450       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669.

        Liber JJ   law full mony of England which he oweth them and unjustly de-
              taineth &c And whereupon the said George and Edward by Benjamin
              Rozer their Attorny say That whereas the said John the six and
              twentith day of march in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six
              hundred sixty nine and in the xxxviith yeare of the Dominion of
              Caecilius &c by his certaine writeing Obligatory sealed with the seale
          [p.3]    of the said John and here by the said George and Edward in Court
              brought whose date is the day and yeare abovesaid did confesse and
              acknowledge himselfe to Owe and stand justly indebted to the said
              George and Edward in the aforesaid sume of twelve hundred pounds
              of good and lawfull mony of England to be paid unto the said
              George pattison or Edward Dyer and Compa to their or either of
              their heirs executors administrators or assignes at demand to the
              which payment well and truly to be made and done the said John
              bound himself e his heirs executors and admrs by the same writeing
              yet the aforesaid John though often thereunto required the said
              twelue hundred pounds of good and lawfull mony of England to
              them the said George and Edward hath not rendred but the same to
              render to them hath denyed and the same to the said George and
              Edward as yet to render doth deny and unjustly detaine whereupon
              they say they are dampnified and have damage to the value of fifteen
              hundred pounds Sterling And thereupon they bring their suite &c
               And the aforesaid John by Daniel Jenifer his Attorny Comes and
              defends the force and injury when &c and the said John prayeth the
              heareing of the said writeing Obligatory and it is read unto him he
              prayeth also the heareing of the Condition of the said writeing and
              it is read unto him in these words vizt The Condition of this Obliga-
              con is Such That if the abovebounden John Thomas doe and shall
              well and truly content and pay or cause to be paid unto the above-
              named George Pattison or Edward Dyer or Compa them or either of
              them their or either of their heirs executors administrators or as-
              signes the full summe of One hundred thousand pounds of good
              Sound merchantable Arranoco tobacco in Caske within seventy daies
              next after the Arrivall of the said George Pattison or his lawfull
              Attorny or Attornyes this yeare in Virginia or Maryland and notice
              given unto the said John Thomas or upon the last day of December
              next that then this Obligacon to be void or else to stand in full force
              power and virtue which words being read and heard the said John
              by his Attorny saith that as to the One hundred thousand pounds of
              tobacco the said Daniel saith he is not informed by the said John
              his Client of any answer thereunto to give therefore the said George
              doth remaine against him the said John as to the said One hundred
              thousand pounds of tobacco and caske undefended.
                                                Daniel Jenifer

               Whereas there is An action of Debt comenced in the Provinciall
              Court against me John Thomas by George Pattison and Edward