30        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

            Liber N N Thomas recover against the Said Richard aswell the summe of eight
                   hundred pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the Summe
                   of                    pounds of tobacco cost of Suite

                   Mr Robt Ridgely.
                    I pray be pleased to appeare for me in a Suite depending this April
                   Court agt me cothenced by Mr Thomas Jones and to confesse judgmt
                   for Eight hundred pounds of tobacco with a cessat executio till
                   November next wch is all at prsent from
                   April 9th 1675.    yor Very respective & Obliged ffreind
                                         & Servt.
                                                   Ri: Boughton

                   Henry Verburgh Memorandum that at this Court vizt the fiftenth
                      agt day of ffebruary in the 43th yeare of the Dominion
                   John Quigley of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom One thousand six
                   hundred Seventy foure Came Capt Henry Ver
                   burgh Comander of the Shipp Queene of Sweedland by Robert
                   Ridgely his Attorny and exhibiteth to the Court here his certaine
                   bill against John Quigley gent One of the Attornyes of this Court
                   in his proper person present of a plea that he render unto him the
                   just and full quantity of two thousand five hundred pounds of good
                   Sound merchantable tobacco in caske which to him he oweth & un-
                   justly deteineth.
                    And whereupon the said Henry by Robert Ridgely his Attorny
                   Saith that whereas the Said John Quigley the two and twentith day
                   of August One thousand Six hundred Seventy and foure by his
                   certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of him the Said
                   John and here in Court produced whose date is the day and yeare
                   aforesaid did bind himselfe his heirs executors and admrs to pay or
                   cause to be well and truly paid unto the said Henry his heirs executors
                   admrs or assignes the just and full quantity of two thousand five
                   hundred pounds of good Sound merchantable tobacco in caske due
                   to be paid at or upon the tenth day of November next ensueing the
                   date thereof convenient to the waterside either in Charles County
                   or St Maries County Yet the aforesaid John Quigley the said two
                   thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco to him the Said Henry
               p. 20  according to the Tenor of his of his Said bill though often thereunto
                   required hath not paid but the same to pay hath denyed and as yet
                   doth deny whereupon the said Henry Saith he is dampnified & hath
                   lost to the value of three thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon
                   he bringeth his Suite.
                    And the Said John Quigley by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh
                   & defendeth the force and injury &c and prayeth liberty of Speakeing
                   hereunto until the next Provincial Court the same day is given to
                   both parties
                    Now here at this day to wit the foure and twentith day of Novem