306       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

 Liber W. C.     came not but made default whereupon the said Nathanae! Maning
                 remaineth against them the said Walter Smith & William Harris
                 thereof wholly undefended: It is therefore considered by the Court
                 here that the said Nathanael Maning Recover against the said
                 Walter Smith his Terme yet to come and unexpired of and in the
                 aforementioned one Messuage and one hundred Acres of land being
                 the midd!emost Hundred Acres of a parcell of Land containing
                 Three hundred Acres more or less Called the Goare & also that the
                 said Nathanael Maning Recover against the said Walter Smith
                 the sume of           pounds of tobacco for Costs of
                 suite, and the said Walter in mercy &c: and hereupon the said
                 Nathanael by his Attorney aforesaid Prayed his Lopps the Right
                 honoble the Lord Proprys writ of posession to him the Nathanael
                 to be Awarded to Cause him to have posession of the said Messuage
                 and One hundred Acres of land And it is granted by the Court
                 here returnable at the next Provinciall Court

                 Gerrard Slye  William Boareman gentl High Sheriffe of the
                    agt County of st Maryes was Attached to answere
              Wm Boareman    unto Gerrard Slye Admr of the goods and Chattles
                           of Richard Chilman deed in a plea of Trespass
                           upon the Case
                  And Whereupon the said Gerrard by Christopher Rousby his
                 Attorney Complayneth that Whereas Nehemiah Blackiston late of
                 the said County of Maries gentl. Did stand indebted unto the
                 said Richard Chilman the sume of two thousand foure hundred
                 Sixty seaven pounds of tobacco for Seaverall Liquors and other
                 Ordinary accomodations wch he had received of the sd Chilman in
                 his life time, wch said sume of Two thousand foure hundred sixty
                 seaven pounds of tobacco he the said Nehemiah Blackiston did
                 faile to pay to the Said Richard Chilman in his life time, and to
                 the said Gerrard to whome Administration of all and Singular the
                 goods Chattles & debts of the said Richard was by the honoble Philip
                 Calvert Esqr Comissary of Maryland comitted after the death of
                 the said Richard though often thereunto required ffor recovery
                 whereof he the said Gerrard the third day of June 1679 did by
                 Thomas Lomax his Attorney prosecute and sue out of his Lopps
                 Court held for the County of st Maries his Lopps writ of Capias
                 against him the said Nehemiah Blakiston Returneable the first Tues
                 day in August following Directed to the said William Boareman
          p. 645 then and still Sheriffe of the said County of St Maries Whereby
                 It was comanded the said sheriffe to take the body of the said
                 Nehemiah Blakiston If he should be found in his Baliwick & him
                 safely keepe soe as to have the said Nehemiah before his Lopps
                 Justices of the said County Court the said first Tuesday in August
                 aforesaid to answere unto the said Gerrard in a plea of Trespasse