360       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

        Liber W. C.     have her just due & right without any trouble in the Lawe being
                 poore and in a Meane Condition
                       And yor peticoner as in duty bound shall every pray &ca
                 Underneath the aforegoing peticon was this written Viz
                    By the Lord Propry & Councill
                 March 28th 1683
                  This peticon is mecomended to the consideration of the Justices
                 of the Provinciall Court now in Court sitting who are desired to
                 take such order for the releife of the Peticoner as to them shall
                 seeme Meet and according to Law:
                                  Signed p ordr p John ILewellin Count
                  Which being read heard and understood, Coll William Digges
                 one of ye Justices of this Court now present in Court is by the
                 Justices here desired to call before him the said Justinian Tennison
                 and Absolon Tennison and to Cause them to give good Security
                 for their good abbearance and appeareance here at the next Provin
                 tiall Court to answere the Complaint of their Mother the Petr


         To the honoble his Lopps Justices of the Provinciall Court in
                            Court sitting
                 The humble peticon of Mary Harding servt to Mrs Martha Ridgely
                 Sheweth
                  That yor honors poore peticoner being afflicted with Sickness:
             p. 692     On sunday last one Anthony Anthony Underwood late Servant to the
                 said Mrs Ridgely dwelling in the house Came to your Peticoner and
                 pretending himself Master of the house beat and abused your peti
                 toner Very unreasonably Causeing your peticoner to be tyd and
                 himself cut of all the Cloths of from your Peticoners body and
                 whipt her not onely al the said house but also at the house of
                 Daniel Clocker and from thence home to her said Mrs's house the
                 markes whereof still remaine upon your Peticoners body
                       Your Honors Peticoner therefore humbly prayes such
                       redress in the promisses as to yor honors shall seem meet
                  And your Honors poor peticonr as in duty bound shall ever pray
                 &ca Wch Peticon being read and heard It is ordered by the Court
                 here this day (to wit) the Eight and twentyeth day of March in
                 the Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles
                 Lord Baltemore &c. Annop Doni 1683 That the Peticoner returne
                 to her servitude and that her Mrs Martha Ridgely forbeare to give
                 her any any correction for her comeing to make her aforesaid
                 Complaint


                 Mr Robert Carvile
                  Haveing made Mr John West of Somersett County my Attorney
                 in the business relateing to Randall Revell I order you that if
                 Mr West acknowledge the receipt of the intire sume of ffoure