334        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

    Liber W. C. Aprill the 1st 1683:
                  Came into open Court James Phillips of Baltemore County &
                acknowledged himself to be Surety for James Mills of the same
                County gentt for the Costs to be taxed in all the accons now depend
                ing between the said James Mills plt and Thomas Pemberton and
                John Walls or either of them defts: If it shall happen that the said
                James Mills therein shall be Cast and doe not satisfy and pay the
                Same

                                          Test:   Wm Cocks Clke
          Wm Digges Esqr AdmrThis Cause being upon a writ of Enquiry
           of Edward Oistinof damages & the Jury haveing found
                  agtfor the plt Tenn thousand pounds of
          William Dixon & ats Exrs Tobacco damages with Costs of suite,
          of Wenlock ChristensonThe defts by Kenelm Cheseldyn their
                Attorney moved in Arrest of Judgment
                And Day is thereupon given to both partyes untill next Provinciall
                Court
                John Hartwell .     .                  .   It
                  a This Cause is Struck of the Docquet Neither p
                  g nor deft appeareing to prosecute:
                Thomas Keeting

                Martha Ridgely EXX of Edward Inglish gentt sheriffe of Cecill
                Robert Ridgely County haveing formerly returned a Cepi
                 agt             Corpus in this Cause and not haveing the
                John Hylandbody of the Deft here this Court the same
                Sheriffe is Amerced unto his Lspp the Lord
                Proprietary the Sume of forty shillings sterling & ordered to have
                the body of the Deft here at the next Court

                Raymond Stapleford This accon being for Twenty two pounds Six
                     agt shillings and Tenn pence sterling the plt by
                Thomas Cooke:Robert Carvile his Attorney moved for Spe
                ciall bayle to the Said accon: Whereupon the
                Court this day to wit the third day of Aprill in the Eighth yeare
         p. 669 of the [Dominion] of the Right honoble Charles Lord Baltemore
                &ca Annoq Doni 1683 comitted the said Thomas Cooke into the
                custody of the sheriffe of St Maries County there to remaine untill
                he find Speciall bayle to the accon aforesaid
                  On wch said third day of Aprill came the said Thomas Cooke
                into open Court with John Woodward of Dorchestr County his
                Surety who undertooke for the said Thomas Cooke in the said sume
                of Twenty two pounds Six shillings and tenn pence Sterling and
                also for the Costs in this Cause by this Court to be taxed to be
                Leavyed of and upon his Lands and tennements goods and Chatties