262        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

     Liber W. C. and Thomas Taylor Arbitrators Indifferently chosen betweene both
         p. 608 the partyes abovesaid to award & make a finall Determination &
                 end of and concerning all manner of accon or accons Cause or
                 Causes of actions strifes troubles & controversies touching or con
                 cerning the Clearing of the upper part of the Land called by the
                 name of Hornes land purchased formerly by Richard Preston &
                 now in the posession of the said Lovelace Gossage in the right of
                 his wife Rebecca the daughter of the said Richard Preston & next
                 adjoyning to the land of the abovesaid William Steevens called
                 Jenkins land, Begining at the divideing line betwixt the aforesaid
                 Land Called Jenkins & the aforesaid Land called Hornes wch said
                 divideing line is mutually agreed upon by the aforesaid Partyes
                 to be the Divideing line betwixt them in the prseflce of seaverall
                 persons provided the said Arbitratrs make their Award in write
                 ing ready to be delivered to Either party desireing the same on or
                 before the Second Day of the Month called December next after
                 this prsent date That the prsent Obligacon to be voyd and of noe
                 Effect or otherwise remaine in full force power and vertue Wch
                 being read and heard the said William Steevens by his Said Attorney
                 Sayth that the said Lovelace his accon against him Ought not to
                 have because he sayth that the said Arbitrators after the makeing
                 of the said writeing Obligatory & before the said Second day of
                 December in the condition of the said writeing Obligatory men
                 tioned made noe Award Order rule Judgment or finall determina
                 tion of and concerning the prmisses in the Condition aforesaid Speci
                 fyed Ready to be delivered to either pty desireing the same And
                 this he is ready to averr, And thereupon prayeth Judgment if the
                 said Lovelace his accon against him ought to have &c And the said
                 Lovelace Gossage by his said Attorney Sayth that he from haveing
                 his accon aforesaid against the said William Ought not to be barred
                 because he sayth That the said Thomas Hutchinson Bryan Omely
                 John Pitt & Thomas Taylor the Arbitratrs aforesaid after the make
                 ing of the writeing Obligatory aforesaid & before the Second day
                 of December in the Condition aforesaid above specifyed (that is to
                 Say) the Eighteenth day of November in the yeare of Our Lord
                 1680 Att great Chaptanke in the County of Talbott haveing taken
                 upon them the burthen of the Award & Judgment of and upon the
                 premisses in the same Condition Specifyed, By their certaine write
                 ing of Award under the hands and scales of the said Arbitrators
                 ready to be delivered to Either party desireing the Same One part
                 whereof with the scale of the said Arbitratrs Signed the said Love
                 lace here in Court sheweth forth the date whereof is the same Eight
                 eenth day of November aforesaid, did award Judge & determine as
                 followeth
                 Imprimis they did Award that inasmuch as the said Lovelace
                 Gossage did unadvisedly goe about to take his Course att Lawe