Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.  589




       untill the Six and twentith day of the same month at which said Liber M M
       16th day were present.

                Philip Calvert Esp Chancellour
                Wm Calvert Esq Secretary
       The Honbe                    justices.
               Baker Brooke Esq
                Coll Jesse Wharton Esq
                                      Jno Blomfeild Cl

       John Baker Edmund Lindsey late of Charles County planter
          agt otherwise called Edmond Lindsey of Charles
       Edmund Lindsey County in the said Province planter was Sumoned
                  to answer unto John Baker of a plea that he render p. 567
       unto him the full and just quantity of two thousand two hundred
       flinty five pounds of good Sound merchantable tobacco in casque
       which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth
         And whereupon the Said John Baker by Robert Ridgely his At
       torny Saith that whereas the said Edmond the 16th day of May in
       the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred Seventy foure
       by his certaine bill Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of the said
       Edmond and here in Court produced whose date is the day and yeare
       aforesaid did acknowledge himselfe to be holden and firmly bounden
       unto the Said John Baker in the full and just quantity of two thou
       sand two hundred flinty and five pounds of good Sound merchantable
       tobacco & caske to be paid to the said John Baker or to his certaine
       Attorny his heirs executors administrators or assignes in Some Con
       venient place in Charles County upon demand to the which payment
       well & truly to be made the said Edmond did bind himself e his heirs
       executors & admrs firmly by those prsents Yet the aforesaid Edmond
       the said summe of two thousand two hundred flinty five pounds of
       tobacco according to the tenor of the Same bill Obligatory to him the
       said John Baker though often thereunto required hath not paid but
       the Same to pay hath denyed and as yet doth deny whereupon the
       Said John Baker Saith he is dampnified and hath lost to the Value
       of three thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his
       suite.
         And the said Edmund Lindsey by Benjamin Rozer his Attorny
       cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth lib
       erty of Speakeing hereunto untill the next Provincial Court and the
       same day is given to both parties.
         Now here at this day to wit the Sixtenth day of November in the
       44th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c came the said John Baker by
       Robert Rigley his Attorny and the said Edmund Lindsey by Benja
       Rozer his Attorny came likewise & the said Benjamin Saith nothing
       in barr or avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the said John
       Whereupon the said John remaineth against the said Edmund there-