370        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N  by the Court that the said Thomas recover against the said Pope
                   aswell the Summe of Six hundred pounds of tobacco the debt afore-
                   said as also the summe of five hundred forty foure pounds of tobacco
                   costs of suite & the said Pope in mercy. &c.

                  Pope Alvey     Thomas Griffin admr of all and Singular
                      agt the goods Chattells rights & Creditts of
                   Thomas Griffin admr of Peter Eure late of st Maries County de
                    Peter Eureceased was suthoned to answer unto Pope
                    Alvey of a plea of trespas upon the case.
                    Whereupon the said Pope by John Jones his Attorny saith that
                   whereas the said Pope at the speciall instance & request of the said
                   Peter in his life time did on the first day of December 1675 Sell &
                   deliver unto the said Peter severall wares and merchandizes amount-
                   ing to sixteen hundred twenty three pounds of tobacco & did also at
                   the same instance & request of him the said Peter accothodate the
                   said Peter with meate drinke lodging & washing for the Space of
                   One whole yeare In consideration whereof the said Peter did not
                   only promise & assume upon himselfe to pay unto the said Pope the
                   said sixteen hundred twenty three pounds of tobacco but also sixteen
                   hundred pounds of tobacco more for his said accommodations when
                   thereunto required And notwithstanding the Said Pope did often re-
                   quire the Said Peter in his life time & Since his death the said
                   Thomas Griffin (to whom administracoñ of all and Singular the
                   goods & chattells of the Said Peter have bin cOmitted to pay the said
                   Severall summes of sixteen hundred twenty three pounds of tobacco
                   & Sixteen hundred pounds of tobacco amounting together too twenty
                   Six thousand twenty three pounds of tobacco as by an accompt here
                   ready to be produced in Court may plainly appeare Yet the said
                   Peter in his life time did refuse and the said Thomas Griffin Since
                   the death of the said Peter hath refused & Still doth refuse to pay
                   unto the said Pope the said summe of two thousand six hundred
             p. 227 twenty three pounds of tobacco whereupon the said Pope Saith he is
             dampnified foure thousand pounds of tobacco & brings his suite.
                    And the said Thomas Griffin by Robert Ridgely his Attorny
                   cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & Saith that he hath
                   judgment against him for debts of a higher nature and also other
                   debts Still not sued for then the deft abovemenconed as administra-
                   tor of the said Peter Eure and of this he putts himselfe upon the
                   judgment of the Court,
                    And the said Pope Alvey by John Jones his Attorny Saith he
                   ought not to be barred of his debt but craves judgment when assetts
                   & putts himself e upon the Court likewise. Whereupon it is consid-
                   ered by the Court the ninth day of December in the second yeare of
                   the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom 1676
                   That the said Pope Alvey recover against the said Thomas Griffin