Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675. 637

       chantable tobacco in caske Conveniently in Petuxent River On or Liber M M
       before the five & twentith day of December next ensueing the date
       hereof without fraud or further delay That then this prsent Obliga
       tion to be void or else to remaine in full force & virtue
        Which being read and heard this day to witt the Sevententh day of
       November in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq
       Dom 1675 the said Charles Saith nothing in barr or avoidance of
       the action aforesaid of him the said Hugh for that he oweth the said
       Hugh the said Summe of fifteen hundred & eighty pounds of to
       bacco in the declaration mentioned Therefore it is considered by
       the Court here that the said Hugh recover against the said Charles
       aswell the said Summe of fifteene hundred & eighty pounds of
       tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred pounds
       of tobacco costs of Suite.

       Mathew Warde   Arthur Carleton administrator of the Goods p. 613
           agt and Chattells of Thomas Carleton late of
      Arthur Carleton admr Caecil County deceased was attached to
        Thomas Carleton answer Mathew Warde Gent One of the
                      Attornyes of the Provinciall Court accord
                      ing to the libertyes & priviledges of Attornyes
                      &c in a plea of debt.
        And whereupon the said Mathew in his proper person complaineth
       that whereas the said Thomas the fourth day of September One
       thousand Six hundred Seventy two by his certaine writeing Obliga
       tory Sealed & delivered by the Said Thomas as his deed here in
       Court produced whose date is the day and yeare abovesaid became
       bound to the Said Mathew in the full quantity of twenty thousand
       pounds of good Sound merchantable tobacco & caske with condi
       tion in the said writeing contained Vizt that whereas the abovenamed
       Thomas Carleton hath bargained & sold unto the Said Mathew
       Warde his plantation in Petuxent River with all the houses lands &
       appurtenfics to them belonging for the consideration of tenn thou
       sand pounds of tobacco paid and to be paid if therefore the said
       Thomas Carleton his heirs executors or administrators or any of
       them doe well & truly make and assure or cause to be well made
       and assured unto the said Mathew Warde his heirs and assignes for
       ever the said Plantation with the houses Lands and appurtenncs by
       Such assurance and Conveyance in the Law as Counsell shall ad
       vise devise and require at or before the twenty fourth day of Decem
       ber then next ensueing the date hereof that then the Obligation to
       be void Notwithstanding which neither the Said Thomas in his life
       time nor the said Arthur administrator of the Said Thomas Since
       his death nor any other person in the Said Condition mentioned hath
       made and assured or caused to be made and assured unto the Said
       Matthew the said Plantation and premisses according to the tenor