Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     297

        the said Bill hath not paid to him the said Thomas Cosden though Liber N N
        often thereunto required But the Same to him to pay hitherto hath
        & Still doth deny & Refuse to pay the same Whereupon the said
        Thomas Cosden saith he is damnified & hath losse to the Vallue
        of Six Thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his
        Suite
                                    pledgde pf Jno Doo
                                           Rich:     Roo
                                    George Parker p quer

        John Baker plt Case for four Thousand Sixty two pounds of
            agt     Tobacco:
      John Quigley deft And the said John Quigley in his proper per-
                     son cometh & defendeth the force and injury &c
      And Saith that he did not assume upon himselfe nor to the Said
      John Baker make Such promise in manner & forme as the said
      John Baker hath aboue imposed upon him & of this he puts himselfe
      upon the Country And the Said John Baker likewise
                                           Ro:  Carvile
                                           Ridgely

        Thomas Peighen Memorandum That Thomas Peighen Master of p. 182
         agt the Shipp Ruth of London petitioneth his Lopp
      George ffulford  the Lord Proprietary of this Province in these
                    words vizt
        To the Rt Honble Charles Absolute Lord & Propry of the Provinces
              of Maryland & Ava!on Lord Baltemore &c.
        The humble Petition of Thomas Peighin Master of the Shipp
                        the Ruth of London
        Sheweth, That One George ffulford of London merchant by his
        Charterparty beareing date the 27th day of September 1675 did
        hire the Said Shipp for eight months certaine & foure months un-
        certaine at 65 £ p month and freighted her for a voyage for Vir-
        ginia or Maryland & did covenant to victuall & mann her & to pay
        all Seamens wages port dutyes & other necessary charges for Sloopes
        &c the Said 65 £ p month to be paid in London within twenty dayes
        notice of the Shipps arrivall in Maryland wth Other Covenants in the
        Same contained for performance whereof the Said ffulford bound
        himselfe his executrs admrs & goods to the said Master in One thou-
        sand pounds Sterling.
          That in pursuance of the said Charterparty the said W proceeded
        On his intended voyage & hath been by distresse of weather forced
        to Barbadoes & hath been Out these eight months & being now ar-
        rived in this Province One Edward Leach merchant being Attorny
        Agent or ifactor for the Said ffu!ford hath demanded the Said goods
        fraighted On board the said Shipp most of which the said Master