Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     125

       Baker     Brooke Escp 1 Thomas Pattison late of Dorchester County Liber N N
            agt was attached to answer unto Baker Brooke
    Thomas Pattison j Esq Surveyour Generall of this Province and
                     One of the justices of this Court according to
       the liberties and priviledges &c of a plea of debt
         And whereupon the Said Baker Brooke in his proper person Saith
       that whereas the said Thomas upon the tenth day of ffebruary Stood
       justly indebted unto the Said Baker in the Summe of twenty foure
       thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco he the Said Thomas in
       consideration thereof did assume upon himselfe and to the said
       Baker did faithfully promise that he the Said Thomas the Said
       Summe of twenty foure thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco
       would well and truly Satisfie and pay when thereunto lawfully re-
       quired notwithstanding the said Thomas his promise and assump-
       tion aforesaid little regarding the Said summe of twenty foure
       thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco though often required
       hath not paid or satisfied but the same hath hitherto denyed and re-
       fused and Still doth deny to the damage of the said Baker thirty
       thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his suite
         And the Said Thomas by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh &
       defendeth the force & injury when &c saith nothing in Barre to the
       action aforesaid by which the Said Baker remaineth against the
       said Thomas for the said twenty foure thousand five hundred pounds
       of tobacco undefended Therefore it is considered by the Court here p. 78
       That the Said Baker recover against the Said Thomas the Said
       Summe of twenty foure thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco
       and the defendant in mercy.
          This judgment is defeazanced that if Thomas Pattison pay
          twelve thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco to the Said
          Baker Brooke on or before the last day of January next this
          judgment to be void or else to Stand in force.
       To Robert Carvile or any other
          of the Attornyes of the
            Provinciall Court.
         I doe hereby impower you or any of you to appeare for me at the
       suite of Baker Brooke Escp as of this present ffebruary Court 1675
       and to confesse judgment for the Summe of twenty foure thousand
       pounds of tobacco debt and five hundred pounds of tobacco more
       f or costs of Suite with defeazance for payment of twelve thousand
       five hundred pounds of tobacco On the last day of January next And
       for Your So doeing this shall be your sufficient warrant Given
       under my hand and Seale this twelfth day of ffebruary An° Doth
       1675.
       Testes. William Boarman   Tho: Pattison (sealed.)
             Michael Rochford.
       Acknowledged before me
          Philip Calvert.