8         Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

 Liber W. C.     Came the said pties by their Attorneys aforesaid, and the Jurors
                 impannelled being Called likewise Came (to wit), William Roswell,
                 Joseph Pile, William Langworth, Edward Cooke, John Rosse, John
                 Richardson, Henry Griffith, John Phillips, Samuel Millington, Philip
                 Lines, William Robson, and Griffith Jones, Who being Elected tryed
                 and sworne to say the truth in the premisses, and being Returned
                 into Court to give their Verdict upon the issue aforesaid, The plt
                 although solemnly Called appeared not Therefore itt is Considered
                 that the said John Beamon take nothing by his writ aforesaid but
                 be in Mercy for his false plaint thereupon, and that the said John and
                 Eliza goe thereof wthout Day. and the said John Bird and Elizabeth
                 his wife Recover against the said John Beamon the sume of Thirteene
                 Hundred forty and Two pounds of Tobacco for their Costs and
                 charges by them about their Defense in this beha!fe Laid out and
                 expended, and the said John and Elizabeth may have thereof Excucon

                Francis Maude Comand was given to the sheriffe of Charles County
                    agt That Whereas att a Provinciall Court held at the
              Ambrose Bailey  Citty of St Maryes before the Justices of the said
                           Court the Eleaventh day of Aprill Annoq Dominj
                 One thousand six hundred seaventy six in a suite then there depend
                 ing between ffrancis Maude plt & Ambrose Bailey of Charles County
                 Carpentr Deft, The said plt Recovered Judgment against the said
                 Deft for the sume of fourteen hundred pounds of Tobacco debt, and
                 one thousand forty and five pounds of Tobacco Costs of suite, and
                 f or that Execucon hath not thereupon Yet issued Itt was therefore
                 Comanded the said Sheriffe that by good and Lawfull men of his
                 Baliwick hee make Knowne to the sd Ambrose Bailey that hee bee and
                 appeare here on the three and twentyeth day of November in the fifth
                 yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord Baltemore
                 &ca Annoq Dominj 1680 to shew Cause if any hee have why Exe
                 cucon should not issue forth against him upon the said Judgment
                 and how hee should Execute that writt that hee then and there make
                 Knowne to the Justices of the said Court, On wch said three and
                 Twentyeth day of November in the yeare aforesaid William Chandler
                 gentl sheriffe of the County aforesaid made Returne of the writ
                 aforesaid That by good and Lawfull men of his Baliwick hee hath
                 made knowne to the said Ambrose Baily that hee bee and appeare at
                 the day and place in the same writt mentioned
                  And the said Ambrose Bailey by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
                 cometh & Defendeth the force and injury when &c and Prayeth Lib
                 erty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted
                 unto him, the same day is given to the plt Likewise
          p. 392 Now here att this day to witt 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 ffrancis