Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     323

        Cheseldyn his Attorny complaineth that whereas the Said Arthur Liber N N
        the ninetenth day of November in the yeare of Our Lord One
        thousand six hundred Seventy foure Stood indebted to the Said
        John for divers goods & merchandizes then Sold and delivered unto
        the said Arthur amounting in the whole to the summe of nine hun-
        dred pounds of tobacco a particular whereof is here in Court pro-
        duced in consideration whereof the said Arthur did assume upon
        himselfe & to the said John did faithfully promise that he the said
        Arthur when thereunto required the same to him the said John
        would well & truly content & pay notwithstanding which the said
        Arthur the said summe of nine hundred pounds of tobacco accord-
        ing to his promise hath not paid to him the said John but the same
        to pay hitherto hath & Still doth deny to the damage of the said
        John the summe of Eighteen hundred pounds of tobacco & thereupon
        he bringeth his suite.
          And the said Arthur by John Jones his Attorny cometh & de-
        fendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of Speake-
        ing hereunto untill the next Court & it is granted him the same day
        is given to both partyes.
          Now here at this day to wit the nine & twentith day of November
        Anno 1676 came the said John Denis by his Attorny aforesaid and
        offered himself against the said Arthur in the plea aforesaid but
        the said Arthur came not but made default whereupon it is granted
        by the Court here that the said John Denis recover against the said
        Arthur aswell the summe of nine hundred pounds of tobacco for his
        damages occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as also the summe of
        five hundred thirty six pounds of tobacco. costs of Suite & the said
        Arthur in mercy.

        John Baker
        at suite of
        John Quigley
       Thomas ffisher
            agt
       Daniel Clarke
       Thomas Walker
            agt
       Wm Carde & Jno Robinson
       George Robotham
           agt
       Wm Young
       Vincent Lowe
           agt
       Henry Mitchell
       Walter Carr
           agt
       John Stansby