Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.     31

   Confess Judgmt for the said debt of One thowsand Two hundred Liber FF
   pounds of tobaccoe


   To   the honble the Gouernor & Councell In Prouinciall Court Assembled
     St Mary ss: Wm Smyth of St Marys aforesaid Complaines agst
   william Price of Charles County in the Prouince aforesaid, for
   that whereas the William Price stands endebted unto yor Comptt:
   by bond bearing date 7th Octobr 1664 in the Suffle of Thirety Thow-
   sand pounds of tobacco & Caske as by the said Bond upon Record
   in this Court will appeare, Now soe it is that the said Price utterly
   denyeth and still doth deney to pay the same unto yor petr to his [p. 238]
   great damage whereuppon hee bringeth his accon, and prayeth Order
   of this honble Court for speedy paymt thereof & Cost of Suite And
   he shall pray &c:


   Wm Smyth plt: The defendt for Answere saith That the plt: is
   Wm Price deft fsattisfyed his debt a Plantacon of the deft3,
   now in his possession

     Tho: Paine sworne in ditto Causo sayth That he bought of the
   aforesaid Wm Price a Plantacon formerly Capt Wm Boarmans, and
   for the same this deponant sayth he pd for Nine thowsand pounds
   of tob: & upwards and further he saith not

     The deft desires time to send for his wittnesses to proue that
   the ptt: hath possest the said plantacon uppon the accompt of the
   said Debt
     Time granted untill tomorrow morning to the deft to proue that
   sattisfaccon is made according to the tenor of the Bond by the plts
   possessing of the said plantacon stock and Cattle.
     William Price demands summons for samll Prickloue and samuell
   Brockett to testifye in ditto Causo.
     Warrt to sherr: St Marys County to warne &c: Ret: tomorrow
   morning this prsent Cort
     The abouesaid Paine did declare uppon Oath that the said Price
   did sell him the plantacon since he past that Obligacon to william
   Smyth


   Mr John Morecroft
     Whereas there is an Accon of debt entred against me Fortune
   Mittford Admtrix of my husband Bulmer Mittford decd by mr John
   nuthall, I pray yoW appeare for mee and Confess Judgmt for 1200 lb
   tob: & Caske due to him the said mr John Nuthall by bond and
   this shall be yor warrant for soe doeing wittnes my hand this 2d
   Aprill 1666.                     Fortune Mitford
   Wittnes Thomas Gerrard