Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     17

        defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of Liber N N
        Speakeing hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court and it is granted
        him the same day is given to both parties here. Att which said
        next Provinciall Court to wit the two and twentith day of November
        in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom One
        thousand six hundred Seventy five came the said Robert Lashley by
        his Attorny abovesaid and offered himself e against the said John
        in the plea aforesaid and the Said John Bigger by Keneim Cheseldyn
        his Attorny came likewise and the said John Saith nothing in barre
        or avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the Said Robert Lashley
        for that he oweth unto the said Robert the said summe of eight
        thousand Six hundred and five pounds of tobacco Sixteen dozen of
        wooden Combes and three dozen of pinns in manner & forme as
        the said Robert hath above declared against him Therefore it is
        considered by the Court here that the said Robert Lashley recover
        against the Said John Bigger aswell the sume of eight thousand Six
        hundred & five pounds of tobacco Sixteen dozen of wooden Combes
        & three dozen of pinns the debt aforesaid as also the summe of Six
        hundred thirty five pounds of tobacco costs of Suite.

        John Ingram adm' of Mathew Stone late of Charles County other-
          George Harris wise called Mathew Stone of Charles County
         agt           in the Province of Maryland Gent was Sum
        Mathew Stoneöned to answer unto John Ingram adminis
        trator of the goods and Chattells of George
        Harris of Kent Island deceased in a plea that he render unto him
        Six hundred pounds of tobacco which from him he unjustly deteineth.
          Whereupon the said John Ingram by Vincent Lowe his Attorny
        Saith that whereas the said Mathew Stone the Seven & twentith
        day of April Anno Dom One thousand six hundred seventy two by
        his certaine writeing Obligatory sealed with his Seale here in Court
        produced whose date is the day & yeare abovewritten did bind him-
        self e his heirs executors admrs & assignes to pay unto the said George
        Harris or his certaine Attorny his heirs executors admrs or assignes
        the full and just summe or quantity of Six hundred pounds of
        tobacco in caske in some Convenient place in Charles County at or p. 12
        upon the tenth day of October next ensueing the date thereof yet
        notwithstanding the aforesaid Summe of Six hundred pounds of
        tobacco the Said Mathew hath not paid to him the said George
        Harris in his life time nor to the Said John Ingram administrator
        to the said George Harris though often thereunto required where-
        upon the Said John Ingram Saith he his dampnified and hath losse
        to the value of foure thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he
        bringeth his Suite.
          And the Said Mathew Stone by Benjamin Rozer his Attorny corn-
        eth and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty