424  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.




         Liber M M And whereupon the said Nicholas and Peter by Robert Ridgely
                 their Attorny Say that whereas the said William upon the five and
                 twentith day of April in the One and fortith yeare of the Dominion
                 of Caecilius &c Annoq Doth One thousand six hundred Seventy
                 three by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of
                 him the said William and by the said Nicholas and Peter here in
                 Court produced whose date is the day and yeare abovesaid did bind
                 himse!fe his heirs executors administrators or assignes to pay or
                 cause to be paid unto the said Nicholas and Peter or unto their heirs
                 executors or lawfull Attorny the full summe of five thousand three
                 hundred Seventy nine pounds of good Sound merchantable leafe
                 tobacco & caske to be paid upon demand in Great or Little Chop
                 tanck Rivers Notwithstanding which the said William Worgan the
                 aforesaid Summe of five thousand three hundred seventy nine pounds
                 of tobacco though often thereunto required to them the said Nicholas
                 and Peter or either of them hath not paid but the same to pay hitherto
             p.424   refuseth and denyeth whereupon they Say they are dampnified and
                 have losse to the Value of five thousand pounds of tobacco. and
                 thereupon they bring their Suite.
                   Now here at this day to wit the ninth day of December in the
                 three & fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c the Sheriff
                 of Dorchester County maketh returne that the said William Worgan
                 is not found in his Bayliwick whereupon the said Nicholas & Peter
                 prayed an attachment against the goods and Chattells of the said
                 William according to an Act of Assembly in that case made & pro
                 vided and it is granted unto them by the Court here.

                Christopher Rousby Jonathan Squire Administrator of the Goods
                      agt and Chattells of John Monecroft late of the
                 Jonathan Squire admr Citty of St Maries Gent deceased was at
                   John Morecroft tached to answer unto Christopher Rousby
                                of Calvert County Gent of a plea of trespas
                                upon the case.
                   And whereupon the said Christopher by John Rousby his Attorny
                 Saith that Whereas the said John Morecroft in his life time was
                 indebted unto the said Christopher for divers goods and merchan
                 dizes to him sold and delivered at divers dayes and times that is to
                 say from the twentith day of May in the yeare of Our Lord One
                 thousand Six hundred & Seventy untill the Six and twentith day of
                 September One thousand six hundred Seventy two the summe of
                 eight hundred and nine pounds of tobacco, and also the summe of
                 three hundred twenty five pounds of tobacco for executeing Severall
                 writts by the said Christopher dureing the time aforesaid when he
                 was Sheriff of the said County of Calvert a particular of which said
                 goods and merchandizes and also of the said writts is here in Court
                 produced amounting in the whole to the summe of eleven hundred