238  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.





          Liber M M   or his certaine Attorny heirs executrs admrs at or upon the tenth day
                  of December next ensueing the date hereof in some convenient place
                  in Great Choptanck River to which payment well and truly to be
                  made he bound himselfe his heirs executors administratrs firmly by
                  these presents Notwithstanding which the Said George Cooley the
                  Said Summe of Six thousand pounds of tobacco according to the
                  tenor of the Said bill hath not paid though often thereunto required
                  but the same to pay hath altogether denyed and Still doth deny
                  whereupon the said John Saith he is dampnified eight thousand
                  pounds of tobacco and thereupon he brings his suite
                    And whereupon the Said George by Vincent Lowe his Attorny
                  doth come and defend the force and injury when &c and prayeth
                  heareing of the writing aforesaid and it is read unto him he prayeth
                  also heareing of the Condition of the said writeing and it is read
                  unto him in these words The Condition of this present Obligation is
                  Such that if the abovebounden John ifrench and George Cooley
                  joyntly and Severally or either of them shall well & truly pay or
                  deliver or cause to be paid or delivered unto the abovesaid John
                  Ingram or to his true and lawfull Attorny heirs executors & adminis
                  tratrs two able men Servants between the age of twenty and thirty
                  in the County of Talbott at or before the twentith day of Decem
              p. 173  ber next ensueing the date hereof for the whole time of Service
                  as they come into the Country for according to the custome thereof
                  that then the abovesaid Obligation to be Void and of none effect
                  and for default thereof to Stand in full force Virtue and Strenght
                  as wittnesse Our hands and Seales the day and yeare abovewritten
                    Which words being read and heard the said George Cooley Saith
                  that he hath well and truly performed the (Covenant) Condition of
                  the said Obligation and of this he prayeth may be enquired of by the
                  Country and the said John also therefore Comãnd is given to the
                  Sheriff of St Maries County that he cause to come here twelve &c.
                    Att which day to witt the 16th day of April Came aswell the Said
                  John as the Jurors of that jury being impannelled & sworne but the
                  Said George Came not but made default wherefore it is considered by
                  the Court here that judgment passe against the said George & that the
                  said John recover against him the full quantity of
                  pounds of tobacco for his costs and charges in thes cause expended
                  and laid Out and the Said George Cooley in mercy &c.

                  Thomas Mountford
                      agt      Continued untill next Court.
                  Samuel Hatton
                  Thomas Bland
                      agt   Continued untill next Court.
                  Thomas Gant