426        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.

           Liber M M   Seaven head of cattle One horse and eighty One head of hoggs and
                   of all and Singular the issues & profitts comeing aswell of the 5aid
                   Plantation and Servants by tilling and manureing thereof as also
                   of the issues and profitts comeing of the said cattle and hoggs by
                   their encrease and of the said horse by his labour And also the said
                   George by the same time had received of Daniel Devine foure hun
                   dred and forty pounds of tobacco with which said tobacco as also
                   with the issues and profitts aforesaid the said George was to dispose
                   and merchandize and make profitt thereof for him the said Mathias
                   and to render an accompt thereof to him the said Mathias when
                   thereunto required Yet the said George reasonable accompt thereof
                   to the said Mathias hath not thereof made though often thereunto
                   demanded but the same to him to make hitherto hath denyed and as
                   yet doth deny to the damage of him the said Mathias thirty thousand
                   pounds of tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                     And the said George Charlsworth by Keneim Cheseldyn his
                   Attorny cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c and
                   prayeth liberty of Speakeing hereunto untill the next Provinciall
                   Court and the Same day is given to both parties.
                     Att which day to wit ninth day of December in the three and
                   fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said George
                   Char!sworth by his Attorny aforesaid but the said Mathias Decosta
                   came not to prosecute the plaint aforesaid therefore it is considered
                   by the Court here that the said George Charlsworth recover against
                   the said Mathias Decosta the summe of pounds of
                   tobacco for his costs and charges in this behalfe laid Out and ex
                   pended and the said Mathias in mercy for his false claime.

                   Lydia Solly admrx of Thomas Ward late of St Maries County other
                     Benja Solly wise called Thomas Ward of St Maries
                       agt       County was Sumöned to answer unto Lydia
                   Thomas Ward Solly deceased of a plea that he render unto
                                 her the summe of three thousand foure hun
                                 dred twenty three pounds of tobacco which
                                 from her he unjustly deteineth.
                     And whereupon the said Lydia by Robert Carvile her Attorny
                   Saith That where the said Thomas the two and twentith day of June
                   in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy foure
                   by his certaine bill or writeing Obligatory sealed with the seale of
                   the said Thomas and here in Court produced whose date is the day
                   and yeare abovesaid did confesse and acknowledge himself to owe
                   and stand indebted to the said Benjamin Solly the summe of three
               p. 426  thousand foure hundred twenty three pounds of good Sound law
                   full merchantable tobacco and caske to be paid to the Said Benjamin
                   his heirs executors administrators or assignes at or before the tenth
                   day of October next ensueing the date of the said bill in some con
                   venient landing place in the said County Yet notwithstanding the