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        and yeare abovewritten did acknowledge himselfe to owe and be truly Liber N N
        indebted unto the said John Staynes of the Clifts in the County of p. 147
        Ca!vert merchant in fourteene hundred & eighty pounds of good
        sound merchantable well conditioned tobacco & caske to containe the
        same, to be paid to the said John Staynes or to his certaine Attorny
        his executors administrators or assignes upon the tenth day of Octo-
        ber then next ensueing the date of the said bill in some convenient
        place in the County aforesaid, to which payment well and truly to
        be made & done the said John Rawlings did bind himse!fe his heirs
        executors and admrs firmly by those presents notwithstanding the
        Said John Rawlings the said summe of fourteene hundred and eighty
        pounds of tobacco to him the said John Staynes hath not paid al-
        though often demanded but the same to pay hath refused and Still
        doth refuse, whereupon the said John Staynes saith he is dampnified
        and hath losse to the value of three thousand pounds of tobacco &
        caske and thereupon he bringeth his suite.
          And the said John Rawlings by Robert Ridgely his Attorny corn-
        eth and defendeth the force and injury when &c and saith nothing
        in barre or avoidance of the action aforesd of him the said John
        Staynes in forme aforesaid whereupon the said John Staynes re-
        maineth against the said John Rawlings thereupon undefended.
        Therefore it is granted by the Court here to wit the fourtenth day
        of April in the first yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Balte-
        more &c Annoq Dom 1676. that the said John Staynes recover
        against the said John Rawlings aswell the summe of fourteene hun-
        dred & eighty pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe
        of six hundred forty five pounds of tobacco costs of suite, but so
        as execution thereof cease untill the tenth day of October next.

        Thomas Notley Henry Bonner late of Charles County otherwise
            agt called Henry Bonner of Charles County in the
      Henry Bonner Province of Maryland Gent was Sumoned to an-
                   swer unto Thomas Notley of a plea that he render
        unto him the just summe of foure hundred & flinty pounds of lawfull
        mony of England which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth.
          And whereupon the Said Thomas Notley by Robert Ridgely his
        Attorny Saith that whereas the said Henry Bonner the tenth day
        of January in the yeare of Our Lord 1672 by his certaine writeing
        Obligatory Sealed with the seale of him the said Henry & here in
        Court produced whose date is the day and yeare aforesaid did ac-
        knowledge himself e to be holden & firmly bound unto the said Thomas
        in the just summe of foure hundred & ninty pounds of lawfull mony
        of England due to be paid unto him the said Thomas Notley his
        certaine Attorny his executors admrs or assignes for the true pay-
        ment whereof well & truly to be made, he the said Henry Bonner did
        bind himselfe his heirs executors & admrs together with all & singular