Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.     365

     two hundred thousand pounds of tobacco debt recovered against         Liber W. C.
     him as aforesaid (whereof he is convict) as also the aforesaid
     sume of ffive hundred and Twelve pounds of tobacco for costs of
     suite
       On wch day Mr Joshua Doyne Sheriffe of the County aforesaid
     made returne of the writ aforesaid that by vertue thereof he hath
     taken the said Thomas Vaughan Whose body he hath ready as by
     the same writ he is comanded, And hereupon the said Thomas
     Vaughan remained in the custody of the same sheriffe in Execution
     for the debt & costs aforesaid untill the second day of Aprill then
     next ensueing
       On wch second day of Aprill Thomas Burford Esqr Attorney
     Generall who for the sd Lord propry prosecuted. being present in
     Court did by ordr of his said Lordspp his Lord Propry informe the
     Court that his Lopp willed that the aforegoeing Judgment be
     quashed and sett aside for that his Lopp doth accept of the two
     Judgments wch he this day obtained against William Coursey and
     George Robins Suretyes for the said Thomas Vaughan for the debt
     aforesaid Whereupon the Judgment aforesaid is by the Court here
     Quashed and sett aside, and his Lopp Caused the said sheriffe of
     st Maryes County to suffer the said Thomas Vaughan to goe at
     large.


     Thomas Carvile The Jury haveing found for the Pit in this
          agt Cause the Sume of twenty thousand pounds
   William Chesheire     of tobacco damages and costs of suite, The
                   defendant by Anthony Undrwood his Attorney
     moved in Arrest of Judgment And prayed time untill next Pro
     vinciall Court to shew his reasons for the same And it is granted
     unto him and the same Day is given to the plt plt likewise.
     Francis Mason       Aprill the second 1683:
         agt In Ejectmt Came ffrancis Mason by Thomas
     William Dent Burford his Attorney and George Hodgeson of
                Charles County by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney,
     and in the same Cause it is ordered by the consent of the said
     partyes and their Attorneys that the said George Hodgeson should
     be admitted deft. And that he forthwith appeare and receive a
     Declaration and plead to it the Generall issue, and at the tryall to
     thereupon had the said George Hodgeson shall appeare by himself          p. 696
     or by his Attorney and shall confess lease Entry and Ejectment or
     that in default thereof Judgment shall be entered against the said
     deft William Dent the Casual ejector, but all farther prosecution
     against him shall cease untill the said George Hodgeson shall make
     default in any of the premisses, And it is further ordered by the
     Court by the Consent aforesaid that the said George Hodgeson