94        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

        Liber W. C. 1679 in a suite depending betweene John Bearcroft plantiffe & Jane
                Williams Administratrix of the goods and Chattles of William Wil
                liams decd deft the said plt Recovered Judgment against the said
                Deft for Foure thousand Two hundred eighty six pounds of Tobacco
                debt and ffive hundred twenty eight pounds of Tobacco costs of
                suite, and for that Execution hath not thereupon issued It was
                therefore comanded the said Sheriffe that by good and Lawfull men
                of his baliwick he should make Knowne to the said Jane Williams
                that she should be and appeare before the Justices of the provin
                ciall Court to be held here the Six & Twentyeth day of Aprill in
                the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj 1681 To shew cause (If any She
                have) Why Execucon should not issue forth against her upon the
                said Judgment, On wch said six & Twentyeth day of Aprill afore
                said Major William Boareman sheriffe of the County aforesaid
                made Returne of the writ aforesaid) that he hath made knowne
                unto The said Jane Williams before William Hatton & William
                Cannady as by the said writ he was Comanded
                  And the said Jane Williams Admx as aforesaid by Robert Ridgely
                her [Attorney] cometh and Defendeth the force and Injury when
           p. 477   &c and prayeth liberty to Imparle hereunto untill next provinciall
                Court and it is granted unto her the same day is given to the plan
                tiffe Likewise
                  Now here at this day to wit the Nineteenth day of November in
                the yeare aforesaid Came the said John Bearcroft by his Attorney
                aforesaid and offered himself against the said Jane Williams Admx
                as aforesaid Upon the scire facias aforesaid, but the said Jane Came
                not but made Default. Therefore It is Considered that the said John
                Bearcroft Recover against the said Jane Williams Admx as afore
                said aswell the aforesaid sume of ffoure thousand Two hundred
                eighty six pounds of Tobacco debt & ffive hundred Twenty eight
                pounds of Tobacco costs of suite in the Scire facias aforesaid men
                tioned, as also the Sume of ffive hundred and forty pounds of Tobacco
                costs of Suite Sythence Layd out and Expended, and the said John
                Bearcroft may have thereof execution:

                William Digges Esqr James Mills late of Baltemore County other
                  agt wise called James Mills was attached to
                James Millsanswere unto the Honoble William Digges Esqr
                one of the Justices of the said Court accord
                ing the Libertyes and prviledges allowed &c of a plea that he Render
                unto him the full and just quantity of Two thousand seaven hundred
                ffifty five pounds of Marchantable Tobacco and Caske wch to him he
                oweth and unjustly Detaineth
                  And Whereupon the said William Digges by Robert Ridgely his