320       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

    Liber W.C.  Thomas make such promise as the said Thomas hath above declared
                 against him and of this he puts himself upon the Country. And
                 the plt Likewise
                  Itt is therefore comanded the sheriffe of St Maries County that
                 he Cause to come here twelve &c. by whome &c. and who neither &c.
                 to recognize &c. because aswell &c.
                  On wch said third day of Aprill in the yeare aforesaid Came the
                 said partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid and the Jurors Impannelled
                 being Called likewise came (to wit) James Bowling Thomas Hussey
         p.656  Thomas Pemberton [Emanuel] Pitcher, Daniel Murphy Thomas Til
                 lett, John Yeomans Daniel Clocker, John Tong, Stephen Luffe,
                 Thomas Stonestreet & John Bradsher Who being elected tryed and
                 sworne to say the truth in the premisses Upon their Oathes doe Say
                 that the said Jacob Morrice did assume upon himself and to the said
                 Thomas Lord make such promise as the said Thomas hath above
                 declared against him & that the said Jacob his said promise and
                 Assumption with the said Thomas hath not kept but broken and
                 they Assess the Damage of the said Thomas to Twelve thousand
                 pounds of tobacco Itt is therefore considered by the Court here that
                 the said Thomas Lord Recover against the said Jacob Morrice
                 aswell the aforesaid sume of Twelve thousand pounds of Tobacco
                 damages by the Jurors aforesaid in fornie aforesaid Assessed as
                 also the sume of Two thousand two hundred & twenty pounds of
                 tobacco for Costs of Suite, and the Said deft in mercy &c

                Wm Chesheire The Jury finding for the plt in this cawse Twenty
                     agt thousand pounds of tobacco with Costs of Suite
              Thomas Carvile & the Defendant guilty of Suborning witnesses
                             against the plt The Defendant by Anthony
                 Underwood his Attorney moved in Arrest of Judgment and Day is
                 thereupon given to both partyes untili the next Provinciall Court.

                wm Jameson als. Tong Comand was given to the sheriffe of Tal
                     agt bot County that he take Richard Royston
                 Richard Royston   If he should be found in his Baliwick and
                 him safe Keepe soe that he have his body
                 here the Six and twentyeth day of September in the seaventh yeare
                 of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c.
                 Annoq Doni. 1682: to answere unto William Jameson als Tong
                 in a plea of trespasse of the case. Wch said Provinciali Court wch
                 on the Said Six and twentyeth day of September was to be held as
                 aforesaid was by his Lopps writ of Adjournment Adjourned untili
                 the tenth day of October then next ffollowing, On wch said Tenth
                 day of October. Capt Jonathan Sybrey Sheriffe of the County afore
                 said made returne of the writ aforesaid that by vertue thereof he
                 had taken the said Richard Royston whose body he had ready as