Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683. 359

     Verdict of the Jurors aforesaid, Itt is therefore Considered by the      Liber W. C.
     Court here that Judgment upon the Verdict of the Jurors aforesaid
     for the reason aforesaid be Stopped and Arrested, And that the said
     Thomas Collins goe thereof without Day & that the said Peter
     Sayer recover against the said Thomas Collins his Costs and Charges
     by him in this behalfe Laid out & expended,
                Sent from his Lopp & Councill                                 p. 691
                 To the Right Honoble Charles Absolute Lord and
     Eliza Tennison's
                 Propry of the Provinces of Maryland and Ava
        Peticon
                 ion Lord Baron of Baitemore
       The humble peticon of Elizabeth Tennison Widdow
     Most Humbly Sheweth
      That your Peticoner was the wife of John Tennison Senr Who
     in his life time was to allow yor Peticoner an yearly pencon for her
     Mainteinance by your Lopps order, Web was One thousand pounds
     of Tobacco Three barrells of Indian Corne and Three hundred
     pounds of Meat p Annum Whereof your Peticoner never had but
     ffive hundred pounds of Tobacco Three barrells of Come and the
     whole quantity of Meat being three yeares bannished from her said
     husband, Soe that there remaines Two thousand five hundred pounds
     of tobacco and six barrels of Corne, Your peticoner presumeth that
     her husbands Executors stand now indebted unto her for the Two
     thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco and the six barrells of
     Come wch has been often demanded by yor Peticoner from them
     but they refuse to pay the same unless your Peticoner will accept
     of the same yearly allowance as she had formerly and leave her
     thirds
      Now Soe it is may it please your Lopp That your Peticoners
     husband dyed in January last and by his last will made his two sonns
     Justinian and Absolon Tennison Joynt Exrs And gave what Estate
     he had unto them but nothing unto yor Peticoner but what she
     Could Recover by Lawe, soe they have gott the whole Estate into
     their hands, & forgetting their duty threaten to Keepe your Peti
     coner from her owne by Law, Who being poore and not of Ability
     to wage Law with them, And moreover they debarr yor peticoner
     from all priviledge whatsoever, And have since the death of yor
     petrs husband Confiscated great part of the Estate and refuse to
     give yor Petr any account thereof, and doe still Contrive all the
     wayes imaginable to defraud yor petr of what is her Just due, And
     they also say that they will hinder your Peticoner from haveing
     any thing this yeare in the spite of ffate soe that your Peticoner is
     likely to be brought to misery & poverty in this her old age if not
     releived by your Lopps tender pitty and Compassion
      Your Peticoner humbly prayes your Lopps order that she may