Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.     377

    sheriffe of St Maryes County that he cause to come here Twelve           Liber W. C.
    good and Lawfull men of his baliwick well and truly to try what
    damages the said PIt hath sustained by Occasion of the prcmisses
    aforesaid, And thereupon came a Jury of twelve good and Lawfull
    men by the said sheriffe for that purpose sumoned and Impannelled
    Who being elected tryed & sworne to say the truth in the premisses
    Upon their Oathes doe say, That the sd Plt hath Sustained damages
    for the price and use of the Negroes the quantity of Tenn thousand
    pounds of tobacco, Wch verdict of the Jurors aforesaid being read
    and heard the Defts by their Attorney aforesaid moved in arrest
    of Judgment & prayed Day untill the next Provinciall Court to
    assigne their reasons therein And it was granted by the Court here
    And the same day was given to the Pits likewise
      Now here at this day (to wit) the Eight and twentyeth day of
    June in the yeare aforesaid came the said plt by his Attorney
    aforesaid and offered himself against the said defts in the plea
    aforesaid, but the said defts to assigne their reasons to arrest Judg
    ment upon the verdict of the Jurors aforesaid came not. It is there
    fore considered by the Court here that the said William Digges
    Admr as aforesaid Recover against the said William Dixon and
    Elizabeth his wife William Sharpe & Thomas Taylor Executors as
    aforesaid Aswell the aforesaid Sume of Tenn thousand pounds
    of Tobacco Damages by the Jurors aforesaid in forme aforesaid
    assessed, as also the Sume of pounds of tobacco
    for costs of suite, And the said Defendants in mercy &c.


   John Parsons 1 Alexander Dennett of Dorchester County Mar
        agt riner was sumoned to answere unto John Par
  Alexandr Dennett j    sons of a plea that he render unto him his reason
                 able account of the time he was the receiver of
    the servants goods & tobacco of him the sd John Parsons, & wch
    to him to render he ought
      And Whereupon the said John Parsons by Robert Carvile his              p. 706
    Attorney Complaineth that Whereas the said Alexander Dennett
    being Master of the good shipp called the Dolphin of Poole in the
    Kingdome of England, And being upon the tenth day of ffebruary
    in the yeare of our Lord 168o bound with the said shipp to this
    Province Hee the said Alexander did appeare receiver of the serv
    ants and goods of the Said John Parsons, And the same day at
    Poole aforesaid had and received of the servants and goods of
    the said John by the hands of the said John three Servants (to wit)
    Two men servants and named Henry Rowland & Edward Rowland.
    and one woman servant named ifrances Clare with bedding and
    cloathes to the said servants belonging All of the vallue of Tenn
    thousand ffive hundred pounds of tobacco, To render an account
    of the said servants and goods to the said John at the arrivall of