Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     655

      of Maryland Gent in the just Summe of thirty two thousand eight Liber M M
      hundred & eighty pounds of good Sound merchantable leafe tobacco
      & caske to be paid at Some convenient place betweene the mouth of
      Broad Creeke and Bullingbrooke Creeke in Great Choptanck River
      upon demand being for a valuable consideration already in hand
      received to be paid to the said Henry Tripp or to his certaine Attorny
      his heirs executrs & admrs to the which payment well & truly to be
      made & done he the said John did bind himselfe his heirs executors
      admrs firmly by those pTsents notwithstanding which the said John
      Ingram the said summe of thirty two thousand eight hundred &
      eighty pounds of tobacco according to the tenor of the Said writeing
      Obligatory hath not paid though often thereunto required but the
      same to pay hitherto hath and Still doth altogether deny to the
      damage of the Said Henry thirty Six thousand pounds of tobacco &
      thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
        And the said John by Vincent Lowe his Attorny cometh and
      defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of Speake
      ing hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court & it is granted him
      the same day is given to both parties here.
        Att which said next Provinciall Court to wit the five and twentith
      day of November in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c
      Came the said Henry by his Attorny aforesaid & 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 Henry Tripp recover against the said John Ingram
      aswell the said Summe of thirty two thousand eight hundred &
      eighty pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the Summe of
      five hundred and foure pounds of tobacco costs of Suite & the Said
      John in mercy &c.

      Henry Tripp Peter Underwood late of Talbott County other-
      Peter Underwood wise called Peter Underwood of Great Chop
         agttanck River in the Province of Maryland planter
         was Sumöned to answer unto Henry Tripp in a
      plea that he render unto him the summe of Six thousand two hun
      dred & fifty One pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth & un
      justly deteineth
        And whereupon the said Henry by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny
      Saith that whereas the said Peter Underwood the foure & twentith
      day of ffebruary in the yeare One thousand Six hundred Seventy
      three did by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the seale p. 632
      of the Said Peter here in Court produced whose date is the same
      day & yeare abovewritten bind himselfe his heirs executors adminis
      trators to pay or cause to be paid unto Henry Tripp of Little Chop
      tanck River in the Province aforesaid his heirs executors admrs
      assignes or law full Attorny in the full and just Summe of Six