Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683. 411

     William Roswell his promise and assumption aforesaid not regarding       Liber W. C.
     and deviseing and fraudulently intending him the said Richard
     Reeves in this behalfe craftily and subtilly to Deceive and defraud
     the said sume of Eight thousand pounds of tobacco according to
     his promise and assumption aforesaid hath not paid although often
     thereunto required (to wit) the day and yeare aforesaid at New-
     town aforesaid, but the same to pay hath denyed & still doth denye
     Lu the damage of the said Richard Reeves sixteene thousand pounds

     of tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his suite
       And the said William Roswell by Thomas Burford his Attorney
     cometh and defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth
     liberty to imparle hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court & it is
     granted unto him And the same day is given to the plt likewise
       Now here at this day (to wit) the ffifth day of July in the Eighth
     yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord Baltemore
     &c. Annoq Doni 1683 Came the said Richard Reeves by his Attor
     ney aforesaid & offered himself against the sd William Roswell
     in the plea aforesaid but the said William Roswell Came not but
     made default Whereby the said Richard Reeves remaineth against
     the said William Roswell thereof wholly undefended, Itt is there
     fore Considered by the Court here that the said Richard Reeves
     recover against the said William Roswell aswell the aforesaid Sume
     of Eight thousand pounds of tobacco debt as also the sume of six
     hundred Eighty one pounds of tobacco for costs of suite And the
     said Defendant in mercy &c.


     James Mills Joshua Doyne Gentt sheriffe of the County of                 p. 730
      agt Maries was sumoned to answere unto James Mills
   Joshua Doyne     gent of a plea that he render unto him One Negroe
               Man named Matthew of the price of sixty pounds
     Sterling wch from him he unjustly detaines
       And Whereupon the said James Mills by Robert Carvile his
     Attorney Complaineth That Whereas ye said James Mills upon the
     one and thirtyeth day of October in the year of Our Lord 1682
     at the Citty of st Maries was possessed of One Negroe named
     Matthew of the price of Sixty pounds sterling as the proper servant
     of him ye said James. The said Joshua Doyne being sheriffe of the
     said County of st Maries did by Collour of his Office aforesaid
     upon the Said One & thirtyeth day of October aforesaid at st Maries
     Citty aforesaid Knowing the said Negroe to be the proper Negroe
     of him the said James and to him of right to belong, take and
     carry away the said Negroe, and Notwithstanding the said James
     afterwards that is to say upon the two and twentyeth day of
     November in the yeare of Our Lord 1682 at Newtowne in the said
     County was by the said James Mills requested to render and restore
     to the said James the said Negroe Yett Notwithstanding the said