546 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661,

Liber
P. C. R.

monete Angl solvend eidem Abeli aut suo certo Atturn Execut Ad-
ministratoribz nel Assign suis in festo sci Johis Bapte prox futur post
dat hujus Recognicionis et nisi fecit vult & concedit qd dca suma
Mille libra levet & recupet de bonis & cattalis [terr] tentis & here-
dittamentis ipius Thome her [ed Executor vel] Administrator suo
ubicunq furint invent infra p^rdict pvinciam Terra Marie vocat Mary-
land ad solum et ppria opus et vsum p^rf at, Abelis hered Executor uel
Administrator suos Teste me ipo dco Csecilio Baron de Baltemore
dno proprietar pvinc. p^rdict. apud London infra' Regnum Angl de-
cimo nono die Junij Anno Regin dni nri Caroli dei gra Angl. Scocie
Franc. & hibernie Regis fidei defensorio & decimo sexto Annoq
dmni 1640 Thomas Gerrard
Recognit p p^rfat Thoma Gerrard die & Anno dat. p^rsentium coram
me
Caecilio Barren de Baltemore et dno Proprietar provincia p^rdict
C: Baltemore
I doe hereby certefye that this is a true coppy of a Recogniz
accknowledged by the said Tho: Gerrard before me C: Baltemore
This Indenture made the nineteenth day of June in the 16^th
yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles by the
grace of god of England Scotland France & Ireland defender of
the fayth &c. Betweene Abell Snowe of Cursitars office in Chan-
cery Lane London gent...... and Thomas Gerrard of Newhall in

p. 1050

the County .... the Province of Maryland .... Administrators and
Assigns in the Sume of one thousand pounds of lawfull English
money to be Leauyed upon the said Goods and Chatties Lands Ten-
em^ts and hereditaments of the said Thomas Gerrard his heires
Executors and Administrators, wheresoeuer they shall be found
either within the Kingdome of England or within the pts of Virg^a
as by the said Recognizance doth and may more att Large appeare.
Now this p^rsent Indenture of defeazance upon the said Recog-
nizance Wittnesseth that if the said Thomas Gerrard his heires Exec-
utors Administrators or Assigns shall well and truly pay or cause
to be payd vnto the said Abell Snowe his heires Executors Adm^rs or
Assigns the full Sume of Thirty fiue thousand pound weight of good
and merchantable Leafe tobacco of Maryland well and sufficiently
packed and putt vp in good and sufficient Caske in such manner and
forme as itt shall then be generally vsed to be packed in the said
Province of Maryland att the severall tymes when the payment
thereof shall growe due, that is to say five thousand pound weight
thereof in or upon the tenth day of January next Ensueing the date
of theis p^rsents and tenn thousand pounds weight thereof more in or
upon the tenth day of January which shall be in the yeare of our
Lord one thousand six hundred forty and one And tenn thousand
pounds weight thereof more in or upon the tenth day of January
which shall be in the yeare of our lord god one thousand six hundred