324        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

    Liber W.C.  Henry came here the first day by Sumons &ca
                Taken and Acknowledged the third day of
                Aprill 1683 before me Vincent Lowe


                Wm Coursey Comand was given to the sheriffe of St Maries
                   agt County that by good and legall men of his bali-
              Thomas Vaughan wick he make knowne to Thomas Vaughan that
                             all excuses sett apart he be and appeare before
                the Justices here the nine and Twentyeth day of March in the
                eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1683 to shew Cause if any he hath
                why execution should not passe against him upon a Recognizance
                Entered into by the said Thomas Vaughan to the said William
                Coursey bearing date the one and twentyeth day of March Annoq
                Doni 1681 for the sume of Two hundred thousand pounds of
                tobacco:
                  On wch said nine and twentyeth day of March in the yeare a fore
                said Joshua Doyne gent Sheriffe of the County of St Maries afore
                said made returne of the writ aforesaid that by vertue thereof he
                had by good & Lawfull men of his baliwick made Knowne to the
                said Thomas Vaughan to be and appeare here as by the said writ
                he was comanded
                  Afterwards to wit the thirtyeth day of March in the yeare afore
                said came the said William Coursey by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                and the said Thomas in his proper pson and the said Thomas sayth
                that he cannot Gainsay the accon of the said William aforesaid
                against him the said Thomas Nor but that he the said Thomas doth
                owe to him the said William the said Sume of Two hundred thou
                sand pounds of tobacco and sayth nothing else thereto By reason
                of wch the said William remayneth against the said Thomas thereof
                without defence, It is therefore considered by the Court here that
                the said William Coursey Recover against the said Thomas Vaughan
                aswell the aforesaid sume of Two hundred thousand pounds of
                tobacco debt as also the sume of ffive hundred and twenty pounds
                of tobacco for Costs of suite and the Defendant in mercy &Ca

                Wm Leeds George Abbott late of Calvert County was attached
                  agt to answere unto Wm Leedes of a plea of Trespass of
                George Abbott the Case
                             And Whereupon the said William by Robert
                Carvile his Attorney sayth that whereas the said William Leedes
                upon the Sixteenth day of June in the yeare of our Lord 1681 at
                Miles River in Talbot County was posessed of one Man servant
        p. 660  named William Berry of the Vallue and price of three thousand
                five hundred pounds of tobacco as his proper Servant, and soe
                thereof being posessed the said Servant out of his hands and poses
                sion Casually lost, which Servant Afterwards that is to Say the