566        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1670.

        Liber JJ Sloope & was to have Three poundes sterlinge p Month, & to be paid
              att the second Deliveringe Porte, And Further Sayeth That he did
              take Twelve Barrells on Freight & past Bills of Ladinge For the same
              unto mr Derevall of new yorke & Fower Barrells more belonginge
              unto Two other men, Two of them to Mr Townesend, & other Two
              yor Deponent doeth not Remember his name, And further Sayeth not
              Butt that yor Deponent was Enterteyned as Master on the sixt of
              May last past.
                            Sworne in Open Cort December the 14th 1670
                                                 T.   Cakewood

                Whereuppon It was Ordered by the Leiftent Genll & the said Cort
              That the Leiftenant Gen” takinge the prmisses above menconed into
              Consideracon, That Some way should be Ordered that the said Solo-
              mon Blackleech should have Such Allowance as his Honor shall
              thinke fitt, & he to Attende his Honor for the same.

              Benjamin Rozer agt Henry Stockett late of Ann Arundell County
              Henry Stockett Otherwise called Henry Stockett of Ann Arun-
              dell County in the Province of Maryland was Summoned to Answer
              unto Benjamin Rozer One of the Attornyes of this Cort Accordinge
              to the Priviledges &c of A Plea that he render unto him Two Thou-
              sand & Thirty Two poundes of Tobaccoe to him he oweth &
              unjustly Deteyneth &c.
                And whereuppon the said Benjamin in his proper Person Sayeth
              That whereas the said Henry uppon the Twenty Fowerth day of
              Aprill in the yeare of Or Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty
              Nyne, And in the xxxviith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c
              by his Certaine Bill Obligatory Sealed wth the Seale of him the said
              henry & heere in Cort produced whose Date is the day & yeare above-
              said Did Acknowledge himself to owe & stand Justly indebted to the
              said Benjamin in the Just Quantity of Two Thousand Thirty Two
              pounds of Sound Marchanttable Tobaccoe in Caske to be paid to the
              said Benjamin his heires Executors Admistrators or Assignes att or
        [r. 111]   before the Tenth day of October next ensuinge the date of the said
              Bill in Some Convenient place in Ann Arundell County afore-
              said, To the which payment well & Truely to be made the said Henry
              Did binde himselfe his heires Executors & Admistrators firmely by
              the said Bill, Notwithstandinge the said henry The said Sume of
              Two Thousand & Thirty Two pounds of Tobaccoe to the said Ben-
              jamin though often thereunto requiered hath not paid Accordinge
              to the Tennor of the said Bill, Butt the same doeth Altogeather
              refuse to pay to the greate damage of the said Benjamin Where-
              uppon he sayeth he is Dampnifyed & hath Losse to the vallue of
              Three Thousand poundes of Tobaccoe, & thereuppon he bringeth his
              suite
                               - .              JohnDoe
                         Rozer in ppria psona. Pleg   Richard Roe