Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.  597




     dred sixty five pounds residue of the said nineteene hundred & fif- Liber M M
     teene pounds of tobacco the said Richard saith that he did not assume
     & promise in manner & for me as the Said James above hath de
     clared against by him. And the Said James Saith that he the said
     Richard hath not paid the said fifteen hundred & fifty pounds of
     tobacco in manner aforesaid and that the said Richard did assume
     for the three hundred sixty five pounds of tobacco residue of the said
     debt and of this he putts himselfe upon the Country and the said
     Richard likewise Therefore Comãnd is given to the Sheriff that
     he cause to come here twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c to rec
     ognize &c because as well &c
       Now here at this day to wit the foure & twentith day of November
     in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annop Doth 1675
     Came the said James Nuthall by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny and
     the said Richard Bayley by Robert Ridgely his Attorny likewise came
     & the jurors of that jury Vizt John Gittings Wm Thomas Arthur
     Wright Peter Watts John Tant Richard Meekins John Garnish Ray
     mond Stapelfort John Brookes George Charlsworth Henry Turner
     and Henry Exon who being impannelled sumOned & Sworne to Say
     the truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe Say Wee find for
     the plaintiff ten pounds of tobacco being in arreare and unpaid of
     the debt now sued for and as to the three hundred sixty five pounds
     of tobacco Wee have no evidence whereby the assumption may be
     proved to Us. Therefore it is considered by the Court here that the
     said James Nuthall recover against the said Richard Bayley aswell
     the sume of ten pounds of tobacco for the trespas aforesaid as also
     the sume of pounds of tobacco for his costs &
     charges in this behalfe laid Out & expended & the said Richard
     Bayley in mercy.

    Garrett Vansweringen Henry Smith late of St Maries County
        agt planter was attached to answer unto Garret
 Henry Smith        Vansweringen in a plea of trespas upon the
                    case.
       And whereupon the said Garret Vansweringen by Keneim Chesel
     dyn his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said Henry Smith
     the ninetenth day of June in the yeare 1672 Stood indebted to the
     said Garret Vansweringen for divers liquors & other accomodations
     received at the house of him the said Garret at divers dayes & tymes p. 575
     to wit from the said ninetenth day of June in the yeare 1672 afore
     said untill the thirtith day of September in the yeare 1673 a particu
     lar of all which is here in Court produced amounting in the whole
     to the sumee of five hundred & twelve pounds of tobacco In considera
     con whereof the said Henry did assume upon himselfe & to the said
     Garret did faithfully promise that he the said Henry when thereunto
     required the said sume of five hundred & twelve pounds of tobacco