Provincial Court Proceedings, 1670.     575

     said Miles Did Assume uppon himselfe & to the said Thomas did Liber JJ
     faithfully promise that he the said Miles the said Severall Sumes of
     Tobaccoe Amountinge in the whole to the said Sume of Eight Hun-
     dred Twenty Eight poundes of Tobaccoe to him the said Thomas
     would well & Truely pay when thereunto requiered, Notwithstandinge
     which the said Miles did promise & Assumpcon soe as aforesaid made
     little Regardinge Butt devisinge and Fraudulently intendinge him the
     said Thomas of the said Sume of Eight Hundred Twenty Eight
     poundes of Tobaccoe to deceive To him the said Thomas hath not
     paid though often thereunto requiered Nor given any Content for
     the same Whereuppon the said Thomas Sayeth That he is Dampni fyed
     & hath Losse of One Thousand & Two Hundred poundes of Tobaccoe
     & thereuppon he bringeth his suite.
       The said Miles Chafe not appearinge, nor any for him for De- [p. 117]
     fence or Answer to the said Declaracon last menconed, It was Ordered
     by the said Cort here That the said Thomas Notley should recover agt
     him the said Miles Chafe the debt in the Declaracon menconed of
     Eight Hundred Twenty Eight poundes of Tobaccoe Together with
     Costs of suite, & an Attachmt to be yssued out agt the said Miles
     Chafe for the same.

   The Cort then Adjorned till Nyne of the Clocke the next morninge
                      The Cort mett againe on Thursday morninge the Fifteenth of Decem-
                      ber Instant 1670

           Charles Calvert Esqr Leifetn Genll & Cheife Justice
           Phillipp Calvert Esqr Chancellor

           William Talbot Esqr Secretary
     Present Coll William Calvert Esqr
           Baker Brooke
           Tho. Trueman Esqrs Just ices
           Samuell Chew

   The Cort beinge Called.

     John England P!t & The Declaracon in this Cause beinge Called
     George Beckwith Deftf& in Open Cort Read & beinge thought that
     it was not the Declaracon that was First Delivered into the Office (by
     producinge a Copy that came out of the Office) & not Agreeinge wth
     that that should have been the Originall & Controversyes arisinge
     Concerninge the same, by Reason whereof & for prevencon of Fur-
     ther Inconveniences that may happen if this should be past by, there-
     uppon by the Cort here
       It is Ordered, That All Copyes of Declaracons & All other Coppyes
     shall be signed by the Clerke of the Office, Or Elce shall not be
     Deem'd & Taken as a True Copy att any Time after the Adjornemt
     of this prsent Provinciall Cort.