374        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1668.

       Liber FF   part of the perquisitts and quittrents of his Bayliwick which was
              sound merchantable tobacco when Collected as aforesaid and like-
              wise then marked wth the lord Proprs mark and for the use of the said
              Lord Propr and this hee is ready to auerr and therefore demandeth
              Judgmt if the said John his accon agt him the said Thomas Ought
              to haue                               Jenifer
               The defendt doth Craue a reference by reason his wittnesses though
              suthoned doe not appeare to proue his plea
               The Court Considering that it is late in the yeare and will be too
              late att the next Court for the paymt for tobaccoes, will not suffer a
              reference to be granted except the defendt Attorny will Engage that
              in Case a reference be granted till next Court & the defendt be Cast
              that the tobacco shall then bee paid, which was denyed by the Attorny
              the deft being not in prson prsent in Court Wherefore Judgmt past
              that the defdt doe sattisfye unto the plt the aforesaid sume of Three
              Thowsand pounds of tobaccoe
              Edmund Lindsey plaintiff     Morecroft p quer
              Thomas Sprigg defendant Caluert p defendt
               The plt sues the defendt in a plea of tresspass upon the Case for
              keeping an Entertaining the plts seruant by name Rob: Leeds
               Both partyes hauing put theire difference to Arbitracon & Elected
              Mr Thomas Nottley and Docter John Perce for the determining of
              the same, doth into Court bring & present theire Arbittramt, which
              was by the defendants Attorny Ordered that it might bee Accord-
              ingly Entred and Acknowledged, uizt that they the said Arbitrators
              doe Doome and award that the said Thomas Sprigg shall pay or
              Cause to be paid to the said Edmund Lindsey his Executors or
              Assignes the Just quantity of Fiue Thowsand pounds of good
              Arranoca tob in Caske att or neer portobacco Creek in Charles
              County at or before the last day of this instant month of december
              for wch he the said sprigg shall immediately pass his specialty to the
              said Lindsey for paymt thereof accordingly and then the said Edmund
              Lindsey to giue the sd Sprigg a Generall release, wittnes theire hands
              and seales                  Tho: Nottley
         (Seald)
                                         John Pearce
         [p. 676] Henry Hoser and John Staines plts  Morecroft p quer
             Tho: Cooper the Admr of  Jenifer p defendt
               Thom Freeman defendant
               The plaintiffs sues the defendt as Administrator of the Goods and
              Chattles of Thomas Freeman late of Bristoll deed Upon a specialty
              in a plea that hee render to them Twenty Thowsand Two hundred
              pounds of tobacco which hee unjustly detaineth &c:

               And the said Thomas by Daniel Jenifer his Attorny Cometh and
              defendeth the force and Injury when &c and for plea saith that the