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        also the summe of fifteene hundred & Seventeene pounds of tobacco Liber N N
        costs of suite whereof he is convict as by the Record thereof ap- p. 186
        peareth Yet the aforesaid Ralph Blackhall him the said John Quigley
        the damages and costs aforesaid hath not satisfied as by the returne
        of Our writ of fieri facias to you lately directed appeares Wee
        Comand you therefore that you make Knowne to Mary Tilghman
        executx of the last will & testament of the said Richard Tilghman
        deceased & the said John Edmondson that they be & appeare before
        Our justices of Our next Provinciall Court to be holden at Maries
        the two & twentith day of May next to shew cause if any they have
        why execution for the damages & costs aforesaid should not issue
        against them. Att which said two & twentith day of May the Same
        Sheriff maketh returne of the writ aforesaid in these words vizt
        scire fed On John Edmondson non est inventa On Mary Tilghman
        Mr Warde promised faithfully to appeare for her being his Mother.
        Vincent Lowe Sheriff.
          Now here at this day to wit the 27th day of May in the yeare afore-
        said Came the said John Quigley by Robert Carvile his Attorny to
        prosecute the same writ which being then with the returne thereof
        made by the Said Sheriff read it is adjudged by the Court here that
        the returne thereof made, is good and that the defendants Ought
        thereupon to appeare. Whereupon the said John Edmondson by
        Benjamin Rozer his Attorny came but the said Mary Tilghman
        came not, and the said John Edmondson not haveing showne suf-
        ficient cause to the Court here why execution for the damages and
        costs aforesaid should not issue against them It is granted by the
        Court here that the said John Quigley recover agt the said John
        Edmondson & Mary Tilghman executrix of the last will and testa-
        ment of the said Richard Tilghman aswell the damages & costs afore-
        said as also his costs of Suite sithence expended and laid Out. After-
        wards to wit the same 27th day of May in the yeare aforesd Came
        the said John Edmondson by his Attorny aforesaid and prayed his
        Lopps writ of Supersedeas upon the judgment aforesaid & writ of
        Error which is granted unto him he the said Jno Edmondson giveing
        Security for the payment of what costs shall be by the said John
        Quigley recovered against him upon the said writ of Supersedeas &
        writ of Error, and that the errors be assigned and the cause heard
        this present Sessions of Assembly.
          Then came the said John Edmondson with Howell Powell & John
        Stephens his suertyes & the said John Edmondson did acknowledge
        to owe unto his Lopp the Lord Proprietary the sume of fifty pounds
        sterling and the said Howell Powell & John Stephens the summe of
        five & twenty pounds Sterling apeice to be levyed of their goods &
        chattells Lands & Tenemts In case the said John Edmondson doe not
        pay the said John Quigley what costs shall be by him the said John
        Quigley recovered against the said John Edmondson upon the said
        writ of Supersedeas & writ of Error.