Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.  165




      Jeremiah Eaton & Mary his wife Recover agt the said Jonathan Liber M M
      Sybrey the sume of             pounds of Tobacco
      for their costs and Charges in this behal fe Expended and that the
      said Jonathan have no benefit by his writ but be in mercy for his
      false complaint & that the said Jeremiah & Mary goe thereof wthout
      day.

      John Quigley In this Cause a non suite was awarded agt the plt
          agt and therefore it is Considered by the Cort that the
    George Brewer    said George Brewer Recover agt the said John
                 Quigley the sume of
                 pounds of Tobacco for his costs and Charges in
                 this behalfe Expended and the said John in
                 mercy &c.

      Thomas Doxey Thomas Griffin late of St Maryes County Attorney
          agt of Henry ffinch of Bristol Marchant was sumöned
    Thomas Griffin to answere unto Thomas Doxey in a plea that he
                 the said Henry ffinch Rendr unto him one man or
                 woman Servant wch to him he oweth and unjustly
                 Deteineth
        And whereupon the said Thomas Doxey by Kenelm Chiseldine
      his Attorney saith that whereas the said Henry ffinch upon the 11th
      day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord 1670, did by his certeine
      writing obligatory sealed with the seale of the said Henry here in
      Cort pduced whose date is the day & yeare abovcwritten did Cove
      nant bargaine and Ingage himself unto the said Thomas Doxey of
      the County of St Maryes to send or consigne unto ye sd Doxey in
      one man or woman servant being aged betwixt sixteene & thirty
      yeares of age upon Consideracon that the aforesayd Doxey doth
      Deliver or pay unto me or my assignes foure hundred pounds of
      sound Marchantable Tobacco and I the said Henry ffinch doe engage
      to send the servant before the Twenty fifth of March next Ensueing
      the date hereof Notwithstanding wch the said Henry ffinch though
      often thereunto Required the said man or woman servant according
      to the Tenor of the said writing hath not consigned or Delivered p. 102
      unto him the said Thomas Doxey but endeavoring and fraudulently
      intending him the said Thomas Doxey the same to Deceive and
      Defraud to him the said Thomas hath and still doth Deny the same
      to Deliver to the Damage of the said Thomas Doxey six Thowsand
      pounds of Tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his suite.
        And the said Thomas by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh and
      defendeth the force and injury when &c and saith that the said
      Thomas Doxey his accön aforesayd ought not to have because he
      saith he is not Attorney of the said Henry ffinch as by the said