Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.  647




        to the damage of him the said Stephen Six thousand pounds of Liber M M
        tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his action
         And the said John by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh & de
        fends the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty of Speakeing
        hereun[to] untill the next Provinciall Court & it is granted him
        the same day is given to both parties here.
         Afterwards to witt the foure & twentith day of November in the p. 623
        44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Came the said John
        Quigley in his proper person and saith that he saith nothing in barr
        or avoidance of the plaintiffs action as to two thousand seven hun
        dred sixty eight pounds of tobacco part of the said summe of foure
        thousand pounds of tobacco in the declaration mentioned but saith
        that he is willing that the plaintiff recover against him the said
        summe of two thousand seven hundred Sixty eight pounds of
        tobacco with costs of Suite therefore it is considered by the Court
        here that the said Stephen Tully recover against the said John
        Quigley the said Summe of two thousand Seven hundred Sixty
        eight pounds of tobacco as also the summe of five hundred pounds
        of tobacco costs of Suite.

       George Beckwith Thomas Mountfort late of Talbott County
            agt otherwise called Thomas Mountfort of the
     Thomas Mountfort  County of Calvert Gent was Summoned to
                     answer unto George Beckwith of a plea that
                     he render unto him the summe of Eight hun
                     dred & forty pounds of tobacco which to him he
                     oweth & unjustly deteineth.
         And whereupon the said George by Robert Carvile his Attorny
        Saith that whereas the said Thomas Mount fort the eight & twentith
        day of April in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred
        seventy three by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the
        Seale of him the said Thomas and here in Court produced whose
        date is the same day & yeare abovewritten did acknowledge to be
        holden and firmly bounden unto the said George Beckwith of the
        same County the full and just Summe of Eight hundred & forty
        pounds of good & every way well conditioned leafe tobacco and
        casque for a valuable consideracOn by him in hand received to which
        payment well & truly to be made at some convenient place in
        Petuxent River he did bind himselfe his heirs executrs & admrs firmly
        by those prsents Notwithstanding which the said Thomas the said
        summe of Eight hundred & forty pounds of tobacco unto him the
        said George though often thereunto required hath not paid but the
        same to pay hitherto hath & Still doth altogether deny to the dam
        age of him the said George Sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco &
        thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
         And the said Thomas by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh