154  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.




         Liber M M   Defends the force and injury aforesayd when &c and saith that he
                 did not promise or assume upon himself in manner and forme as
                 the said Henry hath above Declared agt him and of this he puts him
                 self upon ye Country and the said Henry likewise.
                   Therefore comaund is given to the Sheriff of St Maryes County
                 that he Cause to come before the Justices of the Provincial Cott at
                 the Citty of St Maryes on the Eleaventh day of November next
                 being the first day of the same Cort Twelve &c by whom &c who
                 neither &c because aswell &c to Recognize &c and the same day is
                 given to both ptyes. At wch said Eleaventh day of November the
                 Provincial Court aforesayd was by the writ of Adjournmt of the
                 said Lord Proprietary Adjourned untill the next day being the
                 Twelveth day of the same November.
                   At web said Twelveth day of November in the 42th yeare of the
                 Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoque Domini 1673. came aswell the
                 said Henry Spry by John Morecroft his Attorney as the said Hugh
                 ffrench by Robert Carvile his Attorney and the Jurors of that Jury
                 likewise came to wit Thomas Alanson Morgan Jones Philip Baggeas
                 Nicholas Carre Curtis ifietcher Thomas Knighton John Bayley Bryan
                 Dayley Abraham Roades Patrick iforrest ffrancis Wyne and William
                 Harper who to say the truth in the prmises being Elected tryed &
                 sworne and the Court making full Examinacon into the prmises, and
                 the Defendt pleaded that he had past a bill for the sd Debt, and the
                 pit owning the same but that he had lost it, and so was forced to
                 sue upon an assumpsit It was by the Cort here considered that the
                 said Henry Spry Recover against the said Hugh french the said
                 sume of Two Thowsand foure hundred pounds of Tobacco his
                 Debt aforesayd, and that Each pson beare his owne Charges and
                 that Henry Spry pay the Jury Tenn pounds of Tobacco p man so
                 both ptyes were by the Court here dismist without further day.

             p. 92 John   Goldsmith A writ of Attachmt issueing out of this Cort agt
                     agt the goods and Chattells of Richard Wicker at the
                 Richard Wicker suite of John Goldsmith and the Sheriff having
                 Retorned the said writ of Attachmt Executed and appraysed by
                 John Grace & John Rosewell to say three Cowes and Calves at six
                 teene hundred & fifty pounds of Tobacco. one young heifer at Two
                 hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco. Two Gunns at three hundred
                 pounds of Tobacco. Two small Chests without locks at Eighty
                 pounds of Tobacco One ould hamacke at forty pounds of Tobacco.
                 One peice of a Deare skynn at fifteene pounds of Tobacco. one
                 Barrow shoate at fifty pounds of Tobacco one ould shot bagg at
                 five pounds of Tobacco. in all amounting to the sume of Two thow
                 sand three hundred and ninety pounds of Tobacco, web said Goods
                 remaine in the hands of the Sheriff of St Maryes County.
                   And now here at this day to wit the Twelveth day of November