Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.  373




      pay unto the Said Thomas Gant the summe of Seaven hundred Liber M M
      Sixty and One pounds of tobacco for his costs and charges in this
      behalfe laid Out and expended and the Said Thomas Bland in
      mercy.

      James Beamont John Allen Gent High Sheriff of Charles County
         agt otherwise called John Allen of Charles County
    John Allen   Merchant was Sumoned to answer unto James
                 Beaumont of Boston in New-England of a plea that
                 he render unto him twenty eight thousand nine hun
                 dred and forty pounds of tobacco which to him he
                 oweth and unjustly deteineth
       And whereupon the Said James by Robert Carvile his Attorny
      Saith that whereas the Said John upon the One and twentith day of
      July in the yeare of Our Lord 1673 by his certaine bill or writeing
      Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of him the Said John and here in
      Court produced whose date is the day and yeare aforesaid did con
      fesse and acknowledge himself e to owe and Stand indebted unto the
      Said James Beaumont in the full and just quantity of twenty eight
      thousand nine hundred and forty pounds of good Sound and mer
      chantable tobacco and caske to conteine the same to be paid to the
      Said James Beamont his heirs executrs administrators or certaine
      Attorny before the tenth day of October next ensueing the date of
      the Said bill in Some convenient place in the said County Yet not
      withstanding the Said John Allen the said Summe of twenty eight
      thousand nine hundred and forty pounds of tobacco to him the Said
      James according to the Said writeing Obligatory though thereunto
      requested hath not hitherto contented or paid but the Same to pay p. 282
      hath and Still doth deny and refuse to pay to the damage of him
      the Said James forty thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he
      bringeth his Suite.
       And the Said John by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh and
      defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
      Speakeing hereunto untill the first day of the next Provinciall Court
      and the Same day is given to both parties.
       Att which day to witt the eighth day of December in the three and
      fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c the Said Court was
      by his Lopps writt of adjournment adjourned untill the next day
       Att which day to witt the ninth day of December in the yeare
      aforesaid came the Said James by Robert Carvile his Attorny and
      offered himselfe against the Said John in the plea aforesaid but the
      Said John Allen came not but made default. therefore it is consid
      ered by the Court here that the Said James recover against the Said
      John Allen aswell the said Summe of twenty eight thousand nine
      hundred and forty pounds of tobacco his debt aforesaid as also the
      Summe of nine hundred and Seaven pounds of tobacco for his costs