452       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

     Liber W. C. said thirtyeth day of June Whereof he was convict, As also the
                 sume of Two thousand ninety and two pounds of tobacco for Costs
                 of suite
                   On which said thirtyeth day of June in the yeare aforesaid Joshua
                 Doyne sheriffe of St Maries County aforesaid made returne of the
                 writt aforesaid in manner following Viz
                                    Satisfied:    Joshua Doyne sheriffe


                 Lancelott Talbott
                    agt      This accon is continued untill next Court.
                 Thomas Vaughan
                 John Peirce Exr of John
                 Peirce deceased
                      a           By consent of ye Attorneys for the plt
                      g . and Deft this Cause is continued till next
                 Edward Pye & Ann his
                           Provinciall Court:
                 wife Adx of Benjamin
                 Rozer Esqr decd.
                 Joseph Eaton
                     agt    This accon is continued untill next Court:
                 Richard Keene
                 June ye 5th 1683:
                   Then allowed to Edward Cooke of Dorchester County for him
                 self and his Man each Tenn dayes Comeing goeing and attendance
                 to testify for Raymond Stapleford plt against Thomas Cooke De
                 fendant at thirty pounds of tobacco p day in all six hundred pounds
                 of tobacco.

                   Whereas I have thought fitt to grant unto Major Nicholas Sewall
                 & Mr John Darnall a Comission to be Secretarijes of this my
                 Province of Maryland with all the proffits and perquisitts there-
                 unto belonging, And ffor as much as the seaverall Attorneys of the
                 Provinciall Court were formerly used to pay unto the Late Secre
                 tary deceased ffor their being Attorneys of ye same Court Twelve
                 hundred pounds of Tobacco p Annum, I doe hereby require you and
                 every of you to continue the said payment and to pay unto the present
                 Secretaryes that now are the same as heretofore you were accus
                 tomed to pay unto the said Secretary deceased, Itt being the ordr of
                 To the seaverall Attorneys
                                                  C: Baltemore
                 of the Provinciali Court
                           June ye 27th 1683:
                   The aforegoing writeing being read and heard the same was by
                 the Court here ordered to be recorded, And it is further ordered
                 by the Court that every of the Attonneys of this Court for their
                 being Attorneys here pay unto the Secretaryes for the time being
                 the sume of Twelve hundred pounds of tobacco p Annum And that