Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678. 21

security according to Law as by the said proceedings remaining
upon Record in the said County of Ann Arundell relacon being
thereunto had may appeare Afterwards the said Thomas the
day of att Ann Arundell County aforesaid accompted
with him the said Richard, & paid him the said Richard the full
ballance of all accompts between them And the said Richard by a
certaine writeing of Acquittance him the said Thomas fully did
discharge And also gave unto the said Thomas one order under the
hand of the said Richard to Robert Carvile gentl Attorney of the
said Richard, adviseing & thereby ordering him to withdraw the
accons depending before his Lordpps Justices of the Provinciall
Court upon the Appeale aforesaid att the suite of the said Richard
against the said Thomas Yet the said Richard being one of the
Justices of the County Court of Ann Arundell maliciously intending
deviseing & plotting unlawfully & unjustly to grieve & trouble him
the said Thomas in this behalfe, & him the said Thomas to vex
perplex trouble & impoverish affwards that is to say the Twenty
seventh day of ffebruary One thousand six hundred seventy seven
maliciously unlawfully & corruptly without any new judgem^t of the
County Court given or bill of costs signed or procedendo returned
from his Lordpps Justices of the Provinciall Court did prosecute
procure & obtaine out of the said County Court of Ann Arundell a
certaine writt of capias ad satis faciendum against the said Thomas
in his own name & att his own suite to the Sheriffe of the County of
Ann Arundell directed, by which same writt the Lord Prop^ry co-
manded the said Sheriffe that he should take the body of the said
Thomas & him in safe Custody keep so that he should have the
body of the said Thomas before the said Justices of the County of
Ann Arundell att the next Court to be held in the County aforesaid
on the second Tuesday in March next ensueing to satisfie unto
Richard Hill one of his Lordpps Justices the sume of ffive hundred
ninety Eight pounds of tobacco being a certaine Costs & Court
charges due unto the said Richd Hill upon a certaine judgem^t by him
recovered against the said Thomas Bland att a Court held in the
said County in March 1676/7 And that he should have then & there
that writt As by the said writt remaining on Record in that County

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itt doth appeare Upon which said writt the said Thomas The said
Twenty seventh day of ffebruary att the Towne of Ann Arundell
in the County aforesaid was taken & Arrested by the Sheriffe of
the said County, & by the said Sheriffe in the prison of the Lord
Prop^ry in the same County in Execucon for the said sume of five
hundred ninety eight pounds of tobacco for the costs of suite afore-
said the said Twenty seventh day of ffebruary in the yeare aforesaid
untill the twelfth day of March then next following unjustly unduely
& illegally was detained Upon which said twelfth day of March in
the yeare aforesaid the said Thomas the said five hundred ninety
Eight pounds of tobacco together with costs & charges for his

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