230        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

          Liber N N   and Subtilly to defraud and deceive although often thereunto re-
                  quired the said John hath in no manner paid nor contented, but him
                  to pay hath hitherto refused and as yet doth refuse whereupon the
                  said John Roberts saith he is dampnified & hath losse to the value
                  of ten thousand pounds of tobacco, And thereupon he bringeth his
                  suite.
                    And the said John Quigley by Robert Ridgely his Attorny cometh
                  and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth licence to
                  imparle hereunto untill the next Court and it is granted unto him
                  the same day is given to the said John Roberts.
                    Now here at this day to witt the fourtenth day of April in the
                  first yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
                  Doth 1676 came the said parties by their said Attornyes and the said
                  John Quigley Saith that he did not assume and promise in manner
                  and forme as the said John Roberts above against him hath declared,
                  and of this he putts himselfe upon the Country and the plaintiff like-
                  wise Therefore Comand is given to the Sheriff of st Maries County
                  that he cause to come here twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c
                  to recognize &c because aswell &c
                    At which said fourtenth day of April in the yeare aforesaid came
                  aswell the parties aforesaid and the jurors of that jury likewise
                  came to witt William Abestone John Askin, Thomas Stonestreet
                  Henry Rider, Richard Ridgell Richard Attwood Thomas Potter
                  Richard Chilman Wm Newport Giles Blizard Robert Large and
                  Nicholas Guither who being impannelled sumöned & Sworne to say
                  the truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe Say Wee find for
                  the plaintiff two thousand foure hundred pounds of tobacco for three
                  months worke with costs of Suite. Whereupon it is granted by the
                  Court here that the said John Roberts recover against the said John
                  Quigley aswell the summe of two thousand foure hundred pounds of
                  tobacco damages occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as also the
                  summe of thirteene hundred eighty nine pounds of tobacco costs of
                  suite.

                  John     Staynes John Rawlings late of the County of Dorchester
                      agt Carpenter otherwise called John Rawilings of the
                John Rawlins    County of Dorchester in the Province of Maryland
                            was sumöned to answer unto John Staynes of a plea
                  that he render unto him foureteene hundred and eighty pounds of
                  good sound merchantable well conditioned tobacco and caske to Con-
                  taine the same which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth &c.
                    And whereupon the said John Staynes by George Parker his
                  Attorny Saith that whereas the said John Rawlings the thirtenth
                  day of May Annoq Dom One thousand six hundred seventy foure
                  by his certaine bill Obligatory Sealed with the seale of him the said
                  John Rawlings and here in Court produced whose date is the day