346       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

  Liber W. C. Richard Smith Junr The deft by Nicholas Painter his Attorney
                     agt appeares & imparles untill the next Provinciall
                 John Richardson Court


                 James Bowling Ordered that a Venditione Exponas issue for the
                    agt goods of the said Slye in the Custody of Joshua
              Gerrard Slye  Doyne gentt sheriffe of St Maries County by vertue
                            of a fieri facias at the suite of the said James
                 Bowling against the Estate of the said Gerrard Slye Issued out of
                 this Court


                 March ye 29th 1683:
                  Henry Smith of st Maryes County being one of the petty Jury
                 and not appearing when called is fyned according to an Act of
                 Assembly in that case made and Provided


                           To the Right honoble the Lord Propry &ca
                 Most humbly Sheweth
                  The humble peticon of Henry Smith of st Maries County Unto
                 yor Lopp: that yor petr the 27th instant was sumoned upon the
                 petty Jury and was necessitated about some urgent affaires to goe
                 out of towne the 28th instant at night & on the 29th instant returned
                 againe in the morning but happened to come after the Jury was
                 Called Whereupon yor peticoner (not then appeareing) was fyned
                 though he made his appearance and offered himself to serve before
                 the Jury went from the barr
                       Yor peticoner humbly supplicates yor Lopp to remit him
                       the fine and order the Clerke of the Provinciall Court
                       not to Enter it upon Record:
                            And as in duty bound he shall ever pray
                 Under the above peticon was thus written
                                   I Remit this fyne C: Baltemore

        p. 680 Henry Brent This accon being for twenty foure thousand
                    agt pounds of tobacco the plt by Robert Carvile his
              Thomas Vaughan Attorney moved for Speciall bayle wch was
                             granted by the Court here. And hereupon came
                 the said Thomas Vaughan Came into Court with James Sedgewick
                 his Surety came into Court and the Said James Acknowledged that
                 if the said Thomas Vaughan should be Cast in the accon and should
                 not pay and Satisfy the Condemnation thereupon or rendr himself
                 to the prisson of the sheriffe of st Maryes County that then he the
                 said James Sedgewick will satisfy & pay the same wch security was
                 accepted of by the pits Attorney