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        be thereunto required would well and faithfully content and pay Liber N N
        notwithstanding which the said John his promise and assumption
        aforesaid not regarding but Subtilly & fraudulently intending him
        the said Gerard in this behalf e craftily and Subtilly to deceive and
        defraud the aforesaid tenn thousand nine hundred & forty pounds
        of tobacco to him the said Gerard though often thereunto required
        hath not paid but the Same to pay hath altogether refused and denyed
        and as yet deny Whereupon he saith he is dampnified and hath losse p. 109
        to the value of twenty thousand pounds of tobacco And thereupon he
        bringeth his Suite.
          And the Said John Allen by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh
        and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty to
        imparle hereunto untill next Court the same day is given to both
        parties.
          Now here at this day to wit the thirtenth day of April in the first
        yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Annoq Dom One thousand Six
        hundred Seventy Six came the said Gerard Slye by his Attorny
        aforesaid and Offered himself e against the said John Allen in the
        plea aforesaid but the said John Came not but made default There-
        fore it is granted by the Court here that the Said Gerard Slye
        recover against the said John Allen aswell the summe of tenn thou-
        sand nine hundred and forty pounds of tobacco damages Occasioned
        by the trespas aforesaid as also the Summe of five hundred sixty
        Seaven pounds of tobacco costs of Suite.

        Gerard Slye 1 Henry Bonner late of Charles County otherwise
        agt called Henry Bonner of Charles County in the Prov-
        Henry Bonner j ince of Maryland Gent was Sumoned to answer unto
                  Gerard Slye in a plea that he render unto him the
        Summe of foure thousand One hundred and ninty six pounds of
        tobacco which he oweth & unjustly deteineth.
          And the said Gerard by Robert Carvile his Attorny saith that he
        the said Henry the thirtith day of May in the yeare of Our Lord
        One thousand six hundred Seventy two by his certaine writeing
        Obligatory sealed with the seale of him the Said Henry and here
        in Court produced whose date is the same day and yeare above-
        written was holden and firmly bounden unto him the Said Gerard
        Slye in the just Summe of foure thousand One hundred & flinty six
        pounds of good Sound bright and merchantable tobacco in caske
        to be paid to him the said Gerard Slye his heirs executrs admrs &
        assignes out of his Cropp in Charles County aforesaid upon the
        tenth day of October next ensueing the date thereof notwithstanding
        which the Said Henry the Said Summe of foure thousand One
        hundred & ninty Six pounds of tobacco to him the Said Gerard hath
        not paid though often thereunto required but the same to pay hath
        altogether denyed and as yet doth deny whereupon he saith he is