256       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N And the said Pope by John Jones his Attorny cometh and de-
                   fendeth the force & injury when &c and saith nothing in barr or
                   avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the Said Emanuel in forme
                   aforesaid brought whereupon the said Emanuel remaineth against
                   the said Pope thereof undefended Therefore it is granted by the
                   Court here this fourtenth day of April 1676 That the said Emanuel
                   recover against the said Pope aswell the summe of sixteen hundred
                   pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of six hun-
                   dred and three pounds of tobacco costs of suite. but So as execution
                   stay untill the tenth day of October next.

                   Edward Tarleton & Richard Loyd late of st Maries County gent
                     Compa otherwise called Richard Loyd of st Maries
                     agt County in the Province of Maryland was Sum-
                   Richard Lloydoned to answer unto Edward Tarleton and
                   Compa of a plea that he render unto them the
                   full quantity of three thousand three hundred pounds of good Sound
                   merchantable leafe tobacco & caske which to them he oweth & un-
                   justly deteineth.
                     And whereupon the Said Edward & Compa by Robert Ridgely
                   their Attorny Say that whereas the Said Richard the two & twentith
                   day of January 1674 by his certaine bill Obligatory Sealed with the
                   Seale of him the Said Richard and here in Court produced whose
                   date is the day and yeare aforesaid did acknowledge himselfe to be
                   holden and firmly bound unto the Said Edward and Company in the
                   full quantity of three thousand three hundred pounds of good Sound
                   merchantable leafe tobacco & caske for a valuable Consideration
                   already received to be paid to the Said Edward & Company his
                   heirs executrs admrs or certaine Attorny to be paid upon his the Said
                   Richards then dwelling plantation by the tenth of October next
                   ensueing the date thereof To the which payment well & truly to be
                   made the said Richard did bind himselfe his heirs executors admts &
                   assignes firmly by those presents Yet the said Richard Loyd the
                   Said Summe of three thousand three hundred pounds of tobacco to
                   them the said Edward & Company according to the tenor of the Said
                   bill Obligatory though often thereunto required hath not paid but
                   the Same to pay hath denyed and as yet doth deny whereupon the
                   Said Edward & Company Say they are dampnified & have lost to the
                   value of foure thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon they bring
                   their Suite.
                     And the Said Richard by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh
                   and defendeth the force and injury when &c and saith nothing in
                   barr of the action aforesaid of them the said Edward & Company
                   whereupon the said Edward & Compa remaine against the Said
                   Richard thereof undefended Therefore it is granted by the Court
                   here the fiftenth day of April in the first yeare of the Dominion of