Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674. 417

       further Service to the said William and Set free And the Said Nicho- Liber M M
       las haveing then to serve him the said William seaven months and
       Six dayes residue of the said two yeares and nine months, the said
       William in fact saith that the said Seven months & Six dayes service
       of the said Nicholas to the said Wm would have beene well worth
       three thousand pounds of tobacco Notwithstanding which the said
       Richard Moy his promise and assumption so as aforesaid made not
       regarding but deviseing and fraudulently intending him the said Wil
       liam in this behalfe craftily & Subtilly to defraud and deceive the
       same three thousand pounds of tobacco to him the said William
       though often demanded hath not paid or given any satisfaction for
       the same but the same to pay hath denyed and yet doth deny & refuse
       whereupon the said William Saith he is dampnified and hath losse
       to the Value of five thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he
       bringeth his suite.
        And the said Richard by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh &
       defendeth the force and injury when &c and saith he did not assume
       upon himselfe and to the said William make Such promise in manner
       and forme as the said Wm hath above against him declared and of
       this he putts himselfe upon the Country and the said William like
       wise. Therefore it is comãnded the Sheriff of St Maries County
       that he cause to come here twelve &c
        Now here at this day to witt the 12th day of December in the
       43th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said William
       Baker by his Attorny and the said Richard Moy by his Attorny and
       the jurors of that jury came likewise to wit Gerard Sly George
       Dundas Joseph Edloe William Harper Peter Watts George Gunnell
       Cornelius Corneil John Bailey Thomas Gant John Hollius Thomas
       Doxey and Mathew Stone who being impannelled Sumöned and
       Sworne to Say the truth in the prmisses upon their Oathes doe Say
       they find for the plaintiff two thousand pounds of tobacco with costs
       of Suite therefore it is considered by the Court here that the said
       William recover against the said Richard aswell the said sume of
       two thousand pounds of tobacco damages occasioned by the trespas
       aforesaid as also the summe of pounds of tobacco
       costs of Suite. and the said Richard in mercy.
        I doe hereby appoint Robert Carvile One of the Attornyes of the
       Provinciall Court to appeare for me at the suite of Wm Baker in
       an action of trespas upon the case and to take Coppy of the declara
       tion & putt in such plea as he shall thinke fitt & for So doeing this
       shall be his Sufficient warrant as wittnes my hand this 21th of Sep
       tember 1674
          Testes                         Rich: Moy
       Robert Ridgely
        Peter Eure.
        I doe appeare by Virtue of this warrant of Attorny for Richard p.
       Moy deft at the suite of William Baker plaintiff in an action of tres