342       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

    Liber W. C.  Said Charles Quigley with force and Armes into the houses lands
                 and premisses with the appurtenances aforesaid wch the said Peter
                 ffrancis and James to the said Stephen in forme aforesaid Demised
                 for the terme aforesaid wch is not yet past Entered and him from the
                 posession thereof did Eject and other harmes to him did to the
                 great Damage of the said stephen and in Retardation of the Execu
                 tion of the will aforesaid and against his Lordspps peace, And where
                 upon the said Stephen Sayth he is Damnifyed and hath Losse to
                 the Vallue of ffifty thousand pounds of Tobacco And thereupon he
                 bringeth his suite
                 January the 6th 1682
                   Unlesse the Tennant in Posession or he or they undr whome he
                 Claymes Doe appeare at the next Provinciall Court at the Citty of
         p. 676  st Maryes and accept of a Declaracon And make him or themselves
                 partyes thereunto, and confess Lease Entry and Ejectmt Judg
                 ment will be Confessed by the Deft Charles. and posession Delivered
                 accordingly
                 To Thomas Marshall Tennant
                 in posession of the premisses
                   Now here at this day (to wit) 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: Came the said Plt
                 by his Attorney aforesaid and Offered himself against the said
                 Deft in the plea aforesaid but the said Deft Came not but made
                 Default and the said Plantiffe by his Attorney aforesaid produced
                 to the Court here the Deposition following viz
                   James Bodkin gentt maketh oath that upon or about the tenth
                 day of January last past he this Deponent was by and present and
                 see Charles Quigley the Deft and Casuall Ejector in this Cause
                 Deliver unto Thomas Marshall Tennant in posession of the Lands
                 houses & Mill houses and premisses in question a Coppy of a Declara
                 con in Ejectment at the said Land called the Mill Dam at the head of
                 Wiccocomoco in Charles County, wch Declaracon was undr the hand
                 of William Cocks Clerke of the Provinciall Court, and at the bottome
                 of it was directed to the said Thomas Marshall Tennant in Poses
                 sion of the premisses and Signifyed that unless the said Marshall
                 or they under whome he Claymed should the then next Provinciall
                 Court apeare to the Said Declaration and Confess Lease Entry and
                 Ejectment and insist onely upon the title, The Deft would confesse
                 Judgment and posession would be delivered to the Plantiffe or to
                 that effect, and the said Marshall looking upon the same sayd he
                 would Answere it or to that effect
                 James BodkineSworne the 27th day of March
                           Anno Doni 1683: Before me
                                                William tevens

                   Itt is therefore considered by the Court here that the said Stephen