570       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1670.

        Liber J3   Robt Williams agt James Lewis late of St Maries County Planter
              James Lewis was Attached to Answer unto Robt Williams in A
              Plea of Trespas uppon the Case &c. And whereuppon the said Rob-
              ert Williams by John Morecroft his Attorney Complayneth That
              whereas the said James bought had & Recd diverse goods & Mar-
              chandizes of him the said Robert uppon the Sixteenth day of Decem-
              ber 1669 Amountinge in all to the Sume of Fower Hundred Thirty
              Five poundes of Tobaccoe As it may Appeare by a note of Perticulars
              by the said Robert heere in Cort brought, In Consideraëon whereof
              the said James did Assume uppon himselfe & to the said Robert did
              Faithfully promise That lie the said James the said severall Suffles
              of Tobaccoe Amountinge in the whole to the said Sume of Fower
              Hundred Thirty Five poundes of Tobaccoe to him the said Robert
              would well & Truely pay when thereunto Requiered, Notwithstand-
              inge which the said James his promise & Assumpcon soe as aforesaid
              made little Regardinge Butt devisinge and Fraudulently intendinge
              him the said Robert of the said Sume of Fower Hundred & Thirty
              Five poundes of Tobaccoe to him the said Robert hath not paid
              (though often thereunto requiered) Nor given any Content for the
              same Whereuppon the said Robert Sayeth That he is Dampnifyed &
              hath Losse of Six Hundred poundes of Tobaccoe, And thereuppon
              he bringeth his suite.
               Att which day to witt the said Fowerteenth day of December,
              Came the said Robert Williams by his Attorny and the said James
              by his Attorny And the said James noethinge in Barr of the said
              Accon of the said Robert said Wherefore the said Robt doeth Re-
              maine agt the said James undefended Wherefore it is granted by the
              Cot heere that the said Robert shall Recover agt the said James the
              said Sume of Fower Hundred Thirty Five poundes of Tobaccoe As
              alsoe the Sume of Three Hundred Twenty Two poundes of Tobaccoe
              For his Costs & Charges by him in that suite Expended, & to him
              by the Cort heere Adjudged & to the said James in mercy &c.

              pp Thomas Notley James Smallwood lnte of Charles County was
              agt James Smallwood Attached to Answer unto Thomas Notley
              Gentl one of the Attornyes of this Cort Accordinge to the Pniviledges
              &c, of a Plea of Trespass uppon the Case.
               And whereuppon the said Thomas in his pper person sayeth That
              whereas the said James was uppon the Twenty Fowerth day of July
              in the yeare of or Lord One Thousand Six Hundred sixty Nyne in
              the xxxviiith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c indebted unto
              the said Thomas in the sume of One Thousand Fower Hundred &
              Nyne poundes of Tobaccoe thentofore all bought & Received of the
              said Thomas Hee the said James in Consideracon thereof by his Cer-
              tame writinge under his hand heere in Cott produced whose date is