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        & caske according to the Act of Assembly to be paid unto the said Liber N N
        Thomas Gaiter his heirs executrs admrs or assignes upon all demands

        in Some convenient place in the County aforesaid To the which pay-
        ment well and truly to be made the Said Marmaduke did bind him-
        selfe his heirs executors & admrs firmly by those presents notwith-
        standing which the Said Marmaduke the Said Summe of foure and
        twenty hundred pounds of tobacco to him the said Thomas accord-
        ing to the tenor of the Said writeing obligatory hath not paid though
        often demanded but the same to pay hath refused and as yet doth
        refuse to pay the Same whereupon the Said Thomas Saith he is
        dampnified & hath lost to the value of three thousand pounds of
        tobacco & thereupon he produceth his Suite.
          And the Said Marmaduke by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny
        cometh & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty
        to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court the same day is
        given to both parties.
          Now here at this day to wit the Six & twentith day of November
        in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the Said
        Thomas by his Attorny aforesaid and offered himselfe against the
        Said Marmaduke in the plea aforesaid but the Said Marmaduke
        Came not but made default. Therefore it is Considered by the Court
        here that the Said Thomas Galter recover against the Said Marma- p. 18
        duke Seme aswell the summe of foure and twenty hundred pounds
        of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the Summe of five hundred
        thirty Six pounds of tobacco costs of Suite.

       Thomas Mountfort This cause being upon ejectment betweene Ed-
            agt ward Roe and John Boone Ordered that a resur
        Samuel Hattonvey be made of the lands in question and a jury
        be impannelled of the neighbourhood a Certifi
       cate thereof to be returned at the next Provinciall Court.

        John Allen   Richard Boughton late of Ann Arundell County
          agt otherwise called Richard Boughton of Charles
     Richard Boughton  County in the Province of Maryland Gent was
                     Sumöned to answer unto John Allen in a plea
        that he render unto him the summe of two thousand One hundred
        and fifty pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth and unjustly
        deteineth
          And whereupon the Said John Allen by Keneim Cheseldyn his
        Attorny Saith that whereas the Said Richard Boughton the Second
        day of April in the yeare One thousand six hundred Sixty nine did
        by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of him
        the Said Richard and here in Court produced whose date is the
        Same day and yeare abovewritten bind himself e his heirs executrs
        admrs or assignes to pay unto John Allen of London merchant him