6         Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

  Liber W. C.     him the said William although often thereunto required according
                  to his promise hath not paid but the same to pay hath denyed & as
                  yet doth denye to the Damage of the said William Three thousand
                  pounds of Tobacco, and thereupon he bringeth his suite
                   And the said Vincent Lowe by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
                  Cometh & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth
                  liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is
                  granted unto him the same day is given to the plt also
                   Now here at this day to wit the Twenty eighth day of Aprill in the
                  sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles Lord
                  Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj 1681 Came the said William Jones by
                  his Attorney aforesaid and Offered himself against the said Vincent
                  Lowe in the plea aforesaid but the said Vincent came not but made
                  Default, therefore Itt is Considered that the said William Jones Re
                  cover against the said Vincent Lowe Aswell the aforesaid sume of
                  Two thousand pounds of Tobacco debt as also the sume of ffive
                  hundred Twenty and Two pounds of Tobacco Costs of suite, and the
                  Deft in mercy &c


                  John Beaman  John Bird and Elizabeth his wife Exx of
                     agt the last Will and Testament of Henry
                  Jno Bird & Eliza his wife Lewis Late of Ann Arrundll County Chi
                  Exix Henry Lewis rurgion deceased were attached to Answere
                                  unto John Beamon of a plea of Trespas
                                  upon the case.
                   And Whereupon the said John Beamon by Robert Ridgely his
                  Attorney Complaineth That Whereas one Certaine Thomas Beech
                  of the County of of Ann Arrundell aforesaid stood indebted to the
                  said John Beamon by Judgment in the County Court of Ann Arrundll
                  County aforesaid for a Certaine Debt amounting to six hundred and
          p. 390  sixteene Pounds pounds of Tobacco, wch wth costs of suite amounted
                  to in the whole the sume of one Thousand twenty foure pounds of
                  Tobacco, and for the same the said John Beamon the five and twenty
                  eth day of November in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six
                  hundred seaventy eight did sue forth of the said County Court a
                  certaine writ of Capias ad satisfaciendum to the sheriffe of Ann
                  Arrundl County directed against the body of the said Thomas Beech,
                  by vertue whereof Edmond Betenson gentt undersheriffe of the
                  same County undr John Welsh gentt high sheriffe of the same County
                  the body of the said Thomas Beech the third day of December in the
                  yeare aforesaid in the County aforesaid in Execucon for the same
                  One thousand Twenty foure pounds of Tobacco did take and arrest,
                  and him the said Thomas for the debt and Costs aforesaid in his
                  Custody had and kept, whereupon the said Henry Lewis in the
                  life time of the said Henry (to wit the same third day of December
                  in the yeare aforesaid) at Broad Neck in the County aforesd in