Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.     93

     plained, and of this hee puts himself upon the Court & the plan-          Liber W.C.
     tiffe also
       And hereupon the Declaracon and plea aforesaid being read and
     heard and by the Justices here fully undrstood and Dilligently ex
     amined it seemeth to the same Justices that the said Hugh Hartshorne
     hath fully satisfyed and payd the said John Peirce the Chirugion in
     his life time for the cures aforesaid in the Declaracon aforesaid
     mentioned according to the promise assumption and agreement of
     the said Hugh with the same John Peirce Therefore it is Consid
     ered that the said John Peirce Executor of the said John Peirce
     decd take Nothing by his writ aforesaid but be in mercy for his false
     claime thereon and that the said Hugh Hartshorne goe from thence
     without Day

     James     Walkden Comand was given to the sheriffe of Talbot
          agt County that he take Thomas Erington late of
     Thomas Errington Talbot County if he should be found in his
                   baliwick and him safe keepe that hee h2ve
     his body here the ffourth day of october in the sixth yeare of the
     Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &ca Annop
     Doni. 1681 To answere unto James Walkden in a plea of Trespasse
     of the case On wch said ffourth day of October in the yeare aforesaid
     Thomas Vaughan Sheriffe Of the County aforesaid made returne              p. 476
     of the writ aforesaid that by vertue thereof hee had taken the said
     Thomas Errington whose body he had Ready at the time and place
     as by the said writ he was Comanded, and the said Thomas Erring-
     ton by Robert Carvile his Attorney Came then and prayed Liberty
     to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted
     unto him, The same Day is given to the plantiffe also
       Now here at this day to wit the sixteenth day of November in
     the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
     Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1681 Came the said partyes by their At
     torneys aforesaid, and the said James Walkden by his said Attorney
     refuseth to make any farther prosecucon against the said Thomas
     Errington in the plea aforesaid, Therefore It is Considered that the
     said James Walkden take nothing by his writ aforesaid but be in
     mercy for his false Claime thereupon, and that the said Thomas
     Errington goe thereof without Day, and that The said Thomas
     Errington Recover against the said James Walkden the sume of
     Eight hundred Fifty & five pounds of tobacco for his Costs and
     Charges by him about his Defence in this behalfe Laid out and
     expended, and the said Thomas Errington may have thereof Exe
     cucOn &c:

     John Bearcroft   Comand was given to the sheriffe of
          agt st Maryes County That Whereas at a
     Jane Williams Admx of Provinciall Court held at the Citty of
     William Williams decd St Maryes before the Justices of the said
                      Court the sixth day of June Anno Dominj