244  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.




         Liber M M   hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco also due and oweing from
                 the said ffrancis to the said Demetrius all which said Severall bills
                 in the whole due amount unto the Summe of Six thousand and
                 eighty three pounds of tobacco the Said Thomas Mountfort did
                 assume upon himself e and to the Said Demetrius did faithfully prom
                 ise that he the said Thomas when thereunto demanded would returne
                 the Said Severall bills unto him the Said Demetrius in like manner
                 as he received them from him the Said Demetrius or the tobacco due
                 from the Said persons upon the Said Severall bills So Soon as he
                 should receive it of them and the Said Demetrius in fact Saith that
                 he trusting to the faithfull promise of the Said Thomas did deliver
                 unto him the said Thomas the aforesaid Severall bills amounting in
                 the whole to the aforesaid Summe of Six thousand & eighty three
                 pounds of tobacco as aforesaid Notwithstanding which the Said
                 Thomas Mountfort his promise and assumption in that behalfe not
                 regarding but endeavouring and fraudulently intending him the Said
                 Demetrius to defraud & deceive the Said bills as aforesaid according
                 to his promise hath not returned nor the tobacco due upon the same
                 hath paid though often thereunto required but the Same to pay or
                 deliver againe to him the Said Demetrius hath altogether denyed and
                 Still doth deny to the damage of him the Said Demetrius eight thou
                 sand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he brings his Suite.
                   And the Said Thomas Mounfort by George Parker his Attorny
                 cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth
                 liberty of Speaking thereunto untill the first day of the next Pro
                 vinciall Court and the same day is given to both partyes.
                   At which day to witt the Sevententh day of April in the two &
                 fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the aforesaid
                 Demetrius Cartwright by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny and Offered
                 himselfe against the said Thomas Mount fort of & upon the premisses
                 and the said Thomas Mount fort Came not but made default where
                 fore it is considered by the Court here that the said Thomas Mount-
                 fort haue judgment awarded agt him by default and that the Said
                 Demetrius Cartwright recover against the Said Thomas Mountfort
                 aswell the full quantity of Six thousand and eighty three pounds of
                 tobacco his debt aforesaid as also the full quantity of three hundred
                 and eight pounds of tobacco for his costs and charges in that behalfe
                 laid Out and expended.

            p. 178 James Nutthall Marke Cordea late of St Maries County otherwise
                     agt called Marke Cordea Gent was Sumöned to answer
               Marke Cordea unto James Nutthall in a plea that he render unto
                            him One Negro man betweene the age of fifteen &
                            twenty yeares of Sound & perfect limbs and body
                            which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth.
                   And whereupon the Said James Nutthall by Kenelm Cheseldyn
                 his Attorny Saith that whereas the Said Marke Cordea the Sixth