174        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N  dampnified and hath losse to the value of foure thousand pounds
                   of tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
                    And the said Henry by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny corneth and
                   defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth license to im-
                   parle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court the same day is given
                   to both parties.
                    Now here at this day to witt the thirtenth day of April in the
                   yeare of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seventy Six Came
                   the Said Gerard Slye by his Attorny aforesaid and Offered him-
                   selfe against the Said Henry in the plea aforesaid but the said
                   Henry came not but made default Therefore it is granted by the
                   Court here that the said Gerard Slye recover against the Said Henry
                   Bonner aswell the summe of four thousand One hundred ninty Six
                   pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of Six hun-
                   dred thirty three pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

                   Elizabeth King Richard Meekins of Dorchester County planter
                       agt was attached to answer unto Elizabeth King of
                Richard MeekinsJ the Said County Spinster in a plea of trespas upon
                              the case
                    Whereupon the said Elizabeth King by her Attorny George
                   Thompson Saith that the said Richard Meekins the tenth day of
                   ffebruary Anno 1674 in consideration that the said Elizabeth King
                   would Service him the Said Meekins from the day of the date above
                   Specified the full and just terme of nine months in Such Service and
                   imployrnent as was fitting and beseerning a woman to doe he the
                   said Meekins did then assume upon himselfe and to the said Eliza-
                   beth King did faithfully promise that he the said Meekins would
                   upon all demands make true faithfull honest and convenient pay of
                   Seaven hundred pounds of tobacco & caske and at the expiration of
                   the said nine months the said Richard Meekins did then further
                   entreate her the said Elizabeth King to tarry with him the said
                   Meekins faithfully promiseing to allow her One hundred pounds of
                   tobacco for every month the said Elizabeth King Should tarry with
               p. 110  him the said Meekins whereupon the said Elizabeth King did tarry and
                   serve him the said Richard Meekins as aforesaid two months longer
                   Notwithstanding the Said Richard Meekins his faithfull promise and
                   assumption nothing regarding but endeavouring and fraudulently
                   intending her the said Elizabeth King of the said tobacco due for
                   Service to deceive amounting unto nine hundred pounds of tobacco
                   hath not as yet paid any part or parcell thereof although often there-
                   unto required but the same to pay hath altogether denyed and refused
                   and as yet denyeth and refuseth Whereupon the said Elizabeth King
                   Saith she is dampnified and hath damage to the value of eighteen
                   hundred pounds of tobacco and caske and thereupon she brings her
                   action.