Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661. 547

forty two And tenn thousand pounds weight more being the residue
thereof in or upon the tenth day of January which shall be in the
yeare of our Lord god 1643. All which said severall paym^ts are well
& truly to be made Att the howse of the said Abell Snowe called
Snowe Hill in the said Province, or att the howse of the said
Thomas Gerrard scituate in S^t Clements Hand in the said Province
he the said Thomas Gerrard giving a months notice next before the
day of payment thereof to the s^d Abell Snowe or his Assigns of the
certaine Quantity that shall be payd by him att both places, and for
soe much as shall be payd at S^t Clem^ts Island, the said Thomas
Gerrard shall keepe safe and indempnifyed from wett or otherwise
in his owne howses untill itt be received from him by the said Abell

Liber
P. C. R.

Snowe or his .... said to .... be payd yearely to the said Abell
Snowe or his Assigns by the said Thomas Gerrard as is Covenanted
and the same to come Clearely besides the weight of the caske to the
said Abell Snowe his heires Executors Adm^rs or Assigns in manner
and forme aboue specifyed that then this said Recognizance shall be
voyd and of none Effect but otherwise to stand & remayne in full
force & vertue, Neuertheles the said Abell Snowe doth hereby prom-
ise the said Thomas Gerrard his heires Executors & Adm^rs that if itt
shall soe happen that during the last three yeares the Province of
Maryland be stinted and Confined by any order either from the
Lords of his Majestys most hono^ble Privy Councell or by any Com-
and from the said Lord Baltemore by the very same Express
Regulacon of soe much & such Quantityes of Tobacco p head as the
Inhabitants of Virg^a are now stinted and Confined vnto that is to
say one hundred and fifty pound weight p head for themselves and
twenty pounds p head for publick charges as by the said Orders for
Regulacon in Virg^a more att Large itt doth and may appeare Then
the s^d Abell Snowe is Contented to accept of six thousand pounds
weight of tobacco soe ordered as itt is by the s^d Regulacon being
packed in good caske every yeare yearely during the said three last
yeares in Hew of the said tenn thousand pounds weight of tobacco
soe covenanted by the said Thomas Gerrard to be payd to the s^d
Abell Snowe his Executors Adm^rs or Assigns as aforesaid butt itt is
the express meaneing of both partyes to theis p^rsents that the five
thousand pounds weight of tobacco and Caske which is to be payd
the tenth day of January next ensueing the date of theis p^rsents shall
be well & truly payd as abouesaid whether there be any such Regu-
lacon or not regulacon in the Province of Maryland as is afore
expressed In wittness whereof both partyes to theis p^rsents inter-
changeably .... putt their hands and Seales the day and yeare ....
Thomas Gerrard

p. 1051

Thomas Cornwallis of the Cross in Maryland in America Esq^r
and John Langford of the pish of S^t Clem^ts danes in the County of
Midd gent, doe make oathe that their names aboue written as witt-

P. 1052