256        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

Liber W. C.     torneys aforesaid, And the said William Dixon and Elizabeth his
                 wife William Sharpe and Thomas Taylor by their said Attorney
                 Say that the said Winlock did not Assume and promise in manner
                 and forme as the said Plt above against him in his Declaracon hath
                 Complayned And of this they Put themselves upon the Country
                 And the Plt likewise
          p. 603 Itt is therefore comanded the sheriffe of St Maryes County that
                 hee Cause to come here twelve &c. by whome &c. and Who Neither
                 &c to Recognize &c. because as well &c
                   On wch said Sixteenth day of October in the yeare aforesaid
                 Came the said partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid and the Jurors
                 Impannelled being Called likewise came to wit Symon Wilmer
                 Henry Mitchell ffrancis Gutterick George Hodgeson, James Peter-
                 kin Richard Jones Leonard Greene, John Alward, John Miller,
                 John Cassock, Samuel Dobson & Robert Gutterick Who being elected
                 tryed and sworne to say the truth in the prmisses upon their Oathes
                 doe say That the said Winlock Christenson did assume and promise
                 in manner & forme as the said plt above against him hath Com
                 plained to the great Damage of the plt but because it is not Knowne
                 to the Court here what damages the said plt hath sustained by
                 Occasion thereof Itt is therefore Ordered by the Court that a writt
                 of Enquiry of damages issue thereupon returnable at the next Pro
                 vinciall Court

                 John    Manning Ordered that this Cause pemptorily come to tryall
                     agt the next Provinciall Court or else Judgment to
               William Harris passe against the Deft and writ of posession to
                             issue thereupon
                 Richard Peacock     Nicholas Hackett late of Talbot
                   agt       in Ejectmt County planter was attached to an-
                 Nicholas Hackettswere unto Richard Peacock of a
                      plea wherefore by force & Armes
                 One messuage of Two hundred and fifty acres of land called ifausley
                 Lyeing in Talbot County aforesaid on the Easterne Shoare & on
                 the South side of a River in the said County called st Michaels
                 River Michael Turbutt and Sarah his wife to him the said
                 Richard Peacock demised for a terme not yet past, he Entered, &
                 him from his ifarme aforesaid did Eject & other harmes to him did
                 doe to the great damage of the said Richard and against the Peace
                 of the Lord Propry &c.
                   And Whereupon the said Richard Peacock by John Rousby
                 his Attorney complayneth that whereas the said Michael Turbutt
                 and Sarah his wife upon the sixteenth day of August in the yeare
                 of our Lord 1681 had Demised to the said Richard the said Mes
                 suage or parcell of land Called ifausley th'appurtenances lyeing