Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     199

       Marmaduke Semme Arthur Carleton late of Cecil County Ad- Liber N N
             agt mistr of the Goods & Chattells of Thomas
       Arthur Carleton Admr Carleton deceased was Suthoned to Answer
         Tho: Carletonunto Marmaduke Semme in a plea that he
         render unto him the Sume of foureteene
       hundred pounds of tobacco which from him he unjustly detaineth
         And whereupon the said Marmaduke by Kenelm Cheseldyn his
        Attorney Saith That whereas the said Thomas the fourth day of
        June in the yeare One Thousand Six hundred Seaventy foure did r. 127
        by his certaine writing Obligatory Sealed with the seale of the said
        Thomas here in Court produced whose date is the same day and
        yeare above written did binde himselfe his heyres Execrs Administrs
        or Assigns to pay or cause to be paid unto Marmaduke Semme of
        St George Hundred in St Maryes County in the Province of Mary-
        land Innholder to him his heyres Execrs Admrs or Assignes the full &
        just Sume of fourteene hundred pounds of tobacco sound and Mer-
        chantable in Caske to be paid to the abovesaid Marmaduke Semme
        for Accomodations allready received att his house & to be paid att
        some convenient place in Baltemore County att or before the tenth
        day of October next Ensueing the day of the date thereof Notwith-
        standing which the said Thomas in his life tyme nor the said Arthur
        since his death Admistr of the said Thomas thought often required
        hath not paid to the said Marmaduke, but the same to pay hitherto
        hath & still doth altogether deny to the damage of the said Marma-
        duke the Sume of two Thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he
        bringeth his Suite
         And the said Arthur Carleton by Mathew Warde his Attorney
        cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth lycence
        to Imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court, the same day is
        given to both partyes
         Now here att this day to witt the tenth day of Aprill in the first
        yeare of his Lordshipps Dominion &c Annoq Doni One Thousand
        six hundred Seaventy Six came the said Marmaduke Semme by his
        Attorney aforesaid and offered himself e against the said Arthur
        Carleton in the plea aforesaid, but the said Arthur came not but
        made default whereupon itt is Granted by the Court here, that the
        said Marmaduke Semme Recover against the said Arthur Carleton
        Admr as aforesaid as well the Sume of fourteene hundred pounds
        of tobacco the debt aforesaid As also the Sume of five hundred
        thirty six pounds of tobacco Costs of Suite.

       John  Quigley Randolph Brandt late of the County of Charles
           agst otherwise called Randolph Brandt of Charles
      Randolph Brandt  County in the Province of Maryland genti & Johne
                    Cane of Charles County otherwise called Jane
        [sic] Cane of the same County Planter were Suthoned to Answer