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         denyed & as yet doth deny whereupon he Saith he is dampnified & Liber N N
         hath lost to the value of foure thousand pounds of tobacco And there-
         upon he bringeth his suite.
           And the said Marmaduke by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny corn-
         eth & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to
         imparle hereunto untill the next Court & it is granted him the same
         day is given to the said Thomas.
           At which Court to wit the ninth day of December in the second
         yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom
         1676 Came the said Wm Thomas by his Attorny aforesaid but the
         said Marmaduke Came not but made default & the said Wm Thomas
         did acknowledge himselfe fully satisfied & paid the summe of four-
         teen hundred & fifty pounds of tobacco part of the abovesaid summe
         of three thousand pounds of tobacco in the declaration abovesaid
         mentioned. Whereupon it is Considered by the Court here That the
         said William Thomas recover against the said Marmaduke Semme
         the summe of fifteene hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco the
         remainder of the debt aforesaid together with the summe of five
         hundred forty foure pounds of tobacco costs of suite & the Said
         Marmaduke in mercy.

         John Baker
                     Unlesse the defendant appeare next Court the
            ag       Sheriff of Kent County will be amerced.
         Vincent Atcheson


         Robert Ridgely William Coursey late of Talbott County Gent was p. 230
            agt summoned to answer unto Robert Ridgely One of
       Wm Coursey   the Attornyes of the Provinciall Court of a plea
                    that he render unto him the full and just quantity
         of two thousand nine hundred & ninty pounds of tobacco in caske
         wch to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth
           And whereupon the said Robert Ridgely in his proper person
         Saith that whereas the said Wm the sixtenth day of November 1675
         by his certaine bill Obligatory sealed with the Seale of him the said
         William & here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare
         aforesaid did acknowledge himself e to be holden & firmly bound unto
         the said Robert in the full & just Summe or quantity of two thousand
         nine hundred & ninty pounds of tobacco to be paid to the said Robert
         Ridgely or to his certaine Attorny his heirs executrs admrs or assignes
         at Some convenient place in Talbot County upon demand To which
         payment well & truly to be made the said Wm did bind himselfe his
         heirs executrs & admrs firmly by those prsents Yet the said Wm the
         said summe of two thousand nine hundred & ninty pounds of tobacco
         to him the said Robert according to the tenor of the said bill though
         often thereunto required hath not paid but the same to pay hath re-
         fused & denyed & as yet to pay the same doth refuse & deny to the