270       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Liber N N  this behalfe to deceive & defraud the said Seven hundred flinty foure
                  pounds of tobacco to him the said James though often demanded
                  hath not paid but the same to pay hath denyed & as yet doth deny
                  to the damage of the said James fifteene hundred pounds of tobacco
                  & Thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
                    And the said John in his proper person cometh and defendeth the
                  force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle here untill
                  next Court and it is granted unto him the same day is given to the
                  said James.
                    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 James by his Attorny aforesd and offered him-
                  selfe against the said John in the plea aforesaid and the said John
                  came likewise and the said John saith nothing in barr or avoidance
                  of the action aforesaid of him the said James in forme aforesaid
                  brought Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the said
                  James Stavely recover against the said John Quigley the summe of
                  Seven hundred flinty foure pounds of tobacco damages occasioned
                  by the trespas aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred twenty
                  eight pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

                  Marmaduke Semmel Arthur Carleton late of Cecil County was Sum-
                      agt moned to answer unto Marmaduke Seme in a
                Arthur Carleton plea that he render unto him the summe of
                                nine hundred Seventy three pounds of tobacco
                  which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth.
                    And whereupon the said Marmaduke by Kenelm Cheseldyn his
                  Attorny saith that whereas the said Arthur the fiftenth day of ffebru-
                  ary in the yeare 1674 did by his certaine writeing Obligatory sealed
                  with the Seale of the said Arthur and here in Court produced whose
                  date is the day and yeare abovewritten acknowledge himself e holden
                  and firmly bounden unto Marmaduke Semme of st Maries County
                  Inholder in the just and full quantity of nine hundred seventy three
                  pounds of good merchantable tobacco in caske to be paid to the said
                  Marmaduke Semme his certaine Attorny his heirs executors admin-
                  istrators or assignes at or before the tenth day of October next:
                  To the which payment well & truly to be made he did bind himselfe
                  his heirs executors administrators firmly by those presents notwith-
                  standing which the said Arthur the said summe of nine hundred
                  Seventy three pounds of tobacco according to the tenor of his Said
                  writeing Obligatory hath not paid though often thereunto required
                  but the same to pay hitherto hath & still doth deny to the damage
                  of the said Marmaduke two thousand pounds of tobacco and there-
                  upon he bringeth his suite.
                    And the said Arthur by Mathew Warde his Attorny cometh and
                  defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty to im