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      ensueing the date of the abouesaid Obligacon being uppon good Con- Liber F F
      sideracon as by the aforesaid Obligacon may (Relacon being there-
      unto had) more amply appeare
       Now soe it is that they the aforesaid James Jolly and Walter Pake
       the abouesaid Obligacon not minding nor regarding, but him the
       said Wm Euans: they Craftyly and deceipt fully Intending to Cozen
       and defraud hath not according to theire obligacon aforesaid the said
       mare and foale deliuered and although he the said William Euans
       hath of him the said Walter Pake to say seuerall times demanded the
       prformance of the said Obligacon yet neuerthelesse, he the said
       Walter Pake hath and still doth refuse the aforesaid Obligacon to
       prforme in manner and forme as aforesaid, Whereuppon hee saith
       is made the worse and dampnifyed to the ua!lue of ffowre thowsand
       pounds of tobacco and Caske whereuppon hee bringeth this his suite
       and prayeth Iudgmt for the said mare and foa!e and for his damage
       wth Cost of suite—
       Coll William Euans dds summons for Wm Smyth and George [p. 16]
      Reynolds to testif ye &c in ditto Causo foregoeing uppon perill of for- May 8th
      feiting 500lb tob: each person in Case they appeare not according to
      summons
        Warrt to sherriffe of St Marys County to warne &c. Ret: 13th
      June next Prouinall Court

     To the Rigt Honble Charles Caluert Esq Leiut Generall and Gouernor
         of Maryland And to the Gentlemen of the Honble Councell in
         Prouinciall Court
        The Humble petn of Philip Holedger Humbly sheweth
        That whereas yor petr being lately marryed to Mary Hasling
      Daughter to Jeremiah Hasling late of South riuer in this prouince
      deceased, and she being heire apparent unto the said Hasling hath
      thereby right to and property in all such goods Chattles lands and
      Tenemts the which the said Jeremiah Hasling dyed possest off either
      in deed or law
        Now soe it is that not long before the death of the said Jeremiah
      hee did by will giue and bequeath unto the wife of the supplyant and
      one other of his daughters by name Phebe then liuing and since allsoe
      deceased, his whole Estate both Reall and Ptsonall in moieties which
      said will by Causualty was lost and not long after the loseing of the
      sd will he the said Jeremiah Hasling Did fall into a mortall desease
      by which Visitacon of sickness he sometime before his death was
      totally depriued of his Reason and sences, In and uppon which Junc
      ture of time he the said Jeremiah being in that lamentable and mis
      erable affliction by Visited by One James Southward, now of Balte
      more in this Prouince, And he the said Southward them the Chil
      dren of him the said Hasling wickedly maliciously & Couetiously