206       Provincial Court Proceedings, 16 73/4.

         Liber M M John   England & Tho Jones The Defendt filed his plea this Court the
                     agt Cause to Come to tryall ye next Court.
             Randall Revell

                 Demetrius Cartwright Henry Kircoven late of Ann Arundell County
                     agt otherwise Called Henry Kircoven of the
                 Henry Kircoven Clifts in Calvert County planter was Suth
                 oned to answere unto Demetrius Cartwright in a plea that he Rendr
                 unto him the sum of Eight hundred pounds of Tobacco wth to him
                 he oweth & unjustly Deteineth
                   And whereupon the said Demetrius by Keneim Chiseldyne his At
                 torney saith that whereas the said Henry the 27th day of October in
                 the yeare of or Lord 1671 by his Certeine writing obligatory sealed
                 the seale of the sd Henry here in Court pduced whose date is the
                 same day & yeare abovewritten did acknowledge himself to owe &
                 stand indebted unto the sd Demetrius Cartwright of St Leonards in
                 Calvert County Inholder the full & Just sume of 800l of good sound
                 marchantable Tobacco and Casque to be payd at some Convenient
                 place in the Clifts in the County aforesayd on Demaund unto the
                 said Demetrius Cartwright his heires Executors Admrs or assignes
                 upon Demaund, to ye wch paymt well & truly to be made he did binde
                 himself e his heires Executors and Admrs firmly by these prsents,
                 Notwthstanding wch the sd Henry the sd sume of 800l Tob though
                 often Required hath not payd according to the Tenor of the said
                 bill but the same to pay altogether Denyes to the Damage of the
                 said Demetrius Twelve hundred pounds of Tobacco and thereupon
                 he bringeth his suite.
                   And the said Henry Kircoven by Thomas Bland his Attorney
                 Cometh and Defendeth the force & Injury when &c & saith nothing
                 in barre of the sd Demetrius of the Debt aforesayd wherefore it is
                 Considered by the Court here that the said Demetrius Cartwright
                 Recover agt the said Henry Kircoven aswell the said Eight hundred
                 pounds of Tobacco his Debt afd as also the sume of three hundred &
                 forty pounds Tob for costs & ye sd Henry in mercy &c

             p. 144 John Ingram
                                  agt
                 George Cowley These Two Causes are Continued untill the
                 Thomas Mountfort next Provincial Court.
                     agt
                 Samuel Hatton

                 Richard Edelen James Thompson late of Calvert County otherwise
                     agt called James Thompson of Calvert County in the
                 James Thompson Province of Maryland was sumoned to answere
                 unto Richard Edelen in a plea that he Rendr unto him the sume of