456        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

     Liber W. C. bacco to be Leavyed of his Goods & Chattles Lands & Tenements to
                 his said Lopps use.

                  Nicholas Hackett of Talbott County and Edward Cooke of Dor
                 chester County being sumoned to serve upon the grand Jury and
                 not appeareing when Called was each of them ifyned ffive hun
                 dred pounds of tobacco to be leavyed of their goods and Chattles
                 Lands and Tenements to his said Loppes use.

                 Eod Die
                  John Charles of st Maries County came into Court and humbly
                 prayed to be admitted to sue in fforma pauperis Mr Marke Cordea
                 of ye same County. And the said John makeing Oath in Court that
                 he is not in all ye world worth ffive pounds Sterling according to
                 the fforme of the Statute &c. The Said John Charles is by the Court
                 here admitted in forma paupores & Thomas Burford and Kenelm
                 Cheseldyn gentl Attorneys of this Court are by the Court here
                 Assigned him for Councill

                 Eod Die:
                  William Smithson gentl sheriffe of Dorchestr County haveing
                 returned Cepi corpus in a Cause here depending betweene John
                 Richardson plt and John Alford deft: and the said John Alford
                 being at st Maries and the said Wm Smithson refuseing to bring
                 him into Court (The said John Richardson demanding Speciall
                 bayle.) And it being proved by the oathes of Edward Sweatnam
                 and Elias King that the said William Smithson was seaverall times
                 in Company wth the said John Alford at st Maries aforesaid, And
                 the said Smithson when he was Demanded to bring hither the body
                 of the said John Hungerford giveing ill language to this Court.
                 Is comitted into the custody of the sheriffe of st Maries County for
                 his abuses aforementioned untill farther order from this Court
                  Afterwards to wit the Eight and twentyeth day of June in the
                 Yeare aforesd the said William Smithson being brought into Court
                 by the sheriffe of st Maries County Security is demanded of him
                 for his good abearance & appeareance the the next Provinciall Court
                  Whereupon Came into Court the said William Smithson with
                 Thomas Pattison and Jacob Lockerman of St Maries County his
          p. 765 suretyes And the said William Smithson acknowledged himself
                 to owe and stand justly indebted unto his Lopp the Lord Propry
                 in the sume of Twenty pounds Sterling The said Thomas Pattison
                 in the sume of Tenn pounds Stert: and the said Jacob Lockerman
                 in the sume of tenn pounds Sterling to be Leavyed of their goods
                 and Chattles Lands and Tenements Lands & Tenements to his said
                 Lopps use, If the said William Smithson shall not come and make
                 his personall appeareance at the next Prov” Court And in the meane