Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683. 391

     forty foure pounds of tobacco wch to the said John in the same          Liber W. C.
     Court was adjudged for his damages wch he sustained by occasion
     of a Certaine Trespass of the Case by the said Joseph against the
     said John done and comitted, and whereof the said Joseph was
     convicted as by the record and process of the said Judgment in the
     same Court of the said Lord Propry here remaining manifestly
     appeares Upon wch sd Judgment the said John for the sooner have
     ing and obtaining of his damages aforesaid Then afterwards (that
     is to say) the seaventh day of March in the yeare aforesaid did
     prosecute out of the said Court of the Lord Propry a Certaine writ
     of the Lord Propry of Capias ad satisfaciendum against the said
     Joseph to the said Edward then and yet sheriffe of Cecill County
     aforesaid directed, By wch said writ the said Lord Propry did
     comand the said Edward then and now being sheriffe of the County
     aforesaid that he should take the said Joseph (If he should be
     found within his ba!iwick) and him safely keepe soe that he should
     have his body before the Justices of the said Lord Propry at the then
     next Provinciall Court to be held on the second day of May then
     next following at the said Citty of St Maries to satisfy the said
     John the damages aforesaid Whereof the said Joseph was convict
     Wch said writ to the said Edward then and yet sheriffe of the
     County of Cecill aforesd directed The said John afterwards and
     before the returne of the same writ (that is to say) the seaventh        p. 716
     day of March 1681 in Cecill County aforesaid did deliver unto
     the said Edwd then and yett sheriffe of the County aforesaid in
     forme of Law to be executed, By vertue of wch said writ the said
     Edward then and yet sheriffe of the County aforesaid That is to
     Say) the five and twentyeth day of Aprill 1682 in Cecill County
     aforesaid the said Joseph did take and arrest and him the said
     Joseph in execution for the damages aforesaid then and there had,
     And the said Joseph soe in Custody of the said sheriffe of the
     County aforesaid in execution as aforesaid for the damages afore
     said in forme aforesaid being, the said Edward afterwards that is
     to say the six and twentyeth day of Aprill 1682 being then Sheriffe
     of Cecill County aforesaid the said Joseph at Cecill County afore
     said Out of his custody to goe at large where he the said Joseph
     pleased did (without the consent of the said John) freely pmit
     and Suffer, Hee the said John of his damages aforesaid not being
     any waies Satisfyed, By reason whereof accon did accrue to the
     said John to have of the said Edward the said sume of Seaven
     thousand two hundred forty foure pounds of tobacco, Neverthelesse
     the said Edward Although often required the same to the said John
     hath not rendered but hath hitherto refused and doth still refuse
     To the damage of the said John ffourteene thousand pounds of
     Tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his suite
      And the said Edward Inglish by Griffith Jones his Attorney