Charles County Court Proceedings, 1674.  613

     saith hee is damnified & hath losse & damage five hundred pounds Liber F
     of tobacco & brings his suite

      Whereupon the plaintife Benjamin Rozer produces in open Court
     this ensueing bill
      Know all men by these presents that I Nicholas Solby of Charles
     County in the Province of Maryland Gentleman doe owe & stand
     justly indebted to Benja Rozer of the same Province Mercht the
     full & just quantity of two thousand pounds of good sound bright
     & large leafe tobacco in Caske to be paid unto the 8d Benjamin
     Rozer his heires Execrs Admrs or Assignes at or before the tenth
     day of Octobr next ensueinge the date hereof Conveniently by the
     waterside neare Portobacco Creeke, To the which paymt well & truely
     to be made I binde my selfe my heires Execrs & Admrs firmely by
     these presents Wittnesse my hand & seale this fifth day of Novemb
     1673                   Nicholas Solby (locus) sigilli
   Wittnes     Nicholas Best
          Philip Gibbon

      Whereupon the worshipfull the Court orders a judgement upon the
     sd bill for two thousand pounds of tobaccoe, to be paid by the sd
     John Allen Admr of all & singular the goods & Chattles of Nicho:
     Solby dec Defendant, to the sd Benjamin Rozer plaintife out of the
     estate of the said Nicholas Solby deceased.

      In a Cause depending betweene William Ward plaintife & Richard
     Clowter Defendant.
      Richard Clowter of Portobacco Carpenter was Attached to Answer
     unto William Ward of a plea that hee render unto him the sume of
     Eight hundred Eighty three pounds of tobacco which to him hee
     oweth & unjustly deteineth.
      And whereupon the sd William by Sam Cressey his Atturney Com-
     plaineth against the Richard, for that whereas the sd Richard by
     his Certaine writeing obligatory, sealed with the seale of him the
     sd Richard whose date is the 3d day of June Anno Domi 1674 Did
     acknowledge himselfe to owe & stand indebted to him the sd William
     in the sd sume of Eight hundred Eighty three pounds of tobacco to
     be paid Conveniently in Charles County aforesd upon demand as by
     the sd Writeing here in Court produced more plainly may appeare,
     yett neverthelesse the sd Richard although often thereunto required
     the sd sume of 883th of tobacco hath not satisfied but doth altogether
     refuse to pay the same, Whereupon the sd William saith hee is
     damnified & hath lost to the value of twelve hundred pounds of
     tobacco & thereupon hee bringeth his suite.
      And the sd Richard Clowter by John Jones his Atturney saith that
     before the perfecting & delivery of the within mentioned bills the
      William Ward did promise & Assume to deliver unto the sd Clowter
     severall bills which were out in the hands of sundry persons by