Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.     63

     Margaret stagg als Gittings the sume in the writ mencOned & hath            Liber W. C.
     the same in his custody as by the said writ Directed

     Emanuel Ratliffe Comand was given to the sheriffe of st Maryes               p. 444
        agt County that he take Thomas Abington If he
   Thomas Abington  should be found in his baliwick and him safe
                  Keepe soc that he have his body here the fourth
     day of October in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right
     honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1681 To answer
     unto Emanuel Ratliffe in a plea of Trespasse of the Case
       On wch said ffourth day of October Major William Boareman
     Sheriffe of the County aforesaid made returne of the writ aforesaid
     That the said Thomas Abington is not to be found within his bali-
     wick Whereupon the said Emanuel Ratliffe by Kenelm Cheseldyn
     his Attorney prayed an attachment against the goods Chattles and
     debts of the said Thomas Abington according to act of Assembly
     in that Case made and provided & Itt is granted by the Court here

     Henry stockett & James
             rs           The Deft by Nehemiah Blakiston
     stavely Adm Thomas Salmon
           a  his Attorney appeares & Imparles
                          untili next Provinciall Court
     John Willis Ex Wm Salisbury

     Ralph Shawe
         agt in Ejectmt Michael Ashfirth & Rachell his wife Lessofl
     Philip Lines
                And in the same Cawse itt was Ordered by the
     Consent of Thomas Burford Attorney for the plt & Robert Carvile
     Attorney for Philip Lynes that the said Philip Lynes should bee
     Admitted Deft, & that he forthwith appeare and receive a Declaracon
     and plead to it the Generall issue & at the tryall to be thereupon
     had the said Philip Lynes shall appeare in his proper pson or by his
     Attorney and shall Confesse Lease Entry and Ejectment or that in
     default thereof Judgment shall be entred against the Deft John
     Clarke the Casuall Ejector, but all further prosecucon against him
     shall cease untill the said Philip Lynes shall make default in any of
     the premisses, And Itt is further Ordered by the Court by the Con
     sent aforesaid that the said Philip Lynes shall not take any advantage
     against the plt for not psecuteing upon the tryall occasioned by such
     default, but that the said Philip Lynes shall pay to the plt the Costs
     by this Court to be taxed in this Cause, and it is further Ordered
     that the Lessor to the plt shall be Charged with the payment of the
     Costs to the Deft if any be adjudged to him.

     John Shrigley
         agt in Ejectmt Richard Wells & Mary his wife daughter
     J ohn Sallers and heire of Thomas Martin decd Lessors