240       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

             Liber N N said Condition of the said writeing Obligatory mentioned nothing
                    in barr thereof saith, wherefore it is considered by the Court here
                    that the said Thomas Bell & Philip ffrench & company as to the said
                    summe of twelve thousand two hundred & three pounds of tobacco
                    against the said John remaine wholly undefended, and that the said
                    Thomas Bell & Philip ffrench & Company recover against the said
                    John Rawlings aswell the said summe of twelve thousand two hun-
                    dred and three pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the
                    summe of six hundred pounds of tobacco for their costs and Charges
                    in this behalfe expended and the said John in mercy &c.
                               Taken and acknowledged before Us
                               the 23th November 1675.
                                                   Philip Calvert
                                                   Jesse Wharton.

                    Charles Boteler   Nehemiah Blackistone late of st Maries
                    agt County otherwise called Nehemiah Blackis-
                    Nehemiah Blackistone tone of st Maries County in the Province of
                                   Maryland Gent was summoned to answer
                    unto Charles Boteler of a plea that he render unto him the full and
                    just summe of nine hundred & thirty pounds of good sound tobacco
                    & caske which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth.
                     And whereupon the said Charles Boteler in his owne proper person
                    complaineth that whereas the aforesaid Nehemiah Blackistone upon
                    the sevententh day of October in the yeare of Our Lord 1674 by
                    his certaine bill or writeing Obligatory sealed with the seale of him
                    the said Nehemiah & here in Court produced whose date is the day
                    and yeare aforesaid did owe and stand indebted unto Charles Boteler
                    of Calvert County in the said Province in the full and just summe
                    of nine hundred and thirty pounds of good tobacco and caske, for
                    the payment whereof well and truly to be made upon demand in
                    St Maries County aforesaid unto the said Charles Boteler his heirs
                    executors administrators & assignes he did bind himself e his heirs
                    executors and admrs firmly by the same bill Yet the said Nehemiah
                    though often thereunto required the aforesd nine hundred & thirty
                    pounds of tobacco to the aforesaid Charles Boteler hath not paid
                    according to the tenor forme & effect of the same bill but the same
                    to pay hath refused & as yet doth refuse whereupon he saith he is
                    dampnified & hath losse to the value of twelve hundred pounds of
                    tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                     And the said Nehemiah by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny corn-
                    eth and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth lib-
                    erty of speakeing hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court & it is
                    granted him the same day is given to the said Charles.—Now here
                    at this day to witt the fourtenth day of April in the first yeare of
                 152 the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom 1676.