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        parle hereunto untill the next Court and it is granted him the same Liber N N
        day is given to the said Marmaduke.
          Now here at this day to witt the tenth day of April in the first p. 168
        yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom
        1676 came the Said Marmaduke by his Attorny aforesaid and offered
        himself e against the Said Arthur in the plaint aforesaid but the said
        Arthur came not but made default Therefore it is granted by the
        Court here that the said Marmaduke recover against the said Arthur
        aswell the Summe of nine hundred Seventy three pounds of tobacco
        the debt aforesaid as also the Summe of five hundred thirty six
        pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

       Garret     Vansweringen Memorandum That on the twelfth day of
             agt ffebruary in the first yeare of the Dominion
        Mathias Decosta     of Charles Lord Baltemore &c his Lopp Sent
        his writ of Scire facias to the Sheriff of
        St Maries County in these words vizt Charles Absolute Lord and
        Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of
        Baltemore To the Sheriff of st Maries County greeting Whereas
        heretofore to wit the fourtenth day of December 1674 it was
        comãnded you that you attach any the goods chattells or Creditts
        of Mathias Decosta if they Should be found in your Bailiwick to the
        value of ten thousand pounds of tobacco and when you had the
        same so attached or any part thereof the same in your custody you
        Keepe untill the said Mathias should by himselfe or his Attorny
        appeare before Our justices of Our Provinciall Court the 9th day of
        ffebruary then next following to answer the suite of Garret Van-
        sweringen in a plea of debt at which said ninth day of ffebruary
        the said Mathias came not but made default and you haveing made
        returne to Our said justices that you have attached in the hands of
        the said Garrett Vansweringen of the estate of the said Mathias
        Decosta a bill due by Wm Thomas for two thousand pounds of to-
        bacco, a bill due by Nicholas Guither for foure hundred pounds of
        tobacco a bill due by Thomas Mathews for foure hundred pounds
        of tobacco a bill due by Henry Rider for foure hundred pounds of
        tobacco Wee therefore Comand you that by good & lawfull men of
        your Bailiwick you make Knowne unto the said Wm Thomas Nicho-
        las Guither Thomas Mathews and Henry Rider that they be and
        appeare before Our justices of Our Provinciall Court to be holden
        at the Citty of st Maries the fourth day of April next to shew cause
        (if any they have) why the severall & respective summes of tobacco
        aforesaid attached as aforesaid Ought not to be rendred satisfied &
        paid to the said Garrett Vansweringen Att which said fourth day of
        April in the first yeare of his Lofps Dominion &c the same Sheriff
        maketh returne of the writ aforesaid endorsed In presence of Joseph
        Hackney and Edward Sise good and lawfull men of my Bailiwick