172       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N  under his hand and Seale here in Court produced Oblige himselfe
                   his heirs executors & admrs to make Over unto the said Robert
                   Williams the then next June Court or to his heirs or lawfull Attorny
                   six thousand pounds of tobacco due to him the Said George Robins
                   by Order of Court from John Slauter and Edward Norman two
                   thousand to be paid the then next Cropp and two thousand in the
                   yeare Seventy five and two thousand in the yeare Seventy Six have-
                   ing received full satisfaction for the same Yet notwithstanding the
                   Said George Robins his Said Obligacon in and by the writeing
                   aforesaid little regarding but deviseing and fraudulently intending
                   him the said Robert Williams of the said six thousand pounds of
                   tobacco to him due as aforesaid Subtilly and craftily to defraud and
                   deceive the said six thousand pounds of tobacco due from the said
                   Slauter and Norman or the Order of Court aforesaid hath not made
                   over according to the said writeing though often thereunto requested,
                   but the same to make Over hath hitherto denyed and refused and
                   still doth deny and refuse Whereupon the said Robert saith he is
                   dampnified and hath losse to the value of tenn thousand pounds of
                   tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
                    And the Said George Robins by Mathew Warde his Attorny
                   cometh & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty
                   to imparle here untill next Provinciall Court the same day is given
                   to both parties here the 14th April 1676
                    Afterwards to wit came the said Robert Williams by his Attorny
                   aforesaid and Offered himselfe against the said George Robins in
                   the plea aforesaid but the said George came not but made default.
                   Therefore it is granted by the Court here that the Said Robert re-
                   cover against the said George aswe!l the said Summe of six thousand
                   pounds of tobacco for his damages Occasioned by the trespas afore-
                   said as also the sume of six hundred twenty Seaven pounds of to-
                   bacco costs of suite.

                  Gerard Slye John Allen late of Charles County Gent was attached
                      agt to answer unto Gerard Slye in a plea of trespas upon
                  John Allen the case.
                             And whereupon the Said Gerard by Robert Carvile
                   his Attorny Complaineth that whereas the Said John the eighth &
                   twentith day of May in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six
                   hundred Seventy foure was & stood indebted unto him the said
                   Gerard in divers summes and quantities of tobacco for divers goods
                   wares and merchandizes by him the said Gerard to the aforesaid
                   John before that time Sold and delivered a particular whereof is
                   here in Court produced In consideration whereof the said John did
                   assume upon himself e and to the said Gerard did faithfully promise
                   that he the said John the Summe of tenn thousand nine hundred
                   and forty pounds of tobacco to him the said Gerard when he should