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     tob: as was due to him to Collect for the Countryes use and did as- Liber B B
     signe him the Hollingworth to pay the same for the use of Mrs
     Hannah Lee, which the said Hollingworth accepted of and promised
     to doe for all which tobacco the said Hollingworth would giue noe
     receipts for untill that hee had receiued the tobacco from the Seuerall
     parties where the same was due as yor petr will make appeare.
       Now soe it is that in the interim before all this tobaccoe Could
       bee paid or receiued Mr Hammond dying and Mr Hollingworth tak
       ing hold of that Occasione did receiue the tobacco and did after
       refuse to giue an accompt thereof to Mr Richard Willan who after
       Mr Hammonds decease demanded an accompt of him neither would
       hee discount or pay the tob: to Mrs Lee, as hee ought and promised
       to doe but receiuing all the tobacco assigned by Mr Hammond as
       aforesaid, and after his death brings in an accompt whereby hee
       makes Mr Hathond indebted to him and for Hammonds owne per
       ticular use, And soe defrauds Mr Willan of the Leauy tobaccoe soe
       that the said Mr Willan was Compelled by Ordr of Court to sattisfye
        Lee out of his owne Estate the aforesaid tobacco—
       The prmises Considered yor petr humbly Craues Order of this
     Honble Court agst the said Hollingworth for the said 2500lb tob:
     Wth Cost of Suite and yor petr shall pray &c

       Know all men by these prsents that I Francis Armstrong of Mary- [p. 243]
     land Gentn Doe Owe and Stand indebted unto Samuel Tilghman
     Comandr of the Good Shipe Goulden ffortune of London his heires
     Executors Administrators or Assignes the full and Just Suth: of two
     and twenty thowsand Pounds of Tobaccoe Caske, To bee paide
     unto the said Samuell Tilghman his heires Executors Administrators
     or Assignes to the which paymt well & truey to bee made I binde mee
     my heires Executors & Administrators firmely by these prsents, Sealed
     wth my Seale and Dated this 7th day of Aprill 1664
       The Condicon of this Obligacon is such, That if the aboue bounden
     Francis Armstrong his heires Executors Administrators or Assignes
     doe well and truey pay or Cause to bee paid unto the aboue named
     Samuell Tilghman his heires Executors Administrators or Assignes
     the Sume of Eleauen Thousand pounds of tobaccoe wth Caske in
     manner and forme following, That is to say Three Thowsand pounds
     of tobaccoe thereof att or uppon the tenth day of Octobr next ensue
     ing, ffiue and twenty hundred pñds of tobacco more thereof on the
     tenth day of Octob” in the yeare 1665, Three thowsand pounds of
     tobacco more thereof on the tenth of Octobr In the yeare 1666, ffiue
     & twenty hundred pownds of tobaccoe more in Compleating the said
     Sume of Eleauen Thowsand on the tenth of Octob” 1667, Then this Vide folio
     Obligacon to bee uoid otherwise that it shall and may bee Law full 244
     for the said Capt Tilghman, his heires or Assignes to take the beni
     fitt of the abouesaid Obligacon or else to Re-enter on a parcell of