420       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

        Liber W. C.     County If he should be found in his Baliwick and him safely keepe
                 soe that he should have his body here the seaven and Twentyeth
                 day of March in the Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right
                 Honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annocp Doni 1683 to answere
                 unto John Richardson in a Plea that he render unto him the sume
                 of Two thousand pounds of tobacco wch to him he oweth and
                 unjustly detaineth
                  On wch said Seaven and twentyeth day of March aforesaid
                 William Smithson gentl sheriffe of the County aforesaid made
                 returne of the writ aforesaid that by vertue thereof he hath taken
                 the said John Hungerford whose body he hath here ready as by the
                 same writ he was comanded, And the said John Hungerford came
                 then by Robert Carvile his Attorney and defendeth the force and
                 injury when &c. and prayeth liberty to Imparle hereunto untill next
                 Provinciall Court and it is granted unto him And the same day
                 is given to the plt likewise
                  Now here at this day (to wit) the third day of July in the Eighth
                 yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord Baltemore
                 &c Annoq Doni One thousand six hundred eighty three Came the
                 said partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid. but the said John Richard
                 son ref useth to make any farther prosecution against the said John
                 Hungerford in the plea aforesaid, Nor hath he filed his declaracon
                 in this suite according to the rule of this Court in that Case made &
                 Provided
                  Itt is therefore Considered by the Court here that the said John
                 Richardson take nothing by his writ aforesaid but be in mercy
                 for his false Clayme therein and that the said John Hungerford
                 may goe thereof wthout day and that the said John Hungerford
                 recover against the said Jno Richardson the Sume of One thousand
                 three hundred thirty seaven pounds of tobacco for his Costs and
                 Charges by him about his defence in this behalfe Laid out and
                 expended And the said John Hungerford may have thereof Exe
                 cution


                John Richardson 1 Comand was given to the sheriffe of Dorchester
                     agt County that he take John Hungerford of the
              John Hungerford j   County of Dorchester otherwise Called Jno Hun
                             gerford of Little Chaptanke in Dorchester
                 County (If he should be found in his Baliwick and him safe Keepe
                 soe that he should have his body here the seaven and twentyeth day
                 of March in the Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble
                 Charles Lord Baltemore &c. Annoq Doni 1683 to answere unto
                 John Richardson of a plea that he render unto him the sume of
                 Two thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco wch to him he oweth
                 & unjustly detaineth
                  On wch said seaven and Twentyeth day of March in the yeare afore