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    Said John Balley or his order at any time when Required this present Liber C D
    Cropp of Tobacco 1673. And this depon.t further Deposeth and (fol. 119)
    Saith that for & towards paym.t of the Remainder of the Said
    Tobacco due by the said Decree being 25176.£ this Depon.t hath
    Given Sev.” orders to receive Sev.ll Suths of Tob.° amounting to
    9298k Tob: but he the s.d James Neale hath not thitherto for any
    thing appears by any accounts made by him the Said James Neale
    to this Depon.t or the s.d notes delivered both to this Deponent p.d that
    S.d Sume of 9298.£ Tob.° or any pt thereof to this Depon.ts knowl
    edge though this depon.t did the last Co.rt inform the s.d Neale of the
    S.d ord.r and notes Charged on him he then promised to pay
    together also with the Remaind.r of the Said Sume Decreed w.ch
    in the whole (all the s.d Sume) of thirty Six thousand four hundred &
    fourteen pounds, & 9298.£ Tob (if made appear to be p.d) will amount
    to the sume of 15878.£ of Tobo which Said Sume of 15878£ Tob.° p. 94
    the Said James Neale hath not hitherto paid but Still Refuseth to ° 119)
    pay the Same John Bailey.
      Juravit Die 22.° Decembris Anno Domini 1673
                              Coram me Philhip Calvert
      Att Charles County Attach James Neale for the breach of a
    Decree als John Bailey by the Oath of the Said Bailey Ut Supra ret.
    10.th ffeb :y Teste 23.° Decembris 1673.

      Quem diem Clausit Extr to Henry Hyde & Richard Loyd of S.t
    maries County Gent to Inquire after the Lands & Tenem.ts of John
    Pritchett deceased Test one & thirtieth day of Jan.ry 1673 ret
    Imediat

      Quem diem Clausit Extr to Joseph Weeks & John Wright of
    Kent County Gent to Inquire after the Lands of Andreas Elinor (a
    Spaniard) deced Test the fourth of march 1673 ret Imediat

      Cæcilius &c To the Sheriff of S.t maries County Greeting Whereas
    we did by our Letters patent under our Great Seale of our s.d prov
    ince of maryland bearing date the Seventh day of Septr in the year of
    our Lord 1663 for the Consideracons therein named Grant unto
    Thomas Gerrard Esq.r a parcell of Land Called the Meadows Lying
    at the head of Wiccocomoco River in S.t maryes County Containing
    and then Laid out for four hundred acres more or Less as by our
    Said Grant Relation being thereunto had more fully and more at
    large it doth and may appear, Now for that we had Long before that (fol. 120)
    time Reserved for our own use a parcell of Land in S.t marys County
    Called Choptico manno.r of w.ch the Said parcell of Land is part,
    And the Said Thomas Gerrard being Sencible thereof fraudulently
    procured our Grant afores.d to the disinherizon of us & our heirs of
    the prmisses, And the Said Thomas Gerrard being Since deced We