Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5. 481




       John Coade & ux                           Liber M M
           agt           these nine causes agreed.
       J ustmian Gerard
       Isaac ffoxcroft
          agt
       John Allen
       Richard Ambrose
           agt
       Thomas Heigar &
       Thomas Gibson
       John ifoster
          agt
       John Craycroft
       Robert Gates
          agt
       James Nuthall

       Marke Cordeal John Bailey late of St Maries County merchant was p. 471
          agt attached to answer unto Marke Cordea in a plea of
       John Bailey trespas upon the case.
        And whereupon the said Marke by Kenelm Cheseidyn his Attorny
       Complaineth that whereas the said John Bailey the six and twentith
       day of March in the yeare One thousand six hundred seventy three
       in consideration that the said Marke Cordea at the speciall instance
       and request of him the said John Balley would receive him the said
       John Bailey into the house of him the said Marke as a boarder with
       him the said Marke for One month next following and So from One
       month next following another so long as it Should please both parties
       and find him the said John Bailey Sufficient meate drinke washing
       and lodging and pasture for his horse dureing such time he the said
       John continued as aforesaid at the house of him the said Marke
       the said John did assume upon himselfe and to the said Marke did
       faithfully promise that he the said John for the time he the Said
       John Should continue at the house of the said Marke as aforesaid
       would well & truly content and pay to him the said Marke for the
       Same what he Should deferre And the said Marke in fact saith that
       he the Said John did board and continue in the house of him the Said
       Marke from the Said Six and twentith day of March in the Yeare
       aforesaid untill the ninetenth day of September in the yeare afore
       said in the whole amounting to the space and time of Six months
       & that he the said Mark dureing the said time did find him the said
       John Sufficient meate drinke washing & lodging & pasture for his
       horse & that for the same he doth well deserve three hundred pounds
       of tobacco P month which in the whole for six months doth amount
       to the summe of eighteen hundred pounds of tobacco notwithstand
       ing which the said John Bailey the Said sume of eighteen hundred