350       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

 Liber W. C.     Damnifyed and hath losse to the vallue Tenn thousand pounds of
                Tobacco And thereupon he brings his suite
         p. 684 Unless The Tennant in Posession or they undr whome he Claymes
                Doe at the next Provinciall Court to be held at the Citty of st Maries
                appeare to this Declaracon and make him or themselves Defts there-
                unto and by rule of Court confess Lease entry and Ejectment, and
                insist onely upon the title The Deft in this Declaration will con
                fess Judgment and posess ion will be Delivered accordingly to the
                Plantiffe.
               To Thomas Collins Tennant in Posession of the prmisses within
                  mentioned
                 And the said Thomas Collins by Thomas Burford his Attorney
                cometh and Defendeth the force and injury when &ca, And in
                the same Cause it was ordered by and with the consent of Robert
                Carvile Attorney for the plt and Thomas Burford Attorney for
                the deft. Collins that the said Thomas Collins should be admitted
                Deft and that he forthwith appeare and receive a Declaracon and
                plead to it the Generall issue, and at the tryall to be thereupon had
                the said Thomas Collins shall appeare in his proper person or by
                his Attorney & shall confess lease entry and Ejectment or that in
                defau!t thereof Judgment shall be entered against the Deft the
                Casuall Ejector Christopher Goodhand but all further prosecution
                against him shall cease unto the said Thomas Collins shall make
                default in any of the premisses And it is further ordered by the
                Court by the consent aforesaid that the said Thomas Collins shall
                not take advantage of the plt for not prosecuteing upon the Tryall
                occasioned by such default, but that the said Thomas Collins shall
                pay to the plt the Costs by this Court to be taxed in this Cawse,
                And it is further ordered that the Lessor to ye plt shall be Charged
                with the payment of the Costs to the Deft If any be adjudged to
                him, And thereupon this Cause is continued untill the next Pro
                vinciall Court
                 Att wch said next Provinciall Court (to wit) the thirtyeth day
                of Aprill in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble
                Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1681 came the said partyes
                by their Attorneys aforesaid, and this Cause standing at issue ready
                for tryall this present Court but because it appeareth to the Court
                here that the same is an accon of Ejectment and that it is comenced
                by the said John Watkinson as Lessee of Peter Sayer and ifrances
                his wife one of the daughters and Coeheires of Henry Morgan
                decd against Christopher Goodhand Casuall Ejector And the said
                Thomas Collins haveing named himself deft instead of the Casuall
                Ejector to try the title to one Messuage containing one hundred
                and thirty Acres of Land called Marron Lyeing on the East side
                of Chesepeake bay On the north side of a River in the said Bay
                called St Michaels River in the County of Talbot next adjoyning