378       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.

         Liber M M  though often thereunto required the said summe of eight hun
                 dred and fifty pounds of tobacco to him the said Charles in his life
                 time hath not paid nor the said John Since his death to whom
                 administration of all and Singular the goods and Chattells which were
                 the Said Williams at the time of his Death Since his death hath been
                 Committed but the same to pay hath and Still doth deny to the dam
                 age of the said Charles twelve hundred pounds of tobacco & there
                 upon he bringeth his Suite
                  And the said John Allen by Samuel Cressey his Attorny cometh &
                 defendeth the force and injury when &c and Saith that the Said
             p. 286 Charles his Action against him Ought not to have because he Saith
                 that he hath fully administred all and Singular the Goods Chattells
                 Rights & Creditts which were of the Said William and to his hands
                 ever came and this he is ready to averr.
                  Now have at this day to witt the ninth day of December in the
                 43th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said Charles
                 Delaroch by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny and Offered himself e
                 agt the Said John Allen but the said John came not but made default
                 Therefore it is considered by the Court here that the Said Charles
                 recover against the estate of the Said William Jackson in the hands
                 of the Said John Allen the said Summe of eight hundred and fifty
                 pounds of tobacco his debt aforesaid.

                Charles Delaroch John Allen late of Charles County Sheriff Ad
                     agt ministrator of the goods and Chattells of Wi!-
                 John Allen admr liam Jackson deceased was Suthoned to answer
                  William Jackson Charles Delaroch in a plea that he render unto
                              him the summe of Seaven hundred Seventy Six
                              pounds of tobacco wch from him he unjustly
                              deteineth.
                  And whereupon the Said Charles by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At
                 torny Saith that whereas the Said William in his life time the third
                 day of May in the yeare 1673 did by his certaine writeing Obligatory
                 Sealed with the Seale of the Said William here in Court produced
                 whose date is the same day & yeare abovewritten acknowledge him
                 selfe to owe and Stand indebted unto the Said Charles of the Said
                 County and Province the Summe of Seaven hundred Seventy Six
                 pounds of tobacco in leafe Sound and good in caske and for the paymt
                 thereof well and truly to be made at Some convenient place in Fe
                 tuxent River at or upon the tenth day of October next ensueing the
                 date thereof unto the Said Charles Delaroch his heirs executors
                 administrators or assignes did bind himself his heirs executors ad
                 ministrators and assignes firmly by those presents Notwithstanding
                 which the Said William the said summe of Seaven hundred Seventy
                 Six pounds of tobacco according to the tenor of his said bill though
                 often thereunto required in his life time hath not paid nor the said