296        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

 Liber W. C.     turned his writt the first Day of this Court and haveing been seav
                 erall times Called in Court to make returne thereof and not appear
                 ing, he is ffyned unto his Lopp the Lord Proprietary the sume of
                 Two thousand pounds of Tobacco According to an ordr of this
                 Court in that Case made and Provided:

         p. 637 Mareen Duvall Thomas Bowd!e late of Talbott County Planter
                     agt was Sumoned to answere unto Mareen Duvall
                Thomas Bowdle   Planter of a plea that he keepe with him the
                             Covenant between them made according to the
                 force forme and effect of Certain Indentures thereof betweene them
                 made.
                  And Whereupon the said Mareen Duvall by George Parker his
                 Attorney sayth That Whereas the aforesaid Thomas Bowdle by a
                 certaine Indenture made the twentyeth Day of March in the second
                 yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles Absolute Lord
                 and Propry of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron
                 of Baltemore &ca and in the yeare of Our Lord God 1677 Between
                 the aforesaid Thomas Bowdle by the name of Thomas Bowdle of
                 Talbott County in the Province of Maryland Planter of the one
                 part, and the said Mareene Duvall by the Name of Mareene Duvall
                 by the name of Mareene Duvall of Ann Arrundell County in the
                 said Province of Maryland Planter of the other part, Which said
                 Indenture with the seale of the said Thomas Bowdle Signed the
                 said Thomas Bowdie here in Court sheweth forth the Date whereof
                 is the same Day and yeare first abovenamed Itt is witnessed that
                 the aforesaid Thomas Bowdle ffor and in Consideration of the
                 full sume and Just Quantity of ffoure thousand pounds of good
                 sound and every way well conditioned Marchantable Tobacco in
                 Caske to him in hand well and truly paid by the said Mareene
                 Duvall at and before the Sealeing and Delivery of the aforesd Inden
                 ture The Receipt whereof he the said Thomas Bowdie by the Inden
                 ture aforesaid did acknowledge and Confess, and himself there
                 with fully satisfyed and payd, & thereof and every part thereof did
                 Clearly and absolutely acquitt Release and Discharge the said
                 Mareene Duvall his heires Executrs and Admrs and every of them
                 for Ever, Had Given Granted bargained sold Aliened Enfeoffed
                 and confirmed, And by the Indenture aforesaid Did Give grant
                 bargaine Sell alien Enfeoffe and Confirme unto him the said Mareene
                 Duvall his heires & Assignes for Ever, All that one full moyety
                 or half e of all that parcell of Land Called Bowdles Choice Lyeing
                 in Calvert County on the west side of Petuxent River and on the
                 West side of the Land of Demetrius Cartwright, And begining at
                 abounded Red Oake in the woods and runing west and by north
                 for Two hundred & twenty perches to a bounded white oake standing
                 by the side of a branch of Bowes Brooke, And from thence Runing