156  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.




         Liber M M  he the said Richard his Disbursemts for and on the behalf e of the
                 said George should amount unto and Exceed the Disbursemts of him
                 the said George by him on the behalfe of the said Richard so dis
                 bursed as aforesayd. And they the said Henry and Sophia in fact
                 say that the Disbursemts of the said Richard in his life time for and
                 on the behalfe of the said George did and Doe amount to and Ex
                 ceed the sumes by ye said George for and on the behalf e of him the
                 said Richard in his life time disbursed the sume of Eleaven Thow
                 sand and fifteene pounds of Tobacco as they the said Henry and
                 Sophia by wayes and meanes convenient can make appeare. Not
                 withstanding the said George his promise & assumption so as afore
                 sayd to him the said Richard in his life time made little reguarding
                 but Devising and fraudulently intending him the said Richard in
                 his life time and the said Sophia after the death of the said Richard,
                 to whom Execution of the Testamt of the said Richard was com
                 mitted, and them the said Henry and Sophia after the marriage
                 betweene them Celebrated the said sume of Eleaven Thowsand and
                 fifteene pounds of Tobacco to Defraud the said Sume of Eleaven
                 Thowsand and fifteene pounds of Tobacco to him the said Richard
                 in his life time, nor to the said Sophia whilst she was sole, nor
                 to them the said Henry & Sophia after the marriage betweene them
                 Celebrated although often thereunto Required hath not satisfyed
                 but the same to satisfy doth altogether refuse, in the Retardacon of
                 the Execution of the Testamt aforesayd, whereupon they say they
                 are Damnifyed and have losse, to the vallue of Twenty Thowsand
                 pounds of Tobacco, and thereupon they bring their suite and they
                 bring here into Cort the said Testamt of him the said Richard
                 whereby it may appeare to ye Cort here that the said Sophia is Execu
                 trix of the Testamt of the said Richard and thereof hath the
                 Administration.
                  And the aforesayd George by Mathew Ward his Attorney cometh
                 and Defendeth the wrong and injury aforesayd when &c and saith
                 that he did not assume and promise in manner and forme as the
              p. 94 said Henry & Sophia above against him have Declared and of this
                 he puts himself upon the Country and the said Sophia and Henry
                 likewise
                  Therefore Comaund is given to the Sheriff of St Maryes County
                 that he cause to come before the Justices of the Provincial Cort at
                 the Citty of St Maryes on the Eleaventh day of November next being
                 the first day of the same Court twelve &c by whom &c who neither
                 &c because as well &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 wch said Twelveth day of November in the 42th yeare of the