334       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Liber N N  himselfe & to the said Wm did faithfully promise that he the
                   said Thomas Mountfort upon every request of the said William and
                   at all times after would Save & Keepe harmlesse & undempnified the
                   said Wm King from all Such bonds bills promises & assumptions as
                   the said Wm King should Seale make or enter into unto the said
                   Wm Needs for the said three thousand pounds of tobacco the proper
                   debt of the said Thomas Mountfort, And the Said Wm King in fact
                   Saith that trusting to the faithfull promise & assumption of the said
                   Thomas Mountfort made as aforesaid did promise payment unto
                   the said Wm Needs of the said three thousand pounds of tobacco
                   On the behalfe of the said Thomas By reason & meanes of which
                   said promise the said Wm Needs brought his action against the said
                   Wm King for the said three thousand pounds of tobacco & at a
                   Calvert County Court holden the eightenth day of January in the
                   43th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom 1674 &
                   before his Lopps justices thereunto appointed did recover against
                   the said wm King the said three thousand pounds of tobacco as also
                   the summe of thirteen hundred & sixteen pounds of tobacco for costs
                   of suite Yet the said Thomas Mountfort his said promise & assump-
                   tion not regarding but deviseing & fraudulently intending him the
                   said Wm in that behalf e to deceive although often thereunto required
                   hath not in any wise Saved & Kept harmlesse & indempnified the
                   said Wm in the prmisses but to save & Keepe harmiesse & indempnified
                   the said Wm King hitherto hath denyed & as yet doth deny where-
                   upon the said Wm Saith he is dampnified & hath losse to the value
                   of ten thousand pounds of tobacco And thereupon he bringeth
                   his suite.
                    And the said Thomas Mountfort by Peter Sayer his Attorny com-
                   eth & defendeth the force & injury when &c & Saith nothing in barr
                   or avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the said Wm King but
                   is content that judgment passe against him by default Whereupon
                   it is granted by the Court here the fourth day of December Anno
                   1676 That the said Wm King recover against the said Thomas
                   Mountfort aswell the summe of foure thousand three hundred &
                   Sixteen pounds of tobacco damages by Occasion of the trespas afore-
                   said as also the Summe of pounds of tobacco
                   costs of Suite.

                   W Robert Ridgely
                    Sr pray deliver unto Capt John Quigley the execution or discharge
                   from it that you tooke Out for me against him I haveing received
                   full satisfaction for it, pray faile not & you will Oblige Sr.
                                           Yr ffreind & servt.
                   October the 20th 1676.         Tho: Courtney.