442 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5.




         Liber M M Nicholas Bayard & Peter Comãnd was given to the Sheriff of Dor
                   Bayard chester County that he take Wm Worgan
                   agt            otherwise called William Worgan of Don-
                 William Worganchester County in the Province of Mary
                 land if he should be found in his bayliwick
                 and him safe Keepe So that he have his
                 body before his Lopps justices of the Provinciall Court to be held
                 at the Citty of St Maries the thirtenth day of October last past to
                 to answer unto Nicholas Bayard and Peter Bayard of New Yorke
                 Merchts in a plea that he render unto them the summe of five thou-
             p. 438  sand three hundred Seventy nine pounds of good Sound merchant
                 able leafe tobacco in caske which to them he oweth and unjustly
                 deteineth, and whereas afterward to witt the ninth day of December
                 last past the Same Sheriff maketh returne that the said William
                 Worgan is not found in his Bailiwick whereupon the said Nicholas
                 and Peter prayed an attachment against the goods and Chattells of
                 the said William might to them be granted according to Act of
                 Assembly in that case made and provided and it is granted them
                 returnable at this Court.
                   Now here at this day to wit the tenth day of ffebruary in the 43th
                 yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Came the said William Worgan in
                 his proper person and Saith nothing in barre or avoidance of the
                 action aforesaid of them the said Nicholas and Peter for that he
                 oweth to the said Nicholas and Peter the said summe of five thousand
                 three hundred Seventy nine pounds of tobacco whereupon the said
                 Nicholas and Peter remaine against the said William thereof un
                 defended therefore it is considered by the Court here that the said
                 Nicholas and Peter recover against the said William the said summe
                 of five thousand three hundred seventy nine pounds of tobacco the
                 debt aforesaid as also the summe of pounds of to
                 bacco for this costs and charges in this behalf e laid Out and by them
                 expended and the said William Worgan in mercy.

                 John Balley Marke Cordea of St Maries County was attached to
                   agt answer unto John Bailey likewise of St Maries
                 MankeCordea County in a plea of trespas upon the case.
                   And whereupon the said John Bailey by George Oldfeild his At
                 tonny Saith that whereas upon the second day of April in the yeane
                 One thousand Six hundred seventy three the said Mark Cordea did
                 instantly request the Said John to furnish him some quantityes of
                 tobaccoes to dispatch away for New Yorke the Sloop of Samuel
                 Davis assumeing upon himselfe and unto the said John faithfully
                 did promise that he would pay unto him the said John in the month
                 of November then next ensueing at some conven [ient] places of the
                 easterne Shoare within this Province as many pounds of porke as
                 the Said John should furnish him pounds of tobacco. And the Said