654       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

        Liber M M   if the abovebound Mary Pine Tobias Wells or Wm Lawrence or
                either of them their heirs executors or admrs shall well & truly pay
                or cause to be paid unto the abovenamed John Parker his heirs
                executrs or admrs the like and just Summe of twenty thousand
                pounds of tobacco and caske at or upon the tenth day of October
                next ensueing the date hereof according to the tenor of the bond
                abovespecified. that then this Obligation to be void and of no
                effect or else to remaine in full force power Strenght & vertue.
                which being read & heard the Said Tobias prayes liberty of Speake
                ing hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court & it is granted him
                the same day is given to both parties.
                  At which said next Provinciall Court to wit the five & twentith
                day of November in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c
                Annoq3 Dom One thousand six hundred Seventy five came the said
                Wm Dare by his Attorny aforesaid and the Said Tobias Wells by
                Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny doth come & defend the force and
                injury when &c & Saith that the said William his action against him
                ought not to have for that he Saith he hath performed the condition
                of the Said writeing Obligatory and of this he putts himselfe upon
                the Country and the plaintiff likewise. Therefore it is Comanded
                the Sheriff that he cause to come here twelve &c. which Said jurors
                likewise came to witt Henry Tripp James Nuthall John Bigger
                Richard Bayly George Marshall Walter Hall David Holt Daniel
                Clocker Wm King Joseph Edloe Thomas Doxey & Ralph Blackhall
                who being impannelled sumoned Sworne to Say the truth in the
                premisses upon their Oathes doe say Wee jurors doe find for the
                plaintiff eight thousand six hundred and Sixteen pounds of tobacco
                Therefore it is considered by the Court here that the said Wm Dare
                recover against the estate of the Said Mary Pyne aswell the summe
                of eight thousand Six hundr [ed] and Sixteen pounds of tobacco
                the debt aforesaid as also the Summe of One thousand thirty nine
                pounds of tobacco costs of Suite.

                Henry Tripp John Ingram late of Talbott County otherwise called
                   agt John Ingram of Talbott County in the Province of
               John Ingramj   Maryland Inholder was Suthoned to answer unto
                          Henry Tripp in a plea that he render unto him the
                summe of thirty two thousand eight hundred & eighty pounds of
                tobacco which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth.
                  And whereupon the Said Henry by Kenelin Cheseldyn his At

                torny Saith that whereas the said John Ingram the twentith day of
                May in the yeare One thousand Six hundred Seventy-foure by his
                certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the seale of him the said
                John here in Court produced whose date is the Same day and yeare
            p. 631  abovewritten did acknowledge himselfe holden and firmly bounden
                unto Henry Tripp of the County of Dorchester in the Province