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         hundred pounds of good Sound merchantable tobacco and caske to Liber N N
         be paid to the Said Robert upon demand, Yet the said Thomas in
         his life time nor the said Arthur Since his death to whom adminis-
         tration of all and Singular the goods chattells and creditts of the
         said Thomas is committed the said summe of eight hundred pounds
         of tobacco though often thereunto required hath not paid but the
         same to pay hath denyed and as yet doth deny to the damage of the
         said Robert sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco and thereupon he
         bringeth his Suite.
          And the Said Arthur Carleton by Mathew Warde his Attorny
         cometh and defendeth the force and injury &c and prayeth liberty
         to imparle hereunto untill next Court and it is granted him the same
         day is given to both parties.
          Now here at this day to witt the thirtenth day of April in the first
         ycare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom
         One thousand six hundred Seventy Six came the said Robert Car-
         vile in his proper person and offered himself e against the said Arthur p. 136
         in the plea aforesaid but the said Arthur came not but made default
         Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the said Robert
         Carvile recover of the estate of the Said Thomas Carleton aswell the
         sume of eight hundred pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also
         the summe of five hundred sixty Seaven pounds of tobacco costs
         of suite.

        ffrancis Maudel Ambrose Bayley late of Charles County otherwise
            agt called Ambrose Bayley of Charles County Car-
      Ambrose Bayly     penter was Summoned to answer unto ffrancis
                   Maude of Calvert County of a plea that he render
         unto him the full and just summe of fourteen hundred pounds of
         good sound merchantable tobacco and caske which to him he doth
         Owe and from him unjustly doth deteine
          And whereupon the said ffrancis Maude by Charles Boteler his
         Attorny saith that whereas the aforesaid Ambrose Bayly upon the
         three and twentith day of May in the yeare of Our Lord One thou-
         sand Six hundred Seventy-three by his certaine bill or writeing
         Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of him the Said Ambrose and by
         the Said ffrancis here in Court produced whose date is the day and
         yeare aforesaid did bind himselfe his heirs executors and adminis-
         trators to pay or cause to be paid unto ffrancis Maude of Calvert
         County his heirs executors administrators or assignes the full &
         just quantity of fourteen hundred pounds of good Sound mer-
         chantable tobacco and caske which said tobacco the said Ambrose
         did engage to pay in his Excellency Charles Calvert hands upon
         demand Yet the said Ambrose Bayley although often thereunto
         required the Said Summe of fourteen hundred pounds of tobacco