478 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5.




          Liber M M  in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred Seventy three
                  bought had and received of the said Marke Cordea thirty barrells
                  of Monados beere at two hundred pounds of tobacco p barrell all
                  sold & delivered as divers dayes and times to wit from the second
                  day of April in the yeare aforesaid untill the ninth day of May in
                  the same yeare in the whole amounting to the sume of six thousand
                  pounds of tobacco in consideracon whereof the said John did as
                  sume upon himseife and to the said Marke did faithfully promise
                  that he the said John the said summe of Six thousand pounds of
                  tobacco to him the said Marke when thereunto required the same to
                  him the Said Marke would well and truly content & pay Notwith
                  standing which the said John the said Summe of Six thousand
                  pounds of tobacco to him the said Marke according to his promise
                  hath not paid though often thereunto required but the same to him
                  the said Marke to pay hitherto hath & Still doth altogether deny
                  to the damage of the said Marke eight thousand pounds of tobacco
                  & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                   And the said John by George Old feud his Attorny cometh &
                  defendeth the force and injury when &c and saith that he did not
                  assume upon himselfe and to the said Marke make such promise as
                  the said Marke hath above against him declared and of this he putts
                  himselfe upon the Country and the said Marke also therefore it is
                  comanded the Sheriff of St Maries County that he cause to come
                  here twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c because aswell &c to rec
                  ognize &c.
                   Now here at this day to wit the eleventh day of ffebruary in the
                  43th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annop Doth 1674 came
                  the said Marke Cordea by his Attorny and the said John Bailey by
                  his Attorny and the jurors of that jury came likewise to Wit Roger
                  Baker Thomas Bowdie John Burage John Garnish James Veitch
                  Justinian Gerard John Gittings Cornelius Watkinson Wm Watts
                  Walter Hall Robert Proctor & Robert Large who being impannelled
                  summoned and Sworne to say the truth in the premisses upon their
                  Oathes doe say That they find for the plaintiff Therefore it is con
                  sidered of by the Court here that the said Marke Cordea recover
                  against the said John Balley the said summe of Six thousand pounds
                  of tobacco damages occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as also the
                  summe of nine hundred fifty Six pounds of tobacco for costs of
                  Suite in this behalfe laid Out & expended.

                  Garret Vansweringen
                                   agt
             Richard Moy        these two causes continued untill the next
             John Barnes        Court.
                  agt
             Richard Moy