100       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.
             Liber N N Richard Johns     t
                     a t        Unless the def appeare next Court the Sheriff
                     g of Kent County amerced 40s.
                   Thomas Thackston

                   Wm Dunkerton
                       agt    continued untill next Court.
                   Thomas Overton

               p.63    Caecilius Lord Baltemore Robert Goulding late of St Maries County
                       agt marriner otherwise called Robert Gowlan
                   Robert Gowlanmarriner was Sumoned to answer unto
                   Caecilius Lord Baltemore of a plea that
                   he render unto him the full and just summe of two hundred pounds
                   Sterling to say law full mony of England which to him he oweth &
                   unjustly deteineth.
                    And whereupon the said Caecilius Lord Baltemore by Robert
                   Ridgely his Attorny Saith that whereas the said Robert the twelfth
                   day of June One thousand six hundred Seventy three by his certaine
                   writeing Obligatory Sealed with the seale of him the Said Robert
                   and here in Court produced whose date is the day and yeare afore-
                   said did acknowledge himself e to be holden and firmly bound unto
                   the said Caecilius Lord Baltemore in the full & just sume of two
                   hundred pounds Sterling to Say law full mony of England to be
                   paid to the said Lord Baltemore or to his certaine Attorny his heirs
                   executrs admrs or assignes for the which payment well & truly to be
                   made the said Robert did bind himselfe his heirs executrs and admrs
                   firmly by those presents Yet the aforesaid Robert Gowlan the afore-
                   said sume of two hundred pounds Sterling to him the said Lord
                   Baltemore according to the tenor of the Said writeing Obligatory
                   though often thereunto required hath not paid but the same to pay
                   hath denyed and as yet doth deny whereupon the said Lord Balte-
                   more Saith he is dampnified and hath losse to the value of three
                   hundred pounds Sterling & thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
                    And the aforesaid Robert Gowlan in his proper person in the
                   custody of the Sheriff cometh and defendeth the force and injury
                   when &c and prayeth the heareing of the said writeing Obligatory
                   and it is read unto him he also prayeth the heareing of the Condition
                   of the Same writeing and it is read unto him in these words vizt
                   The Condition of this Obligation is such That whereas the above
                   bound Robert Gowlan hath this day drawne by exchange On Miles
                   Cooke of London Marriner foure bills of exchange for twenty One
                   pounds three shillings ten pence Sterling all of One tenor & date
                   payable at twenty dayes sight thereof unto the Said Lord Baltemore
                   or his Order If therefore the said Miles Cooke Shall well and truly
                   pay or cause to be paid the said bills of exchange according to the
                   tenor thereof without fraud or delay then this Obligation to be