202        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N Benony Twenty Thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he brings
                               his Suitc &c

                    And the said Nicholas Haggett 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 Lordpps Dominion &c Annoq Doni One Thousand six
                  hundred Seaventy six came the said Nicholas Haggett by his At-
                  torney aforesaid, & saith he is not Informed of any Answer there-
              p. 129  unto to make Therefore itt is Considered by The Court here that
                  the said Benony Eaton Recover against the said Nicholas Haggett
                  the said Sume of One Thousand pounds of tobacco his debt afore-
                  said As also the Sume of six hundred twenty Six pounds of tobacco
                  Costs of Suite And the said Nicholas Haggett in mercy.

                  Benony Eaton 1 wm Hemsley late of Talbott County otherwise called
                     agt Wm Hemsley of Wye River in Talbott County in
                Wm Hemsley j    the Province of Maryland genti was Sumon'd to
                            Answer unto Benony Eaton Marryner in a plea that
                  he render unto him the Sufhe of Eight Thousand five hundred &
                  nine pounds of tobacco which to him he owes & unjustly detaines &c
                    And whereupon the said Benony by John Rousby his Attorney
                  saith That whereas the said Wm the tenth day of July in the yeare
                  of our Lord One Thousand six hundred Seaventy foure by two
                  certaine Bills Obligatory Sealed with the Seales of the said Wm here
                  in Court produced whose dates are the day & yeare abovesaid did
                  binde himself e his heyres Exers Admistrs or Assignes well & truely
                  to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Benony the full & just Sume
                  of Eight Thousand five hundred & nine pounds of good sound Mer-
                  chantable tobacco in Caske to be paid upon demand after the tenth
                  day of October then next Ensueing the date of those prsents Not-
                  withstanding which the said Wm the said Suffie of Eight Thousand
                  five hundred & nine pounds of tobacco to the said Benony according
                  to the tenour of the said Bills though often thereunto required hath
                  not paid but the same to the said Benony to pay the said Wm hitherto
                  hath denyed & still doth deny & refuse to the damage of the said
                  Benony sixteene Thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bring-
                  eth his Suite
                    And the said Wm Hemsley by Mathew Warde his Attorney cometh
                  & defendeth the force & injury when &c And saith he is not Informed
                  of any Answer thereunto to make therefore itt is considered by the
                  Court here that the said Benony Eaton recover against the said
                  Wm Hemsley the said Sume of Eight Thousand five hundred & nine
                  pounds of tobacco his debt aforesaid As also the Sume of six hun-
                  dred twenty six pounds of tobacco Costs of Suite