348        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

     Liber W. C. of forty pounds Sterling money of England And thereupon he
                 brings his suite
                   And the said Samuel Tovey by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                 cometh & defendeth the force and Injury when &c and Prayeth
                 Liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it
                 is granted unto him and the same day is given to the plantiffe
                 likewise
                   Now here at this day wit the third day of Aprill in the Eighth
                 yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles Lord Balte
                 more &c Annop Doni. 1683: Came the said partijes by their Attor
                 neys aforesaid And the Said Samuel Tovey by his said Attorney
                 saith that he the said Samuel did not Assume or to the sd Marma
                 duke make such promise in Manner and forme as the sd Marma
                 duke hath above imposed upon him And of this he putts himself
                 upon the Country. And the plt Likewise.
                   It is therefore comanded the Sheriffe of st Maries County that
                 he Cause to come here twelve &ca by whome &c and who neither &c.
                 To Recognize &c because aswell &c.
                   On wch said third day of Aprill in the yeare aforesaid came the
                 ptyes aforesaid by their Attorneys aforesaid and the Jurors Tm
                 pannelled being called likewise came (to wit) James Bowling,
                 Thomas Hussey, Tho: Pemberton, Emanuel Pitcher, Daniel Mur
                 phy, Thomas Tillett, John Yeomans, Daniel Clocker, John Tong,
                 Stephen Luffe, Thomas Stonestreet & John Bradsher, Who being
                 elected tryed and Sworne to Say the truth in the premisses Upon
                 their Oathes doe say that the said Samuel Tovey did Assume upon
                 himself and to the sd Marmaduke Bowdler make such promise as
                 the said Marmaduke Bowdier above against him hath declared, And
                 they assess the Damage of the said Marmaduke Bowdler to the sume
                 of Twenty Seaven pounds seaven shillings and foure pence sterling
                 Money of England It is therefore considered by the Court here
                 that the said Marmaduke Bowdler Recover against the said Samuel
                 Tovey aswell the aforesaid Sume of Twenty Seaven pounds Seaven
                 shillings and foure pence sterling money of England by the Jurors
                 aforesaid in forme aforesaid assessed as also the Sume of One
                 thousand and six pounds of Tobacco for costs of Suite, and the said
                 Defendant in mercy &c

                 John    Watkinson Thomas Collins late of Talbott County Planter
                     agt was attached to answere unto John Watkinson of
                 Thomas Collins the same County Planter of a Plea wherefore with
          p. 682 force and Armes into that Plantacon or Tract of
                 Land Called Marron Lyeing in the East side of Chesepeak bay
                 on the North side of a River in the said Bay called st Michaels
                 River in the County of Ta!bot next adjoyning to the Land formerly
                 taken up by Henry Morgan deed called Morgans Saint Michaels,