NOVEMBER, 1698 COURT 427

pounds of Tobacco and casque according to the tennor of the Said bill obligatory
allthough often required the same to the Said Stephen and Company hath not
rendered but the Same to render hath denyed and Still doth denye to the Damage
of the Said Stephen and Company of 1600 lbs. of Tobacco and thereof they bring
this Suite etc.

Pledges etc. John Doe, Richard Roe. Joshua Cecell.

The Plantives by their attorney aforesaid haveing Ishued out a writt against
the Defendant which Said writt was by the Sheriff returned that the Said Defend-
ant was not to be found in his Bailewick and likewise have Caused a Coppy of the
Declaration to be left att the house where the Defendant last Lived in this
County it is likewise testifyed that the Said Defendant hath Alianed himselfe out
of the Jurisdiction of this Court whereupon the Said Stephen Delancy and
Company by their attorney afforesaid prayeth an atteachment against the goods
Chatties and Credditts of the Said Thomas Vaughun for the Said Sume of Eight
Hundred fifty Eight pounds of Tobacco his Debt aforesaid as allso the Sume of
four hundred forty one lbs. of Tobacco their Cost and Charges in this behalfe
Laid out and Expended and by the Court it is Granted unto them.

[380] Charles Rigby Plantive: William Groome Defendant

The Plantive by William Stone his attorney Sues the Defendant in a Plea of
Tresspass upon the Case as by Declaration and which Should have been here
Entred would appear but the Plantiff upon the Defendants allinateing himself out
of the Jurisdiction of this Court had by the Motion of his Attorney an Atteach-
ment Granted unto him but not Findeing Nothing upon which to Lay his Atteach-
ment Proceeded noe Farther in the Prosecution of his Suite and for want of the
Declaration and account the Priveleidg of the abovesaid grant could not be entred
in the Common Forme as is usually in Such Cases, and for the Said Cause and
noe other this record could not be made up.

Paggon and Company Plantiff: Thomas Vaughun Defendant
The Plantives Sues the Defendant by a Common Capias in a Plea of tresspass
upon the Case etc. The Defendant allinated himselfe out of the Jurisdiction of
this Court and the Sherife returneth that he was not to be found which was mani-
festly known The Plantives Attorney Prayes an Atteachment against the goods
and Chatties of the Said Defendant, and it is granted unto him, but not knowing
where to find anything whereupon to Lay the Said Atteachment they Neither
Filed their Declaration nor account soe that the Judgement of Court in Granting
the Said atteachment could not be Entered up in the behalf of the plantives etc.

[381] Prince Georges County Court November the 25th 1698.
Present. Mr. Thomas Hollyday, Mr. John Wight, Mr. Robert Bradley, Mr.
Robert Tyler, Mr. Robert Wade, Mr. Samuell Magruder, Mr. John Hawkins,
Comissioners.

Whereas there has been this day Severall Cleimes made by Diver Persons for
Tobacco due to them for wolfes heads and other Incident Charges due from the
Said County, and whereas the Said Justices have been by Severall persons of good
Credditt and Some members of the House of Burgeses informed that the act of
assembly Impowering the Justices of the respective County Courts to assess and
Leavie the Said Charges on the Severall inhabitants in their Countyes for want
of revivall is of noe force, and the Said Justices haveing Examined the Said act