Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5. 455




      seeme meet or otherwise to doe therein according to his discretion Liber M M
      and for his proceedings therein this shall be his warrant Witnes my
      hand and seale the second of October One thousand six hundred
      Seventy foure.
        Witnes                 the marke of
        G Vsweringen         Thomas  Doxey (Sealed)
        Thomas Houghton
      To Robert Ridgely one of
        the Attornyes of the
        Provinciall Court.

      John Quigley Mathew Stone late of Charles County otherwise
          agt called Mathew Stone of Charles County in the Prov
    Mathew Stone     ince of Maryland Gent was Summoned to answer
                unto John Quigley Merchant of a plea that he render
                unto him Sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco which
                to him he Oweth and unjustly deteineth.
        And whereupon the said John by Robert Carvile his Attorny corn
      plaineth That whereas the said Mathew upon the thirtenth day
      of June One thousand six hundred Seventy three by his certaine
      bill or writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of him the said
      Mathew and here in Court produced whose date is the day and
      yeare abovesaid did con fesse and acknowledge himselfe to owe and
      stand indebted to the said John Quigley in the summe of Sixteene p.
      hundred pounds of good Sound merchantable tobacco and caske to
      be paid to the Said John upon the tenth day of October next ensue
      ing the date of the said bill at Some convenient landing in Charles
      County Notwithstanding which the said Mathew the said summe of
      Sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco to him the said John though
      often thereunto requested according to the tenor of the said bill
      hath not hitherto paid or satisfied but the same to pay doth deny
      and refuse to the damage of the said John two thousand pounds of
      tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
        And the said Mathew by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh
      and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
      Speakeing hereunto until the next Provinciall Court the same day
      is given to both partyes.
        Now here at this day to wit the tenth day of ffebruary in the 43th
      yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said John Quigley
      by his Attorny aforesaid and the said Mathew Stone by his Attorny
      came likewise and the said Mathew Saith nothing in barr or avoid
      ance of the action aforesaid of him the said John Quigley whereupon
      the said John remaineth against the said Mathew thereof undefended
      therefore it is Considered by the Court here that the said John Quig
      ley recover against the said Mathew Stone the said summe of Six
      teen hundred pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe