148  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.




         Liber M M   informed of the truth of the prmises may doe theirin as to Justice
                 apperteineth.
                   And the said George Wells being here prsent in Cort by ordr of the
                 said Justices did in open Cort acknowledge himself to owe and stand
                 indebted unto the Right honoble the Lord Proprietary in the sume of
                 five hundred pounds of lawfull money of England, and Thomas Taylor
                 and John Wells his security did likewise acknowledge themselves Re
                 spectively to owe and stand indebted to the said Lord Proprietary
                 in the suñie of Two hundred and fifty pounds of like lawfull money
                 of England apeice, To be leavyed of their or any of their Respective
                 goods and Chattells lands or Tenements for the use of the said Lord
                 Proprietary his heires or successors upon failer of the Condition fol
                 lowing that is to say the condicion of this Recognizance is such that
                 if the said George Wells shalbe and appeare at the house of John
                 Larkin in Ann Arundell County on the fifteenth day of December
                 next and there attend upon Nathaniel Heathcot & Robert ifranklyn
              p. 86 auditors appointed to state and Examine the account of the said
                 George wch to Render to Henry Beedle and Sophia his wife he ought
                 as aforesayd and so from day to day attend the said auditors as they
                 shall appointe untill they have fully stated and adjusted the said ac
                 count and also afterwards shalbe and psonally appeare at the next
                 Provincial when the said auditors shall Retorne ye said account
                 Examined & stated as aforesayd, and their if it shalbe so found that
                 the said George Wells shalbe condemned then that he shall pay the
                 CondemnacOn or Deliver himself to the prison of the Sheriff of St
                 Maryes County their to Remaine untill he shall pforme the ordr of his
                 Lopps Justices in that behalfe then the said Recognizance to be voyd
                 otherwayes to stand in force.
                   And his Lopps Justices doe further ordr that the Defendt George
                 Wells shall have Recourse to the bookes and paps belonging to the
                 Estates of Richard Wells senr & Richard Wells Junr deceased that
                 are now in the hands of Robert Carvile one of the Attornyes of this
                 Cort, and that are confest in the answere of Mr Henry Beedle & Sophia
                 his wife at the Chamber of the said Carvile in the said Citty of
                 St Maryes, and it is by the Cort further ordered that the said Beedle
                 Cause the said Bookes, and paps to be brought before the said Auditors
                 on the said fifteenth day of December next and so from day to day
                 as the said Auditors shall ordr & apointe.

                   Commission issued according to ye effect & force of ye foregoing
                 Judgt to Nathaniel Heathcot & Robert ffranklyn to audite ye accts afsd.

                   Shipped by the grace of God in good ordr & well Condicioned by
                 me Richard Wells for the propper account of my self and my Brother
                 Mr George Wells in and upon the good ship called the Baltamore of
                 London whereof is Master under god for this prsent voyadge John