Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.  393




       thousand One hundred Sixty Seaven pounds of tobacco for his costs Liber M M
       and charges in this behalf e laid Out and expended against the said
       John Bowles.

      John Peerce John Code late of St Maries County in the Province of
        agt Maryland Gent was attached to answer unto John
      John Code Peerce Chirurgeon of a plea of trespas upon the case.
        And whereupon the said John Peerce by Robert Carvile his Attorny
       complaineth that whereas the Said John Code the ninetenth day of
       May in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seventy
       two and some time before did greviously languish and was taken
       and held with a certaine disease or Sicknesse called a Seasoning at
       Pyney Point in St Georges Hundred in St Maries County aforesaid
       the Said John Code did send for the Said John Peerce and upon
       the Said ninetenth day of May at Pyney Point aforesaid in considera
       tion that he the Said John Peerce at the Speciall instance & request
       of him the Said John Code would heale and Cure the Said John
       Code of the Said desease called the Seasoning and attend him the
       Said John Code in his Sicknesse did assume upon himselfe and to
       the Said John Peerce did faithfully promise that he the aforesaid
       John Code for his healeing and Cure of his desease aforesaid and
       for the Said John Peerce his attendance on him in Sicknesse afore
       said when he should be thereunto required would pay unto him the
       Said John Peerce Such a Summe of tobacco as he the said John
       Peerce in that behalfe should reasonably deserve to have And the
       Said John Peerce in fact Saith that he giveing creditt to the promise
       and assumption of the Said John Code he the Said John Peerce upon
       the Said ninetenth day of May and upon Severall other dayes and
       times dureing the time the Said John Code lay Sicke which was for
       above Six weekes after the Said ninetenth day of May aforesaid did
       constantly Visitt and attend the Said John Code and did administer
       to and make compound and provid for him the said John Code divers
       medicines planters drinkes Cordialls and other wholesome and fitt
       things to cure the said John Code of the Said distemper aforesaid
       called a Seasoning as aforesaid and though the said John Peerce did
       Cure and recover the Said John Code of the Sickness aforesaid and
       did reasonably deserve for the Said Cure to have the summe often
       thousand pounds of tobacco Yet the said John Code his promise and
       assumption aforesaid little regarding but plotting and fraudulently
       intending him the said John Peerce of the Said tenn thousand pounds
       of tobacco craftily to deceive and defraud the said sume of ten thou
       sand pounds of tobacco or any parcell thereof unto him the Said
       John Peerce although unto this by him the said John Peerce after
       the Care aforesaid the said John Code was thereunto often required p.
       according to his promise and assumption aforesaid hath not paid or
       to him the said John Peerce anywayes for the same contented but