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        the said James Ringold, with Henry Hosier and Robert Hood his Liber N N
        suertyes and did acknowledge to owe unto John Wedge the summe
        of two and twenty thousand pounds of tobacco to be levyed of their
        goods & Chattells lands or Tenements to the use of the said John
        Wedge in case the said James Ringold doe not prosecute his writ of
        Error against the said John Wedge with effect & also satisfie & pay
        if the judgment be affirmed all and singular the debts damages &
        costs adjudged or to be adjudged upon the former judgment & all
        cost & damages also to be awarded for the delaying of Execution
        Unlesse the said James Ringold doe pay the same or render his body
        to prison.

        Wm Boareman Charles Clarke & Pope Alvey late of st Maries
           agt County otherwise called Charles Clarke & Pope
        Charles Clarke & Alvey of st Maries County in the Province of
          Pope Alvey Maryland were Suthoned to answer unto William
                    Boareman Gent in a plea that they render unto
        him the full quantity of two thousand pounds of tobacco which to
        him they Owe & unjustly deteine &c.
          And whereupon the said Wm by Robert Carvile his Attorny Saith
        that whereas the said Pope & Charles the fourth day of March in
        the yeare of Our Lord 1673 by their certaine writeing & Obligatory
        Sealed with the Seales of them the said Charles & Pope and here in
        Court pduced whose date is the day of the date hereof abovewritten
        did acknowledge themselves to owe & Stand indebted unto him the
        said William Boarman the full & just quantity of two thousand
        pounds of sound merchantable tobacco & caske to be paid unto him
        the said William his heirs or assignes or certaine Attorny con-
        veniently in st Maries County aforesaid on demand notwithstanding
        which the said Charles & Pope the said summe of two thousand
        pounds of tobacco to him the said Wm according to the tenor of p. 201
        their certaine writeing Obligatory have not paid though often there-
        unto required but the same to pay have altogether denyed & Still doe
        deny whereupon he saith he is dampnified & hath losse to the value
        of foure thousand pounds of tobacco And thereupon he bringeth
        his suite.
          And whereupon the said Pope by John Jones his Attorny Cometh
        & defendeth the force and injury when &c & prayeth the heareing of
        the said writeing Obligatory & it is read unto him he also prayeth
        heareing of the Condition of the said writeing Obligatory and it
        is read unto him in these words following vizt The Condition of this
        Obligation is such That if the abovebounden Charles Clarke shall
        for nine months next ensueing after the date hereof come to the
        said Capt Boarman his house & there remaine for the time of One
        weeke in each month & shall teach the said Capt Wm Boarman his
        Children to dance & his eldest Son to play on the violine & shall not