92        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.

          Liber M M  ages upon the account of him the said Thomas did amount to the
                 sume of foure thowsand five hundred pounds of Tobacco. a particu
                 ler whereof is here in Cort pduced, Notwithstanding which the said
                 Thomas in his life time nor the sd John Harris since his Adminis
                 tratorship of the goods and Chattells of the said Thomas though
                 often thereunto Required hath not payd, but the same to pay al
                 together Denyes, to the Damage of the said Ambrose 7000 l Tob,
                 and thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                   And the said John Harris by Thomas Jones his Attorney comes
                 and Defends the force and injury when &c and saith that he did
                 not assume as abovesayd, and of this he prayes the advise of this
                 Cort, and the said Ambrose also. And the Cort having fully Ex
                 amined the business betweene the said partyes doe order the said
                 John Harris Admr as aforesayd to pay until the said Biggs the
                 sume of sixteene hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco and also
                 the sume of             pounds of Tobacco for Costs
                 of suite, or Else that Execution issue agt the said Harris for the
                 same.

              The Court Adjourned whilst to morrow morning.

                 The 11th of April1 1673.
           p. 29        Present as yesterday and Thomas Taylor Esq
                   James Cade and Timothy Hummerston servants unto David
                 Driver, being brought by their said Master into Court, and he fully
                 making it appeare to the Court that they had Runnaway from him
                 thirty six dayes apeice, It is by the Court ordered that they serve
                 their said Master one yeare a peice for such their Running away
                 according to Act of Assembly in that case pvided.

                 Richard Ladd Henry Mitchell late of Calvert County otherwise
                     agt called Henry Mitchell of the Clifts gentt was sum-
               Henry Mitchell  moned to answere unto Richard Ladd, of a plea
                            that he Render unto him twelve thowsand pounds
                            of Tobacco, which to him he oweth and unjustly
                            Deteynes &c.
                   And whereupon the said Richard by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                 Complaineth that whereas the said Henry upon the 26th day of Octo
                 ber in the 38th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c, and in the
                 yeare of our Lord 1669 by his Certeine writing obligatory sealed
                 with the scale of him the said Henry and here in Court produced
                 whose date is the day and yeare abovesayd did become firmly bound
                 to the said Richard in the sume of Twelve Thowsand pounds of
                 good Tobacco and Casque to the which payment well and truly to
                 be made he bound himself his heires Executors and Admrs by those
                 prsents, Notwithstanding the said Henry though often Required the