422       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

 Liber W. C.     by vertue thereof he hath Replevyed and delivered unto the said
                 Stephen Murty the servant Boy aforesaid And the said James Yore
                 came then by Anthony Underwood his Attorney and defended
                 the force and Injury when &c. and prayed Liberty to Imparle here
                 unto untill the next Provinciall Court And it is granted unto him
                 And the same day is given to the plt also
                  Now here att this day (to wit) the Twenty eighth day of June
                 in the Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles
                 Lord Baltemore &c. Annoq Doni. 1683 Came the partyes afore
                 said by their Attorneys aforesaid, But the said stephen Murty
                 refuseth to make any further prosecution against the said James
                 Yore in the plea aforesaid Nor hath he filed his Declaration in this
                 suite according to the rule of this Court in that Case made & pro—
                 vided Itt is therefore Considered by the Court here that the said
                 Stephen Murty take nothing by his writ aforesaid but be in mercy
                 for his false Clayme therein And that the said James Yore goe
                 thereof without day And that the said James Yore recover against
                 the said Stephen Murty his sume of One thousand Two hundred
                 forty and Six pounds of Tobacco for his Costs and charges by him
                 about his defence in this behalfe Laid out and Expended And the
                 said James Yore may have thereof Execution

                 Stephen Murty
                     agt   This accon abates the Defendant being Dead
                 Daniel Clocker

         p. 738 Richard Haughton William Thomas late of Charles County Planter
                     agt was attached to answere unto Richard Haugh
                William Thomas    ton gentl Of a plea of Trespas of the Case
                               And Whereupon the said Richard by Thomas
                 Burford his Attorney complaineth that Whereas the said Richard
                 the fourth day of August in the yeare of our Lord 1682 at Por
                 tobacco in Charles County aforesaid was posessed of certaine goods
                 & Chattles (that is to say) of one Runner and Tackle containeing
                 Twenty ffathoms of Rope of the vallue of Nine hundred pounds of
                 Tobacco, and one sprit saile Containeing forty Ells of Canvis of
                 the vallue of ifourteene hundred pounds of Tobacco, Amounting
                 in all to the sume of Two thousand three hundred pounds of To
                 bacco as of his proper Goods and Chattles, and being thereof Soe
                 posessed the said Goods & Chattles Out of his hands and posession
                 did Casually loose, Web said goods & Chattles afterwards that is to
                 say the first day of September in the yeare aforesaid at Portobacco in
                 Charles County aforesaid to the hands and posession of the said
                 William by finding came, Nevertheless the said William well Know
                 ing the goods & Chattles aforesaid to be proper goods and Chattles
                 of the said Richard & to him the said Richard of right to belong and