Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.     257

    in Talbot County on the Eastern shoare & on the southeast side of      Liber W. C.
    a River in the said County called St Michaels River & in a small
    branch of the said River called ifausley branch Begining at a
    marked Oake and runing for breadth One hundred twenty five
    perches to a marked oake, bounded on the north by a line drawne
    East from the said Oake for the length of three hundred and twenty
    perches, On the East by a line drawne South from ye end of the
    East line for breadth One hundred twenty five perches, On the
    south by a line drawne west from the end of the south line for
    length three hundred and twenty perches unto the first marked
    Oake, On the west by the first breadth line Containing and Laid
    out for Two hundred and fifty acres more or lesse To have and
    to hold unto the said Richard Peacock & his Assigns from the
    sixteenth day of August in the yeare of Our Lord 1681 aforesaid
    for and Dureing & untill the full end and terme of three yeares
    from thence next Ensueing & fully to be compleate and ended, By
    vertue of wch demise the said Richard Peacock into the messuage
    aforesaid with the appurtenances Entered & was thereof posessed,        p. 604
    and Soe thereof being posessed the said Nicholas Hackett after
    wards to wit the same sixteenth day of August in the yeare afore
    said into the messuage aforesaid wth the appurtenances wch the
    said Michael Turbutt and Sarah his wife to him the Richard
    in forme aforesaid did demise for the terme aforesaid wch is not
    yet past did enter & him from his farme aforesaid did eject & other
    harmes to him did doe to the great Damage of him the said Richard
    and against the peace &c Whereupon he sayth he is the worse and
    hath damage to the vallue of twenty Thousand pounds of tobacco
    And thereupon he bringeth his suite
      Unlesse the Tennant in Posession or they under whome he
    Claymes doe the next Provincill Court appeare to this Declaration
    and make him or themselves defendts thereunto and by rule of
    Court confesse the Lease Entry and ejectment & insist onely upon
    the title the Deft in this Declaracon will Confesse Judgment &
    posession will be delivered accordingly to the Pit
      To James Barber Tennt in posession of the prmisses wthin men
    toned
      Now here at this day to wit the Eighteenth day of October in the
    Seaventh yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
    Baltemore &c. Annoq Doni 1682 Came the said Richard Peacock by
    his Attorney aforesaid & Offered himself against the said deft in
    the plea aforesaid but the said James Barber though Duely served
    wth a Coppy of the Declaracon aforesaid attested by William Cocks
    Clerke of this Court Nor the said Nicholas Hackett came not but
    made default Whereupon the said Richard Peacock remaineth aginst
    the said Nicholas Hackett thereof wholly undefended Itt is therefore
    considered by the Court here that the Said Richard Peacock Re-