Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.     455

           To his Lopps Justices of the Provinciall Court  Liber W. C.
              The humble peticon of John Hough:
    Most humbly sheweth
      Unto your Honors that your peticoner hath served his due accus
    tomed time of servitude as may appeare by an Indenture bearing
    date the sixth day of May 1679 unto Mr Marke Cordea, And the
    said Marke Cordea refuses to discharge him and aileadges that your
    peticoner was absent out of his Service the space of fifteen dayes
    wch your peticoner was constrained to by reason of his hard Servi
    tude then under the command of James Lewis late of this Province
    Otherwise your peticoner was in danger of his life what for want
    of flood and badd usage. Therefore your peticoner humbly prayes
    Your Honor will take it into consideration & grant him redress in
    this his very great extremity And yor Peticoner as in duty bound
    shall Ever pray:
    July ye 2d 1683
      The aforegoeing Marke Cordea after the reading of the above
    peticon being prsent in Court made Oath that the above named
    John Hough in the time of his Servitude, with him the said Marke
    rann away and absented himself from ye service of ye said Marke
    One & twenty dayes Whereupon itt is by the Court ordered that the
    said John Hough serve the said Marke for ye said one and twenty
    dayes runing away Two hundred & Tenn dayes According to an
    Act of Assembly in that case made

      Henry Mitchell of Calvert County being Sumoned to serve upon p. 764
    the grand Jury and not appearing when Called is ifyned unto his
    Lordspp the Lord Propry the sume of ffive hundred pounds of
    tobacco according to an act of Assembly in that Case made and
    provided:

      Samuel Hatton of Talbott County appearing not upon the grand
    Jury when called though Sumoned by the sheriffe of the same
    County is fyned unto his Lopp the Lord Proprietary the sume of
    ffive hundred pounds of tobacco acconding to an act of Assembly
    in that Case made and provided

    June ye 26th 1683
      Itt is Ordered by the Court that every the Attorneys of this
    Court that are to appeare for any defendant in any Cause in this
    Court depending or hereafter to be depending Enter their appeare
    ance for such defendant with the Clerke of this Count before the
    sitting of the Court the Second day of every Court And that every
    Attorney of this Court that refuses to enter their appeareance as
    aforesaid shall for his default therein pay unto his Lopp the Lord
    Propnietarij for a fyne the sume of One thousand pounds of to-