Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.  285




       notwithstanding which the said Benjamin the said sume of four- Liber M M
       teene thousand pounds of tobacco to him the said Charles although
       often thereunto required hath not paid but the same to pay hath
       refused and denyed and as yet doth refuse and deny to the damage
       of the said Charles six thousand pounds of tobacco And thereupon
       he bringeth his suite
         And the said Benjamin by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh and p. 209
       defendeth the force and injury when &c and saith that he hath
       nothing to say in Barr of the said action whereby the said Charles
       remaineth against the said Benjamin for the said fourteene thou
       sand pounds of tobacco herein undefended therefore it is considered
       of the Court here that the said Charles recover against him the
       said Benjamin the said summe of fourteene thousand pounds of
       tobacco and the said Benjamin in mercy &c but execution is hereby
       stayed untill the 13th of October next.
         I doe hereby impower you to appeare for me in the Provinciall
       Court in an action brought against me by the Honble Charles Cal-
       vent Esq for fourteene thousand pounds of tobacco and to confesse
       judgment in my name for the same and for your so doeing this
       shall be your warnt Wittnes my hand this 14th day of May 1674:
       To Robert Carvile One of the Attornyes  Ben: Solley.
         of the Provinciall Court
           Testis Robert Ridgely.

      Charles Calvent Esq Benjamin Soiley late of St Maries County
           agt otherwise called Benjamin Soiley of the
       Benjamin Solley     County of St Maries in the Province of Mary
       land merchant was suthoned to answer unto
       his excellency Charles Calvert Govennour of
       Maryland and cheife justice of the Provinciall
       Court according to the liberties and priviledges
       to such like Cheife justices and Other ministers of the said Court
       allowed of a plea that he render unto him the full and just sume of
       two hundred pounds Sterling to say of lawfull mony of England
       which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth
         And whereupon the said Charles Calvert by Robert Ridgely his
       Attorny saith that whereas the said Benjamin together with One
       certaine Richard Speed by the name of Richard Speed Master of
       the Shipp Agreement of Bristoll the 21th day of June in the yeare of
       our Lord 1673 did by their certaine writeing Obligatory sealed with
       the seales of them the said Benjamin and Richard and here in
       Court pduced whose date is the day and yeare abovesaid acknowledge
       themselves to be holden and firmly bound unto his said Excellency
       Charles Calvert Governour of Maryland aforesaid in the full and
       just sume of two hundred pounds Sterling to say of lawfull mony
       of England to be paid to the said Charles Calvert or to his certaine