Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     255

        sound merchantable leafe tobacco & casque to be paid to the said Liber N N
        John upon the tenth day of October then next ensueing Yet the said
        Pope the said summe of twelve hundred pounds of tobacco to him
        the said John according to the said bill though often thereunto
        required hath not hitherto paid or Satisfied but the same to pay doth
        deny and refuse to the damage of the Said John two thousand
        pounds of tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
          And the Said Pope by John Jones his Attorny cometh and de-
        fendeth the force and injury when &c and Saith nothing in barr or
        avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the said John in forme
        aforesaid brought whereupon the said John Jordaine remaineth
        against the Said Pope thereof undefended Therefore it is granted
        by the Court here to witt the fourtenth day of April in the first yeare
        of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom 1676
        That the said John Jordaine recover against the said Pope Alvey
        aswell the Summe of twelve hundred pounds of tobacco the debt
        aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred ninty five pounds of
        tobacco costs of suite, but so as execution Stay untill the tenth day
        of October next.

        Emauel Ratcliff admr Pope Alvey late of st Maries County other-
          Daniel Gover wise called Pope Alvey of the County of
         agt          st Maries in the Province of Maryland Planter
        Pope Alveywas suthoned to answer unto Emanuel Rat-
        cliff administrator of the goods and chattells
        of Daniel Gover deceased in a plea that he render unto him Sixteen
        hundred pounds of tobacco which from him he unjustly deteineth.
          And whereupon the Said Emanuel by Robert Carvile his Attorny
        saith That whereas the said Pope the ninth day of January Anno
        Doth 1672 by his certaine writeing Obligatory sealed with the seale
        of him the said Pope and here in Court produced whose date is the
        day and yeare abovesaid did bind himselfe his heirs or assignes to
        pay or cause to be paid to him the said Daniel his heirs or assignes
        the full and just Summe of Sixteen hundred pounds of good Sound
        legall tobacco with caske to be paid at some convenient landing in
        Clements Bay or Brettons Bay by the tenth day of October next
        ensueing the date thereof notwithstanding which the said Pope the
        said summe of sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco to him the said
        Daniel in his life time according to the tenor of his Said writeing
        Obligatory nor to the said Emanuel Since his death hath not paid
        though often thereunto required but the same to pay hath altogether
        denyed and Still doth deny whereupon he saith he is dampnified and
        hath losse to the value of three thousand pounds of tobacco and
        thereupon he bringeth his suite. And the Said Emanuel bringeth
        into Court his Letters of administration by which it may appeare
        to the Court here that he is administrator &c