Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     367

         death of the said Elizabeth though often thereunto requested hath Liber N N
         not paid or satisfied according to the tenor of the said bill but the
         same to pay hath hitherto denyed & Still doth deny to the damage
         of the said Henry Robert & Clement five thousand pounds of tobacco
         And thereupon they bring their suite And they bring here into Court
         aswell the Letters Testamentary of the said Elizabeth as of the said
         Richard by which it may appeare to the Court that they are Execu-
         tors &c and have right of Administration.
          And the said George by Mathew Warde his Attorny cometh &
         defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty to im-
         parle hereunto untill the next Court & it is granted him the same
         day is given to the plaintiffs.
          Now here at this day to wit the ninth day of December in the
         second yeare of the Dominion of Charles &c Annoq Dom 1676
         Came the said Henry Robert & Clement & Offered themselves agt
         the said George in the plea aforesaid but the Said George came not
         but made default Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the
         said Henry Robert & Clement recover against the said George aswell
         the summe of two thousand eight hundred ninty five pounds of
         tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred and
         ninty One pounds of tobacco costs of suite & the said George in
         mercy.

          Comãnd was given to the Sheriff of st Maries County that he p. 225
         attach any the goods Chattells or Creditts of Thomas Cullen if &c
         to the value of thirteene thousand three hundred thirty three pounds
         of tobacco & when he had the same attached or any part thereof
         the same in his Custody to Keepe untill the said Thomas Cullen
         should by himselfe or his Attorny appeare here the two & twentith
         day of May Anno 1676 to answer unto Mary Keene executrix of
         the last will & Testament of Richard Keene deceased in a plea of
         trespas upon the case.
          Att which day the same Sheriff maketh returne of the writ afore-
         said endorsed By virtue of this writ I have attached in the hands of
         Robert Carvile six thousand pounds of tobacco.
                                     Clement Hill Sheriff.
         Jarvis Ballard     .
           a      the def by Christopher Rousby his Attorny appeares
           g      & this cause continued untill next Court.
         Richard Pery

         Thomas Taylor
            agt
         Daniel Clarke