110 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663-64.





              Liber B B  honrs to graunt him an order for the paymt of the sd Debt according
                     to the tenor of his Bill according to Law & Justice, And yor Petr as
                     in duty bownd shall euer pray &c: John Nutthall.

                       This Bill bindeth mee ffobbee Roberts my heyres Executors Ad
                     mistrators ioyntly to pay or cause to bee payd to Capt John Tulley
                     & company, eyther of them their heyres Executors Adminstratrs &
                     assignes the full & iust sume of Three Thowsd & Three hundd pownds
                     of good sownd merchble Tob & cask uppon all demands wthout
                     Grownd Leaues or seconds in some conuenient place att St Maries, or
                     St Jeroms or thereabouts. Wittnes my hand this 16th of Nouembr
                     1663.                           ffobbe Roberts
                       Signed in the prflce of
                          Will:    Caluert
                          Nich:    Young

                [p. 152] Richard Collett plf Accon Trespasse. The plf declareth agst the
                     ffobbe Roberts deftf deft, how tht the last yeare the deft comming
                     into Patuxt Riuer, in the ptfs absence did take & carry away a hogs-
                     head of Tob of the pIfs weighing 383t neate Tob, & out of the howse
                     of Thomas Pagett & Michael Cranley being marked R. C. since the
                     plf sending & requyring satisfaction from the deft for his sd Tob,
                     Yett the deft refuseth soe to doe, Conuerting the same to his owne use
                     & benifitt. Wherefore the plf craues order agst the deft, wth Costs &
                     daffiage, & for this bringeth his accon.

                       Came Thomas Winne & Recordeth his marke of Cattle (Vizt)
                     The Right eare under half e: & a hole in the Left eare.

                       Know all men by these presents tht I Henry Hudson of Portobacco
                     in Charles County in the Prouince of Maryland mariner, Doe hereby
                     bind my self e my heyres Executors Administrators or assignes to pay
                     or cause to bee payd unto John Cane of the sd place, County, & Prou
                     ince Planter to him his heyres Executors Admistrators or Assignes
                     the full & iust sume of Seauenteene hundd & Eighty ffowre pownds
                     of good sownd merchble Leafe Tob & cask, To bee payd att or uppon
                     the first of March next ensuing the date hereof, And for the true
                     prformance hereof I doe hereby assigne make ouer & deliuer unto
                     the sd John Cane one Copper Gunne, wch after the day of the date
                     aboue specifyed the sd Cane his heyres Executors Admistrators or
                     Assignes shall haue ffree power & Liberty to keepe, & dispose of as
                     hee himselfe shall please in case tht neyther I the sd Hudson, nor any
                     one from by or under mee, doe pay the abouesd Tob. according to the
                     date aboue specifyed, or before it, in some Conuenient place or
                     places in Portobacco or thereabouts. As wittnes my hand this 5th