84 MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

hear the Said Errors, Hereof you may not faile Wittness ou[r] Selfe att An-
napolis in Annarundell County the n^th day of March in the Eleaventh Year
of our Reigne Annoque Dni 1698/7 [sic]

John Freeman Reg^r in Chancery.
W Bladen per Quer.

MARYLAND ss. In the Records of the Prov^ll Court amongst other things
therein it is thus Conteined.

William the third by the Grace of God of England Scottland France
and Ireland King Defender of the faith etc. [128] To the Sherriffe of Kent
County Greeting We Command you that You take John Salter late of Kent
County Inholder if he Shall be found in your Bayliwick and him Safe keep
So that You have his body before the Justices of our Prov^ll Court to be held
att our Porte of Annapolis the 2^d Tuesday in 9^ber Next to Answer unto Clem-
ent Sale of a plea That he render unto him the full and Just Summe of or
Quantity of thirteen thousand four hundred Seaventy one pounds of every
Way well Conditioned Tobbacco in Cask which to him he Oweth and from
him unjustly deteineth hereof faile not att your perill And have you there
this Writt Wittness Robert Smith Esq^r Chief Justice of our Said Court this
Tenth day of September in the tenth Year of (f Reigne Annoque Dni 1698

Chr Gregory Clk
Clement Sale

Which Writt was thus Endorsed Viz^t:

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John Salter

Copy Deci to go w^th
the writt.

Att which Said Second Tuesday in November (to witt) att a Prov^ll Court
begun and held att the Porte of Annapolis the 8^th day of November in the
Tenth Year of the reigne of King Willm the 3^d of England etc. before his
Matys Justices thereunto Authorized and Appointed (Viz^t)
The Hon^ble Robert Smith Esq^r President; Major John Hammond; Cap^t
Rich^d Hill; Cap^t Thomas Tasker; M^r Thomas Staley; M^r James Keetch;
Col^o John Thompson.

Came the Said Sherriffe of Kent County and made returne of his Said
Writt in these Words Viz^t Cepi per Edw Sweatnam Sherr

John Salter late of Kent County Inholder was Summoned to Answer
unto Clement Sale of a plea that he render unto him the full and Just Summe
or Quantity of Thirteen Thousand four hundred Seaventy one pounds of
every way well Conditioned Tobbacco in Cask which to him he Oweth and
from unjustly deteineth.

[129] And whereupon the Said Clement Sale by Robert Gouldsborough his
Attorney Saith That whereas the Said John Salter the 22^th day of September
Annoque Dni 1697 att York Town in Talbott County by his Certein Bill or
Writing Obligatory Sealed with his Seale as his Act and Deed delivered and
hereinto Court brought whose Date is the Same day and Year, he bound