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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 |
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