Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.  395




       Richard Halletti                          Liber M M
          agt
     Wm Dunkerton
     Walter Tucker & Compa
                        these three causes continued untill next
         agt            Court no returne of the Auditors being
       the same
                            yet made.
     Walter Tucker & Compa
         & Samuel Tucker
         agt
     the same.

     Thomas Lomax John Code late of St Maries County Gent and P. 400
          agt Susanna his wife were attached to answer unto
       John Code and Thomas Lomax Gent in a plea of trespas upon the
       Susanna his wife case.
         And whereupon the Said Thomas by Robert Carvile his Attorny
       Saith that whereas the Said Susanna while she was Sole to witt
       upon the Sixth day of January in the yeare of Our Lord One thou
       sand Six hundred Seventy One in consideration that the said Thomas
       at the Speciall instance and request of her the said Susanna would
       come to the house of her the Said Susanna at Bushwood in St Maries
       County and would asist her in the Settling her papers bookes of
       accompts and other papers and writeings and reside at her Said house
       untill the Same were So perfected and Settled she the said Susanna
       did assume upon her Selfe and to the said Thomas did faithfully
       promise that she the said Susanna when after the Said accompts
       and papers were Settled and perfected she should be thereunto re
       quired would pay to him the said Thomas So much tobacco for his
       Salery for the Settling and perfecting the Said bookes and accompts
       as he the said Thomas in that behal fe should reasonably deserve to
       have And the said Thomas in fact Saith that although he did upon
       the hope of the faithfull performance of the aforesaid promise and
       assumptions of the said Susanna continue and reside at the said
       Susanna's house in the Said imployment of the said Susanna from
       the said Sixth day of January aforesaid untill the twelfth day of
       March One thousand Six hundred Seventy three being Six and
       twenty months and did dureing all that time Settle the papers and
       bookes of accompts of her the said Susanna and did writeing for her
       for Severall other buisnesses and did reasonably deserve for his
       Salery and paines for the same Six thousand nine hundred pounds
       of tobacco Yet the said Susanna while she was Sole nor the said
       John Since their intermarriage the promise and assumption aforesaid
       little regarding but fraudulently intending him the Said Thomas of
       the Said Six thousand nine hundred pounds of tobacco craftily to
       deceive and defraud the same Six thousand nine hundred pounds
       of tobacco nor any part thereof to him the said Thomas have not
       payd or contented though they have been thereunto often required