452 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5.




      Liber M M                   thousand pounds of good Sound merchant
                                  able tobacco and caske and foure thousand
                                  Single tenn penny nailes and foure thou
                                  sand five hundred six penny nailes which
                                  from him he unjustly deteineth
                    And whereupon the said Thomas Doxey by Robert Ridgely his
                  Attorny Saith that whereas the said Joseph Brough in his life time
               to wit the thirtenth day of September in the two and f ortith 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 Joseph and here in Court produced
                  whose date is the day and yeare abovesaid did acknowledge himselfe
                  to be holden and firmly bound unto the said Thomas in the full and
                  just Summe of foure thousand pounds of good Sound merchantable
                  tobacco and caske to be paid to the said Thomas or to his certaine
                  Attorny his executrs admrs or assignes three thousand in the yeare
                  One thousand Six hundred Seventy three and One thousand in the
                  yeare One thousand Six hundred Seventy foure with conveniency in
                  St Michaels hundred in St Maries County upon demand together with
                  foure thousand Single ten penny nailes and foure thousand five
                  hundred Six penny nailes as soon as the said Joseph should con
                  veniently Gett them to the which payment well and truly to be made
                  and done the sd Joseph did bind himselfe his heirs executors adminis
                  trators and assignes firmly by those presents Notwithstanding which
                  the said Joseph Brough in his life time nor the said George to whom
                  administration of all and Singular the Goods chattells and Creditts
                  of the said Joseph since his death was comit[ted] Since the death
                  of the said Joseph the said summe of foure thousand pounds of
                  tobacco and the said foure thousand single ten penny nailes and the
                  said foure thousand five hundred Six penny nailes according to the
                  tenor of the said writeing Obligatory to him the said Thomas hath
                  not paid though often thereunto required but the same to pay hitherto
                  hath denyed and Still doth altogether deny to the damage of the
                  said Thomas of Six thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he
                  bringeth his suite
                    And the aforesaid George Marshall by Kenelm Cheseldyn his
                  Attorney cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c and
                  the said George prayeth liberty of Speakeing hereunto untill the first
                  day of the next Court and the Same day is granted unto both parties.
                    Now here at this day to wit the tenth day of ffebruary in the three
                  and fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom 1674
                  came the said George Marshall by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny
                  and defendeth the force and injury when &c and Saith that the said
                  Joseph in his life time did pay the said foure thousand pounds of
                  tobacco and foure thousand of Single ten penny nailes and foure
                  thousand five hundred Six penny nailes according to the tenor of his