Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     605

       enty foure did by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Liber M M
       Seale of the Said John Baker here in Court produced whose date is
       the same day and yeare abovewritten acknowledge himself e holden &
       firmly bound & indebted unto Thomas Chapman of Liverpoole mer- p. 582
       chant the full whole and just quantity of two thousand Six hundred
       pounds of good Sound merchantable leafe tobacco in caske to be
       paid upon demand and for good complyance thereof he did bind
       himselfe his heirs executors admrs & assignes to him the said Thomas
       Chapman his heirs executors admrs or assignes or law full Attorny
       Notwithstanding which the said John Baker the said Summe of
       two thousand Six hundred pounds of tobacco according to his Said
       writeing Obligatory hath not paid though often thereunto required
       but the same to pay hitherto hath & doth altogether deny to the dam
       age of the said Thomas foure thousand pounds of tobacco & there
       upon he brings his suite.
         And the said John by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh & de
       fendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of Speak
       ing hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & it is granted him the
       same day is given to both parties here.
         Now here at this day to wit the foure & twentith day of November
       in the yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Doth 1675
       came the said Thomas by his Attorny aforesaid and offered himselfe
       against the said John in the plea aforesaid but the said John came
       not but made default therefore it is considered by the Court here that
       the said Thomas Chapman recover against the said John Baker aswell
       the summe of two thousand Six hundred pounds of tobacco the debt
       aforesaid as also the summe of pounds of tobacco
       for his costs & charges in this behalfe laid Out & expended and the
       said John in mercy.

         The Sheriff of Charles County haveing taken the body of John
       Allen in execution at the suite of Miles Cooke and Samuel Cooke
       and brought his body at the day & place as by the same writts he was
       required the Said John Allen besought the Court here this day to
       witt the eightenth day of November in the 44th yeare of his Lopps
       Dominion &c that he might be remitted back into the Custody of the
       Same Sheriff whereby he might be in a better capacity of Satisfieing
       the executions aforesaid. Whereupon it was then Ordered that the
       Said John Allen be remitted into the Custody of the Said Sheriff
       and that he bring his body here next Provinciall Court.

       Richard Keene
           agt
       Mathias Decosta
       Henry Parker
           agt       these three causes discontinued
       Henry Bradley