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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676. 245 Peter & here in Court produced whose date is the day and yeare Liber N N aforesaid did acknowledge himself e also to be holden and firmly 154 bound unto the said Robert in the full and just Summe of foure hundred pounds of good sound merchantable tobacco and caske to be paid to the said Robert or to his certaine Attorny his heirs execu- tors admrs or assignes in Some convenient place in St Maries or Calvert County at or upon the tenth day of November next ensueing the date thereof To the which payment well & truly to be made the Said Peter did bind himselfe his heirs executrs & admrs firmly by those presents which Said two Summes amount to in the whole the summe of Sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco Yet the aforesaid Peter in his life time nor the Said Thomas Since his death to whom administration of all and Singular the goods chattells and creditts of the Said Peter since his death was committed the Said Sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco according to the tenor of the Said Sev- erall writeings obligatory to him the said Robert though often there- unto required have not paid but the same to pay have refused & denyed and as yet to doe the same doe refuse and deny whereupon the said Robert saith he is dampnified and hath lost to the value of two thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite. And the Said Thomas Griffin by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth lib- erty to imparle hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court. the same day is given to both partyes. 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 Dom 1676 came the Said Robert in his pp person and offered him- self e against the said Thomas in the plea aforesaid and the said Thomas by his said Attorny came also and the Said Thomas Saith nothing in barr or avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the said Robert Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the said Robert Ridgely recover against the estate of the Said Peter Eure aswell the summe of Sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred thirty six pounds of tobacco costs of Suite. but so as execution thereof cease untill assetts come to the possession of the said Administrator. John Garnish Thomas Griffin admr of all & Singular the agt goods Chattells & Creditts of Peter Eure de- Thomas Griffin admr ceased was summoned to answer unto John Peter EureGarnish of a plea that he render unto him the full and just summe of eight hundred forty seaven pounds of good Sound tobacco in casque which from him he unjustly deteineth And whereupon the said John Garnish by Robert Ridgely his Attorny Saith that whereas the said Peter in his life time to wit |
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