sume of foure hundred and foure pounds of tobacco and Caske
    ffor that he the said Henry Mitchell to wit in or about the fifth day
    of November in the yeare 1678 Att James Island Upon the said