412  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.




         Liber M M I William Stacey of Calvert County doe appoint Robert Ridgely
                 one of the Attornyes of the Provinciall Court to appeare for me and
                 Mary my wife executrix of Richard Stacey deceased at suite of John
                 Mayo in a plea of debt for eleven hundred eighty foure pounds of
                 tobacco and to plead such plea to the same as he shall thinke fitt and
                 for So doeing this shall be his warrant wittnes my hand and seale
                 the 7th of October 1674. William Stacey (sealed)
                                Witnes
                   the marke of
                 Thomas T White
                   the marke of
               Eliz:   Turner.

                 George Beckwith John Allen late of Charles County otherwise called
                   agt John Allen of Charles County in the Province of
              John Allen    Maryland Merchant was SumOned to answer
                            unto George Beckwith Gent of a plea that he
                            render unto him the sume of twenty three pounds
                             Sterling which to him he oweth and unjustly
                            deteineth.
                   And whereupon the said George by Robert Carvile his Attorny
                 Saith that whereas the said John upon the eleventh day of May in
                 the yeare of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seventy foure 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 abovesaid did confesse & acknowledge himselfe to owe and
                 Stand indebted to him the said George in the full and just Sume of
                 twenty three pounds Sterling lawfull mony of England to be paid
                 to him the said George at or before the twentith day of August next
                 ensueing the date of the said bill Yet notwithstanding the said John
                 the said sume of twenty three pounds Sterling to him the said George
              though often thereunto requested according to the tenor of the said
                 bill hath not paid or satisfied but the same to pay and satisfie hath
                 denyed and refused and Still doth deny and refuse to the damage of
                 him the said George thirty pounds Sterling and thereupon he bringeth
                 his Suite.
                   And the said John by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh &
                 defendeth the force and injury when &c & prayeth liberty to imparle
                 hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted him the same
                 day is given to both parties
                   Now here at this day to wit the 14th day of December in the 43th
                 yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said George by
                 Robert Carvile his Attorny and offered himselfe against the said
                 John in the plea aforesaid but the said John came not but made
                 default therefore it is considered by the Court here that the said
                 George recover against the said John Allen the sume of twenty