310       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

     Liber W. C. the said Gerrard but he the same would not accept, and this he is
                 Ready to Averr and Prayes judgment whether the said Gerrard
                 his accon aforesaid ought to have
                   And the said Gerrard Slye sayth that for as much as the said
                 William Boareman doth not gainesay but that he did by vertue of
                 the said writ of Capias ad Satisfaciendum at the suite of the said
                 Gerrard Slye Admr of the said Richard Chilman take the body of
                 the said Nehemiah Blackiston as by the said writ he was required,
                 and the same Nehemiah in his Custody did keepe by vertue of the
                 writ aforesaid. and doth not denye but that he Sufferred the said
                 Nehemiah to goe at large without the Consent or knowledge of
                 the said Gerrard and without satisfyeing to him the said Gerrard
                 the aforesaid Debt of Two thousand sixty seaven pounds of tobacco
                 & the said Costs of two hundred twenty Six pounds of tobacco
                 according to the Tenor of the said writ of Capias ad satisfaciendum
                 Therefore he the said Gerrard Demands Judgment against him the
                 said William for his Debt aforesaid Together with his Damages
                 and Costs of suite
                   And the said William Sayth as in his Plea aforesaid he hath
                 sayd that the said Gerrard Slye Admr as aforesaid ought to be
                 barred from haveing his accon aforesaid ffor that he sayth that the
                 aforesaid Nehemiah Blackiston did make full satisfaccon unto him
                 the said William Boareman of the said Debt for wch he tooke him
                 in Execution at the suite of the said Gerrard Slye Admr as afore
                 said, And that he the said William before the bringing of the said
                 action of Trespasse against him the said William Boareman by the
                 said Gerrard and ever Since Alwayes was and Still is ready to pay
                 the same but the said Gerrard would not accept the same, And that
                 the goeing at Large of the said Nehemiah upon the satisfaccon
                 aforesaid & the tender of the same to the said Gerrard & his refuseall
                 of the same was a Legall goeing at large as in his plea he hath Justi
                 fied, and that the said plea in manner aforesaid pleaded both ex
                 presses and Implyes all Denyall of Letting him goe at Large with
                 out knowledge consent and Satisfaccon of the said Gerrard Slye
                 as farforthly as is necessary to be Denyed or traversed, and Prayes
                 as a fore in his Plea whither the said Gerrard his accon shall
                 have or not: And the said Gerrard Slye sayth that the Rejoynder
                 and the matter therein contained of him the said William Boareman
                 sheriffe of st Maries County Is in nothing Sufficient to barr the said
                 Gerrard from haveing his Accon aforesaid because by Protestation
                 Denyeing that the said William did make such tender to him the
                 said Gerrard of the said sume of Two thousand sixty seaven pounds
        p. 648   of tobacco and two hundred twenty Six pounds of tobacco Amount
                 ing to Two thousand two hundred ninety three pounds of tobacco
                 specified in the said Declaracon to be the Sume for wch the said
                 Nehemiah was upon a Capias ad Satisfaciendum at suite of the