140  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.




          Liber M M Richard Hallet

                  agt         These foure Causes for Special Reasons the
                 Nicholas Wyat             .
                              Cort thereunto moving are continued untill the
                 The same            .
                       next Provincial Cort.
                   agt
                 The same
                 Virlinda Stone
                                  agt
                 Edmond Lindsey

                 Tho: Kendall George Munrow late of Calvert County otherwise
                 agt called George Munrow of St Maryes County Min-
                 George Munrow ister was suthoned to answere unto Thomas Ken
                             dall in a plea that he Render unto him foure
                             Thowsand and fifty pounds of Tobacco wch to him
                             he oweth and unjustly Deteineth &c
                   And whereupon the said Thomas by Robert Carvile his Attorney
               saith that whereas the said George upon the one and Twentieth day
                 of August in the 40th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq
                 Domini 1671 by his certeine writing obligatory web ye said Thomas
                 with the seale of the aforesayd George signed here brings into Cort
                 whose date is the day and yeare abovesaid did acknowledge himself
                 to owe and stand indebted to the said Thomas the said sume of foure
                 Thowsand and fifty pounds of Tobacco and Casque to be payd to
                 the said Thomas at some Convenient place in Talbot County at or
                 upon the Tenth day of October next Ensueing the date of the said
                 writing obligatory yet the said George though often Demanded the
                 said sume of foure Thowsand and fifty pounds of Tobacco hath not
                 Rendered or payd but the same to Render and pay as yet doth Deny
                 and unjustly Deteynes, whereupon the said Thomas saith he is
                 Damnifyed and hath losse to the vallue of five Thowsand pounds
                 of Tobacco, and thereupon he bringeth his suite
                   And the said George by Kenelm Chiseldine his Attorney comes
                 and Defends the force and injury when &c and saith that the said
                 Thomas his accoñ aforesayd ought not to have because he saith that
                 he the said George the bill aforesayd to the said Thomas did make
                 and seale through the hardnes of Imprisonmt, and this he is Ready
                 to verrify whereupon he prayeth Judgemt whether the said Thomas
                 ought to have his accoñ aforesayd against him.
                   And the aforesayd Thomas saith that he by any thing before
                 alledged ought not to be Debarred from having his accoñ aforesayd
                 because he saith that the aforesayd George at the time of the making
                 of the said bill was of his owne Right at large and the same bill of
                 his owne meere and volluntary will to the same Thomas did make
                 and seale and not through the hardnes of Imprisonmt as the afore
                 sayd George hath above alledged and this he prayes may be Enquired