174       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663-64.

              Liber B B  for which Yor petr humbly craueth yor Honnors to grant him an
                     Ordr Cost & Charge of Suite And hee shall as in duty bound euer
                                     pray

              uide folio Robert Chysick dds writt agst George Beckworth in an accon of
                       262 the Case—
                       Warrt to Sherriffe of Caluert County to arrest &c retur next pro
                     uinciall Court 5th Aprill next
                       Summons in ditto Causo to warne Geo: Phillips and Joseph Hosley
                     rd ut Supra—
                     Robert Chysick plaintiffe
                     George Beckwith defendt
                       Sheweth That whereas George Bickwith did Condicon wth your
                     petr for three men Seruants and One woman Seruant to make a
                     Cropp and the said Bickwith to finde howsing and dyet and other
                 [p. 233]     necessary thinges For the Seruants and yor petrs accomodacons yor
                       petr hath performed his Condicons in making of a Crop and yor petr
                       was engaged Condicon to pay unto the said Beckwithe Eleauen
                       thowsand flue hundred pounds of tobaccoe & Caske upon his plan
                       tacon this winter yor petr is ready to prforme his Condicon & Con
                       trary to the Condicon the said Beckwith hath disposed of yor petrs
                       Crop of tobaccoe & Seauenty barrills of Come that was wholy due
                       to yor petr and the sd Beckwith will not come to noe accompt but hath
                       depriued yor petr of his whole Liuelyhood both of Corne & tobaccoe
                       that yor petr is a greate Sufferer—
                       Now the humble request of yor Petr is that this honble Court bee
                     pleased to Order the said Beckwith to returne the whole Cropp of
                     Come and tobaccoe Cost of suite and yor petr as bound in duty
                     shall euer pray

                       George Read dds writt against Mary Bateman the Executrix of
                     John Bateman Esqr deceased in an accon of the Case to the uallue of
                     1200lb tob:—
               uide folio Warrant to Sherriffe Caluert County to arrest &c rd next prouin
                   261 ciall Court 5th day Aprill next
                     George Read plaintiffe
                     Mary Bateman the
                       Executrix of John
                       Bateman defendant
                       The plaintiffe Sues the defendt in an accon of the Case for that
                     the plaintiffe Sometime in Octobr last sold the defendts then hus
                     band two steeres which was deliuered his Ouerseer Rob: Perry for
                     the use of the said Bateman, in Consideracon whereof the said Bate
                     man was to pay unto the plaintiffe the suth of twelue hundred pounds
                     of tobaccoe which is refused by the defendt without Ordr first ob
                     tained from this Honblee Court the which hee humbly Craueth wth
                     Cost of Suite And as in duty bound hee shall pray &c—