Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.  303




       And whereupon the said Benjamin by Robert Carvile his Attorny Liber M M
     Saith that whereas the Said Richard the One and twentith day of
     June in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seventy
     three by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of
     him the said Richard and have in Court produced whose date is the
     day and yeare abovesaid did acknowledge to be holden and firmly
     bounden unto the said Benjamin the full and just Summe of two
     hundred pounds Sterling to be paid to the said Benjamin or to his
     certaine Attorny his executors administrs or assignes for the which
     payment well and truly to be made he did bind himselfe his heirs
     executors and administrators firmly by those presents Neverthelesse
     the said Richard the said Summe of two hundred pounds Sterling
     to him the said Benjamin according to the tenor of the Said writeing
     Obligatory to him the said Benjamin Solley hath not paid though p. 225
     often thereunto required but the sume to him to pay hath denyed
     and as yet doth deny whereupon he Saith he is damnified and hath
     losse to the value of One hundred pounds Sterling and thereupon
     he bringeth his suite.
       And the Said Richard by     his Attorny cometh &
     defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth heareing of the
     writeing Obligatory and it is read unto him he prayeth also heare
     ing of the Condition of the said writeing and it is read unto him in
     these words The Condition of this Obligation is Such That whereas
     the Said Benjamin Solley hath entred into a certaine bond or Obli
     gacon together with the Said Richard Speed for the payment of
     thirty One pounds five shillings and two pence Sterling unto Charles
     Calvert or his Order Now if the abovebound Richard Speed his
     heirs executor[s] or assignes shall well and truly Save harmiesse
     and Keepe indempnified the Said Benjamin Solley his heirs executrs
     administrators & assignes and also all their goods chattells lands and
     tenements for or by reason of the Said bond which beareth even date
     with these prsents that then this present Obligation shall be void and
     of none effect otherwise to stand remaine and be in full power and
     force.
       Now here at this day to witt the 12th day of May in the 42th yeare
     of the Dominion of Caecilius &c the Same Sheriff returnes that the
     Said Richard Speed is not found in his Bailiwick whereupon the
     Said Benjamin prayeth attachment against the goods and Chattells
     of the Said Richard according to an Act of Assembly in Such case
     made and provided and it is granted unto him by the Court here.

       Upon the Petition of Henry Everitt That whereas he being a
     Servant to Mr George Beckwith and hath Served him eight yeares
     and as much as Since last ffebruary and is One and twenty yeares
     of age and Omitting Six weekes of his time for which neglect his
     Said master demands two yeares Service and that he was adjudged