Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.  157




       Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1673. came aswell the Liber M M
       said Henry Beedle & Sophia his wife by John Morecroft their
       Attorney as the said George Wells by Mathew Ward his Attorney
       and the Jurors of that Jury likewise came to wit William Slade John
       Askun John Creycroft William Baker John Camell Thomas Warner
       John Nuthall Thomas Vaughan Thomas Gannt Richard Smith John
       Gittings and Thomas Doxey who to say the truth in the prmises
       being elected tryed and sworne upon their oathes doe say that they
       finde for the Defendt wth costs of suite wherefore it is considered
       by the COrt here that the said George Wells Recover agt the said
       Henry Beedle & Sophia his wife the sume of
       pounds of Tobacco for his costs and Charges in this behalf e Ex
       pended and the said Henry and Sophia be in mercy for their false
       complaint and that the said George goe thereof without day.
       Mr Carvile       11th Nov: 1673
        I pray appeare for me at the suite of John Charlesworth in a plea
       of Trespas on the case, take coppy of the Declaration and put in such
       plea thereunto as you shall thinke fit and for soe doeing this shalbe
       your warrt
      To W Robert Carvile one of the Yor loving frend
        Attorneys of ye Provincial Cort The marke of
        at St Maryes John Baker    Mathias Decosta.

       Thomas Jones Mathew Nelson late of Calvert County was at
           agt tached to answere unto Thomas Jones one of the
     Mathew Nelson    Attorneys of this Cort, according to the libertyes
                  and previledges &c in a plea of Trespas on ye case.
        And whereupon the said Thomas in his pp pson sayth that the
       said Mathew being about the 21st day of Aprill in the yeare of our
       Lord 1671 indebted to the said Thomas in the sume of Twelve hun
       dred pounds of Tobacco did in consideracoñ thereof assume upon
       himself and to the said Thomas faithfully promise that he the said
       Mathew the said suffie of Twelve hundred pounds of Tobacco to p. 95
       him the said Thomas when thereunto Required would well and
       truly pay yet notwithstanding the said Mathew his promise and
       assumption aforesayd little reguarding but Devising and fraudulently
       intending him the said Thomas in this behalfe to Deceive the said
       sume of Twelve hundred pounds of Tobacco to him the said Thomas
       though often thereunto required hath not payd but the same to him
       to pay hath hitherto Denyed and as yet doth Deny, whereupon he
       saith he is Damnifyed and hath losse to the vallue of Two Thowsand
       pounds of Tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his suite.
        And the said Mathew by John Rousby his Attorney cometh and
       defendeth the wrong and injury aforesayd when &c and saith that
       he did not promise & assume upon himself in manner and forme as