254       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N  nesse forty pounds of tobacco All which summes amount in the
                    whole to the summe of fourteen hundred forty five pounds of tobacco
                    Yet notwithstanding the Said John his promise and assumption
                    aforesd little regarding but deviseing and fraudulently intending him
                    the Said Richard in this case craftily and Subtilly to defraud and
                    deceive of the said fourteen hundred eighty five pounds of tobacco,
                    the said Summe of fourteen hundred eighty five pounds of tobacco
                    to him the Said Richard though often thereunto requested hath not
                    paid or Satisfied but the Same to pay hath hitherto denyed and Still
                    doth deny whereupon the said Richard saith he is damnified two
                    thousand five hundred pouuds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth
                    his suite.
                     And the said John by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh &
                    defendeth the force & injury when &c and Saith he did not assume
                    upon himself e in manner & forme as the Said Richard hath above
                    declared against him & of this he putts himselfe upon the Country
                    and the plaintiff also. Whereupon Comand is given to the Sheriff
                    of St Maries County that he cause to come here twelve &c by whom
                    &c to recognize &c who neither &c because as well &c. 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 Richard and John by their Attornyes aforesaid and the
                p. 159 jurors likewise came to witt William Abestone John Askin Wm
                    King, Henry Rider, James Cleft Richard Atwood Thomas Potter
                    Richard Chilman Wm Newport Giles Blizard, Robert Large &
                    Nicholas Guither who being impannelled Sumoned and Sworne to
                    say the truth in the Premisses upon their Oathes doe Say Wee the
                    jurors find the ballance of both actions for each of them, paying
                    their owne costs of Suite, Whereupon it is granted by the Court here
                    that the said John Warwick and the said Richard Ridgell as to their
                    actions aforesaid goe without day and that neither the said Richard
                    nor John take ought thereby.

                   John Jourdyne Pope Alvey late of st Maries County otherwise called
                      agt Pope Alvey of Brettons Bay in the Province of
                  Pope Alvey  Maryland Planter was Suthoned to answer unto
                              John Jordaine Gent of a plea that he render unto
                    him the summe of One thousand two hundred pounds of tobacco
                    which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth.
                     And whereupon the said John by Robert Carvile his Attorny
                    saith that whereas the Said Pope upon the fourth day of August
                    in the yeare of Our Lord 1675 by his certaine bill or writeing Obliga-
                    tory sealed with the Seale of him the Said Pope and here in Court
                    produced whose date is the day and yeare abovesaid did confesse
                    and acknowledge himselfe to owe and stand indebted unto the said
                    John in the full & just Summe of twelve hundred pounds of good