304        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

 Liber W. C.     Taylor Nor the said Edward Husbands though solemnly Called
                 came not but made default It is therefore Considered by the Court
                 here that the said Anthony Underwood recover against the said Wil
                 liam Taylor his terme yet to come & unexpired of the aforemenconed
                 parcell of Land Called Painters Rest with the appurtenances And
                 hereupon the said Anthony Underwood by his Attorney aforesaid
                 prayed his Lopps the Lord Proprys writ of posession to him to be
                 Awarded to Cause him to have posession of the said Land and
                 premisses And it is granted by the Court here,

          p. 643 Nathanael Maning  Walter Smith late of Calvert County was at
                 agt         tached to answere unto Nathanael Maning of a
                Walter Smith plea wherefore by force and Armes into one
                              Messuage & One hundred Acres of Land being
                 the middlemost hundred Acres of a parcell of Land Containing
                 Three hundred Acres more or less called the Gore Lyeing in Calvert
                 County aforesaid Neare the Cliffts Holden of the Mannor of Ann
                 Arrundell John Maning to him the Said Nathanael did Demise
                 for a terme wch is not yett past did Enter, and him from his ifarme
                 aforesaid did Eject & other Enormityes to him did doe To the great
                 Damage of him the said Nathanael and against the peace of the
                 Right honoble the Lord Propry his rule &c.
                  And Whereupon the said Nathanael by Charles Boteler his At
                 torney complayneth that Whereas the said John Maning the first
                 day of July in the yeare of Our Lord 1681 at the Cliffts in Calvert
                 County aforesaid did Demise unto the said Nathanae! the a fore
                 said Messuage and One hundred Acres of Land being the Middle-
                 most hundred Acres of a parcell of Land Conteyning three hun
                 dred Acres Called the Goare Lyeing in Calvert County aforesaid
                 neare the Clifts Holden of the Mannor of Ann Arrundell To hold
                 him the said Nathanael and his Assignes from the feast of the
                 Anuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary then last past unto the end
                 and Terme of three yeares next following fully to be Compleate
                 and ended, By vertue of wch said Demise the said Nathanael Man
                 ing into the Tenement aforesaid with the appurtenances did enter
                 and was thereof posessed, And being soe thereof posessed After
                 wards (to wit) the said first day of July in the yeare of our Lord
                 1681 the aforesaid Walter Smith into the Messuage Lands and
                 premises aforesaid wch the sd John Maning in forme aforesaid to
                 the said Nathanaeh had Demised for a terme wch is not yet past,
                 did Enter, and him from his ifarme aforesaid did Eject and other
                 Enormityes to him did doe to the greate Damage of him the said
                 Nathanael and against the peace of the Right honoble the Lord
                 Propty &ca And Whereupon he sayth he hath Loss 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