Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683. 339

      Jane Calvert Admrx of                                              Liber W. C.
                     The deft by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attor
      Philip Calvert Esq
       a  ney appeares & Imparles until the next
       g  Provinciall Court
      Michael Miller

      William Dorrington Comand was given to the sheriffe of Dor
        agt chester County that he take John Pope other-
      John Popewise Called John Pope of Little Chaptanke
      If he should be found in his Baliwick & him
      Safe keepe soe that he should have his body here the seaven and
      twenty day of March in the Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the
      Right honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &ca Annoq Doni 1683 to
      answere unto William Dorrington of a plea that he Render unto
      him One Man Servant wth to him he oweth and unjustly Detaineth:
        On wch said seaven and twentyeth day of March William Smith
      son sheriffe of the County aforesaid made returne of the writ
      aforesaid That the said John Pope doth Abscond himself Where
      upon this day (to wit) the thirtyeth day of March in the yeare
      aforesaid came the said William Dorrington by Robert Carvile
      his Attorney and prayed an Attachment against the goods Chattles
      and debts of the said John Pope according to an Act of Assembly
      in that Case made and provided, and it is granted unto him by the
      Court here:

     John Richardson The sheriffe of Cecill County haveing returned a
          agt Cepi in this Cause and not haveing the body of
   William Trego:    the deft here in Court The same sheriffe in open
                 Court assigned over to the plt the bayle bond by
      him taken for the appeareance of the said deft here this Court to
      answere to the said plt in this Cause. And it was accepted of by
      Griffith Jones the plts Attorney:

      John Richardson
          a      Unlesse the Def appeare next Court Wm smithson
          g sheriffe of the County of Dorchester Amerced:
      William Trego
      John Richardson
          agt
                   The deft appeares by Robert Carvi!e his At-
      John Hungerford             .
                   torney and Imparles until the next Provinciall
   The Same
                  Court
        ag
      The same
      Edward LLoyd          March ye 30th 1683:
          agt
      Nicholas Painter & Judith     Then came into open Court if rancis
      his wife Admrix ofMaldin of Calvert County and ac
      William Parker. Decd     knowledged himself to be Surety for