522       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669—70.

         Liber JJ   convenient place in St Maries County Charles County or Calvert
               County on or upon the tenth day of November next ensueing the
               date of the said bill to which payment well and truly to be made the
               said John did bind himselfe his heirs executors and administrators
               firmly by the said bill which said summe of three thousand pounds
               of tobacco the said John hath not paid according to the tenor of the
               said bill to him the said Charles though often thereunto required but
               doth altogether refuse to pay the same whereupon the said Charles
               saith he is dampnified and hath losse to the value of foune thousand
               pounds of tobacco and thereupon he brings his suite.
                And the said John Nutthall at the same pnovinciall Count to witt
               the tenth day of February in the xxxviiith yeare of the Dominion of
               Caecilius &c in his proper person cometh and defendeth the force
               and injury when &c and confesseth judgment by nihil dicit for the
               debt abovesaid therefore it is considered of by the Court here that
               the said Charles Calvert Esq recover against him the said John
               Nutthall the said summe of three thousand pounds of tobacco and
               costs.

               Charles Calvert Esq John Nutthall late of St Maries ies County planter
               agt John Nutthall was sumoned to answer unto Charles Calvert
               Esp of a plea that he render to him the summe of fifty thousand
               pounds of tobacco which he oweth and unjustly deteineth &c.
                Whereupon the said Charles Calvent by Thomas Notley his At-
               torny saith that whereas the said Charles Calvert by a certaine paire
               of Indentures beareing date the tenth day of October in the seaven
               and thirty yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoaj Dom One
               thousand six hundred sixty eight and made betweene the said Charles
               Calvent Esq on the One party and the said John Nutthall of the other
               panty the One part sealed with the seale of the said John and here by
               the said Charles in Count brought did demise grant and to farme lett
               unto the said John Nutthall all that the Mannour of St Johns Scitu-
               ate lyeing and being in the County of St Maries aforesaid containeing
               by estimation One thousand acres of land together with all and singu-
               lar the houses edifices and buildings thereupon built together with the
               Orchards yards Gardens wayes easements woods undenwoods pnofitts
               priviledges and Comodities to the Mannour belonging or any wayes
               appunteining which said premisses are now in the Occupation of him
               the said John Nutthall or his assignes To have and to hold the said
         [p. 70]    Mannour and all and singular the above demised premisses with their
               appurtenncs unto the said John Nutthall his heirs on assignes from
               the day of the date hereof for and dureing the full terme and time of
               five yeares from thence to be compleate and ended Yeilding and pay-
               ing therefore yearly and every yeare dureing the said terme of five
               yeanes to the said Charles Calvent his heirs executors or assignes the
               yearly rent or quantity of nine thousand pounds of good sound mer