82        Provincial Court Proceedings, ro8i.

 Liber W. C.     of one Man servant Named Ffrancis Browne as the proper servant
                 of her the said Mary to serve her the said Mary for such Terme
                 of yeares as is usuall and accustomeable by the Lawes of this
                 province for servants Transported into this Province without In
                 dentures to serve of the vallue of Three thousand five hundred
                 pounds of Tobacco, and soe being thereof posessed the said Man
                 servant of her the said Mary as aforesaid she the said Mary
                 Afterwards to wit the Tenth day of Aprill aforesaid out of her
         p. 464  posession & service did Casually loose Wch said Servant After
                 wards to wit the Eleaventh day of Aprill aforesaid att Bushwood
                 in the said County of st Maryes to the hands and posession of
                 the said Gerrard Slye by finding came, Notwithstanding the said
                 Gerrard Knowing the said servant to be the proper servant of
                 her the said Mary & of right to appertaine and belong, & Mean
                 ing and intending her the said Mary in this behalfe to Deceive
                 and Defraude, The said Man servant as aforesaid to her the said
                 Mary in her life time Nor to the said Owen since her Death to
                 whome Administracon of all and singuler the goods and Chattles of
                 the said Mary are in Due forme of Lawe Legally Comitted & are
                 here in Court Ready to be produced Though often thereunto re
                 quested hath not Delivered but the said Man servant afterwards that
                 Is to say the Twelfth day of Aprill aforesaid to the use and Comodity
                 of him the said Gerrard at Bushwood in st Maryes County afore
                 said then and there disposed and Converted Whereupon the said
                 Owen sayth hee is Damnified & hath Losse to the Vallue of Eight
                 Thousand pounds of Tobacco, & thereupon he bringeth. his suite
                  And the said Gerrard Slye by Robert Ridgely his Attorney cometh
                 & defendeth the force and Injury when &c and prayeth Liberty to
                 Imparle hereunto untill the next provinciall Court and It is granted
                 unto him the same Day is given to the plantiffe likewise
                  Att wch said next provinciall Court came the said partyes by their
                 Attorneys aforesaid, and the said Gerrard Slye by his said Attorney
                 sayth that bee is in noe wise guilty of the premisses above imposed
                 upon him In manner and forme as the said Owen in his Declaracon
                 hath Complained and of this he puts himself upon the Country, and
                 the plaintiffe also, It is therefore Comanded the sheriffe of st Maryes
                 County that hee Cawse to Come here Twelve &ca by whome &c &
                 who Neither &c to Recognize &c becawse aswell &c
                  And Now here at this day (to wit) the Nineteenth day of Novem
                 ber in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles
                 Lord Baltemore &c Anncxp Doni 1681 Came the said partyes by
                 their Attorneys aforesaid & the Jurors Impannelled being Called Like
                 wise came (to wit) Philip Lynes Anthony Dawson, John Richard
                 son, William Hill, John Evans, Wm Stevens, Wm Mishew, Rhoderick
                 lLoyd, Richard Edelen, Henry Exon, John Paler & Solomon Day
                 Who being elected trye and sworne to say the Truth in the premisses