662  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.




          Liber M M  certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seales of them the said
                  Thomas and John here in Court produced whose date is the day &
                  yeare abovewritten did acknowledge themselves holden & firmly in
                  debted unto George Beckwith of Patuxent in the County of Calvert
                  in the aforesaid Province Gent in the full & just quantity of eighteen
                  hundred pounds of good Sound large bright & every way well con
                  ditioned tobacco & caske to be paid to the said George Beckwith or
                  to his certain[e] Attorny or Attornyes executrs admrs or assignes
                  upon all demand To which payment well & truly to be made & done
                  they bound themselves and every of them their & every of their heirs
                  executors & administratrs Severally and joyntly for the whole & in
                  the whole firmly by those presents notwithstanding which the said
                  Thomas and John the said summe of eighteen hundred pounds of
                  tobacco to him the said George though often thereunto required
                  hath not paid but the same to pay hitherto have and Still doe al
                  together deny to the damage of him the said George three thousand
                  pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                   And the said Thomas by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh
                  and defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty of Speake
                  ing hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court and it is granted him
                  the Same day is given to both parties.
                   Now here at this day to wit the foure & twentith day of November
                  in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said
                  George by his Attorny aforesaid & the said Thomas by his Attorny
                  likewise came & the Said Thomas Saith that as to nine hundred
                  pounds of tobacco part of the said eighteen hundred pounds of
                  tobacco he cannot gainsay for that he oweth the same tcs the said
                  George in manner & forme as is above declared Therefore it is con
                  sidered by the Court here that the said George Beckwith recover
                  against the said Thomas Lomax the said Summe of nine hundred
                  pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of Six hun
                  dred thirty five pounds of tobacco for his costs & charges in this
                  behal fe laid Out & expended & the said Thomas Lomax in mercy.

                  November 23th 1675.
              p.639 Came Keneim Cheseldyn One of the Attornyes of this Court and
                  moves the Court here that he hath Severall bills to file against John
                  Quigley One of the Attornyes here which may be comprized in One
                  so that the said john Quigley take no advantage thereby whereupon
                  it is Ordered that no advantage thereupon be taken by the said John
                  Quigley.

                  November 24th 1675
                   Then was Peter Eure of St Maries County Gent admitted &
                  sworne one of the Attornyes of this Court.