Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     661

      Saith that whereas the Said Garret the fifth day of October in the Liber M M
      yeare of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seventy two by his
      certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of him the said
      Garret & here in Court produced whose date is the day and yeare
      aforesaid did acknowledge himselfe to be holden and firmly in
      debted to the said Roger in the full & just Summe or quantity of
      Six thousand Six hundred pounds of good Sound merchantable
      tobacco & casque to be paid unto the said Roger Baker or to his cer
      taine Attorny his heirs executors admrs or assignes at some con
      venient place in Calvert County upon the tenth day of October next
      ensueing the date of the said writeing Obligatory To the which
      payment well and truly to be made the said Garret did bind him
      self e his heirs executors & admrs firmly by those prsents Yet the afore
      said Garret the aforesaid Six thousand Six hundred pounds of to
      bacco to him the said Roger according to the tenor of the same
      writeing Obligatory hath not paid though often demanded but the
      same to pay hath denyed & as yet doth deny to the damage of the
      said Roger tenn thousand pounds of tobacco & thereunto he bringeth
      his suite.
        And the said Garret by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh and
      defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty of Speakeing
      hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court & it is granted him the
      same day is given to both parties.
        Now here at this day to wit the twentith day of November in the
      44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Came the said Roger by
      his Attorny aforesaid & the said Garret by Keneim Cheseldyn his
      Attorny came likewise and the said Garret Saith that as to three
      thousand eight hundred thirty eight pounds of tobacco part of the
      said Six thousand six hundred pounds of tobacco he cannot gain
      say for that he oweth the same to the said Roger Therefore it is
      considered by the Court here that the said Roger recover against
      the said Garret the said Summe of three thousand eight hundred
      thirty eight pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe
      of five hundred thirty Six pounds of tobacco costs of Suite.

      George Beckwith Thomas Lomax and John Llewellin late of St p. 638
        agt Maries County otherwise called Thomas Lomax
      Thomas Lomax & of St Maries County Gent and John Lewellin of
        Jno Lewellin the Same County were Sumöned to answer unto
        George Beckwith in a plea that they render unto
        him the summe of eighteen hundred pounds of
        tobacco which to him they owe & unjustly deteine.
        And whereupon the said George Beckwith by Robert Carvile his
      Attorny Saith that whereas they the Said Thomas & John the 14th
      day of April in the three & fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius
      &c Annoq Dom One thousand Six hundred Seventy foure by the[ir]