Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 107

pounds of tobacco And for severall Sumes of money amounting to
the same of about thirty shillings stert being the proper Goods &
Chattles of the said Elizabeth Green ats Potter and from her by the
said Isabell Gayton stollen and purloyned contrary to the said Act,
whereby the said Thomas Doxey & Ann his wife haue forfeited the
said Sume of two thousand pounds, whereupon the said Elizabeth
Green als Potter who as well for the Lord Prop^ry as for her selfe
prayeth the moiety thereof to her to be adjudged, & thereupon
bringeth this suite
And the said Thomas Doxey & Ann his wife by Robert Ridgely
their Attorney come & defend the force & injury when &c and pray
liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provintiall Court, & itt is
granted unto them, the same day is giuen to the p^ft also
Now here att this day to witt the Seventeenth day of ffebruary
in the fifth yeare of the Dominion of the right Hon^ble Charles Lord
Baltemore &c Annocp Doni 1679 came the same parties by their
Attorneys aforesaid And the said Thomas & Ann by their said Attor-
ney say, that the said Ann Doxey is in no wise guilty of the p^rmisses

Liber W. C.

Above by the said p^lt imposed upon her in manner & forme as the
said p^lt above against them hath complained, & of this they putt
themselves upon the Countrey And the p^lt also Therefore itt is
comanded the Sheriffe of S^t Maryes County that he cause to come
here twelve &c by whom &c & who neither &c to recognize &c because
as well &c
On which said Seventeenth day of ffebruary in the yeare afore-
said come the said parties by their Attorny aforesaid And the jurors
impannelled being called likewise came to witt Tho: Cosden, Joseph
Tilley, Marmaduke Semme, Samuel Holdsworth, John King, W^m
Husbands, Tho: Sedgwick, Robert Mason, W^m Harris, Tho: Alcock,
John Bouchier and Herman Norton, who being elected tryed &
sworne to say the truth in the p^rmisses upon their Oathes doe say
that the said Ann Doxey is not guilty of the p^rmisses aboue by the
said Elizabeth imposed upon her Therefore itt is considered that the
said Elizabeth take nothing by her writt, but be in mercy for her
false plaint thereupon And the said Thomas & Ann may goe thereof
without day And also that the said Tho: Doxey & Ann his wife
recover against the said Elizabeth Green als Potter the sume of
pounds of tobacco for their costs &
charges by them about their defence in this behalfe laid out & ex-
pended And that the said Elizabeth be taken &c

p. 97

John Bawdon
ag^t
John Quigley

I John Quigley late of S^t Maryes County otherwise
Icalled John Quigley of Maryland Merchant was
J Sumoned to Answer unto John Bawdon of London
M^rchant u r a plea that he render unto him the sume