206       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N our Selves could or might doe if Wee were personally present at the
                   doeing thereof Ratifeing and allowing for firme and Stable all and
                   whatsoever Our Said Attorny Shall lawfully doe or cause or procure
                   to be done in or about the premisses by virtue of these presents. In
                   wittnesse whereof Wee have hereunto Sett Our hands and Seales
                   the twelfth day of August in the seaven and twentith yeare of the
                   Reigne of Our Soveraigne Lord King Charles the Second that now
            is &c Annoq Dom 1675         Wm Aubone (sealed)
            Sealed and delivered in     Robt Swaine(sealed)
             the presence of.
                      William brown
                      Cuthbert Bulman
                       Robt Bulman Not: pubi:

                   Thomas Walker Memorandum the three and twentith day of No-
                      agt vember in the 44th ycare of the Domini[on] of
                   John Quigley Caecilius Lord and Proprietary of this Province
                   Att a Provinciall Court held at the Citty of
                   St Maries for the Right Honble the Lord Propry Came here in Court
                   Thomas Walker by Charles Boteler his Attorny and exhibiteth here
                   into Court his certaine bill against John Quigley One of the Attor-
                   nyes of this Court here present in Court of a plea of trespas upon
                   the case.
                    And whereupon the said Thomas Walker by Charles Boteler his
                   Attorny complaineth that whereas the aforesaid John Quigley upon
                   the fourth day of July Anno Dom One thousand six hundred sev-
                   enty five at the Citty of Maries aforesaid in consideration That
                   he the said Thomas Walker being a Bricklayer at the speciall instance
                   and request of him the said John Quigley would worke upon a cer
               p. 132 tame Brickhouse called the Statehouse at st Maries aforesaid which
                   the said John Quigley then had undertaken to erect and build the
                   Said John Quigley did then and there assure upon himselfe and to
                   the said Thomas Walker did faithfully promise, that he the said
                   John Quigley when thereunto required would well & truly Content
                   and pay unto the said Thomas Walker Such a quantity of tobacco
                   as he the Said Thomas Should reasonably deserve to have f or his
                   paines and labour therein And the Said Thomas Walker in fact saith
                   that trusting to the faithfull promise and assumption of him the said
                   John Quigley in that behalfe made as aforesaid did worke as a
                   Bricklayer upon the Said Statehouse from the Said fourth day of
                   July 1675 untill the last day of September in the same yeare for
                   which he doth reasonably deserve to have the summe of Six thou-
                   sand pounds of tobacco and caske Yet the aforesaid John Quigley
                   his promise and assumption aforesaid not regarding but deviseing
                   and fraudulently intending him the Said Thomas Walker in that
                   behalfe craftily to defraud and deceive although often thereunto