MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS 521

the Cause Last was may Quash that Process and Order the Party to be Set at
Large and Vacate Such Judgment as af^d

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays your Excellency and Honours
Consideration of the whole premisses and that he may be relieved therein
According to Law and that if the Case be as represented, by your Petitioner
that the Sherriff of Annarundell County may be Directed to Sett your Peti-
tioner at Large

And Your Petitioner as in Duty Bound Shall pray etc

M Macnemara

MARYLAND ss. To His Excellency Charles Calvert Esq^r Governour of
Maryland and to his Lordships Honourable Council Sitting as a Court of
Appeals and Errors

The Humble Petition of Robert Gordon of the City of Annapolis in the
Province af^d Merchant
Humbly Sheweth

That Your Petitioner and a Certain William Rogers of the af^d City En-
tered into Bond with a Certain Thomas Cockey to a Certain Thomas Bord-
ley of the City af^d Dated the Twenty Seventh Day of May Seventeen hundred
and Twenty four in the Penal Sum of forteen hundred and forty Pounds
Sterling Conditioned for the Payment of the Sum of Seven hundred and
Twenty Pounds Sterling the Contents of a Sett of Bills of Exchange drawn
by Said Thomas Cockey on a Certain Jonathan Forward Merchant in Lon-
don that the Bills were protested and returned and the Bond put Suite
Against your Petitioner in the Provincial Court and on the i9^th Day of Oc-
tober 1725 the Said Thomas Bordley recovered Judgment there for the af^d
Penalty and Seven hundred and Sixty Nine Pounds of Tobacco Cost of Suite
from which Judgment your Petitioner According to the Directions of the
Act of Assembly prayed An Appeale to your Excellency and Honours in the
High Court of Appeals of this province, which was granted on giving good
Security and the Day thereafter Security was given and Approved of by the
Said Court. Thereafter the Transcript of the Judgments af^d was Sent up
to the Said Court of Appeals and Sundry Errors Assigned and the issue in
Law thereon made up and on the Second Day of June Last the Same Came
to be Argued before Your Excellency and Honours Sitting as a Court of
Appeals and Errors Whereupon you were pleased to Affirm the Judgment
of the Prov^l Court that on the Affirmance thereof Your Petitioner by his At-
torney in Court and in preference of the Said Thomas Bordley prayed an
Appeale from the Judgment of the Said Court of Appeals and Errors to his
Majesty in Council which was granted on giving good Security Afterw^ds on
the fourth Day of Said June your Petitioners Said Attorney brought into the
Said Court a Bond Entered into by your Said Petitioner together with