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        merchantable tobacco and caske to be paid unto them the said John Liber N N
        and Garrett their heirs executors administrators or assignes in some
        convenient place in the County aforesaid upon the first day of Janu-
        ary next ensueing notwithstanding which the said Kenelm the afore- p. 144
        said summe of five hundred eighty five pounds of tobacco to them
        the said John and Garrett according to his said writeing Obligatory
        hath not paid but the same to pay hath altogether denyed and Still
        doth deny whereupon they Say they are dampnified and have losse
        to the value of One thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon they
        bring their Suite.
          And the said Kenelm Lochmachling by Benjamin Rozer his At-
        torny cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth
        liberty to imparle hereunto until the next Court and it is granted
        him the same day is given to the said John and Garrett.
          Now here at this day to witt the tenth day of April in the first
        yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom
        1676 came the said John and Garrett by their Attorny aforesaid
        and the said Kenelm by his Attorny came likewise and the said
        Kenelm saith that as to two hundred and fifteene pounds of tobacco
        part of the said summe of five hundred eighty five pounds of tobacco
        in the declaration mentioned he cannot gainsay but the he oweth
        the same to them the said John and Garrett in manner and forme
        as they have declared against him as to three hundred & Seventy
        pounds of tobacco the residue of the said summe of five hundred
        eighty five pounds of tobacco he hath paid. Whereupon it is granted
        by the Court here that the said John and Garrett recover against the
        said Kenelm Lochmachling the Summe of two hundred & fifteene
        pounds of tobacco the remainder of the said summe of five hundred
        eighty five pounds of tobacco as also the summe of
             pounds of tobacco costs of Suite. but So as execution there-
        upon cease untill the tenth day of October next

        Ralph     Hutchinson George Hurlock late of Talbott County planter
             agt was attached to answer unto Ralph Hutchinson
      George Hurlock of New Yorke Gent in a plea of trespas upon
                     the case.
          Whereupon the said Ralph by Vincent Lowe his Attorny com-
        plaineth and Saith that whereas the said George On the nine &
        twentith day of November Annoq Dom 1674 did owe and Stand
        indebted unto him the said Ralph the summe of three thousand
        three hundred pounds of arranocco tobacco and One hundred of
        Sweet sented tobacco as by the accompt here annexed may more fully
        appeare the particulars whereof is there exprest In consideration
        whereof the said George did assume upon himself e and to the said
        Ralph did faithfully promise the aforesaid summe of three thousand
        three hundred pounds of Arranocco tobacco and One hundred pounds