376       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Liber N N  damage of the Said Robert foure thousand pounds of tobacco. and
                  thereupon he produces his Suite.
                    And the said William Coursey by Peter Sayer his Attorny cometh
                  & defendeth the force & injury when &c and saith nothing in barr or
                  avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the said Robert whereupon
                  the said Robert remaineth against the said William thereof wholy
                  undefended Therefore it is considered by the Court here the second
                  day of December in the second yeare of the Dominion of Charles
                  Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom 1676 That the said Robert Ridgely
                  recover against the said Wm Coursey aswell the summe of two
                  thousand nine hundred & flinty pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid
                  as also the summe of pounds of tobacco costs
                  of Suite & the said William in mercy.

                  Wm Trego, Michael Pope Thomas Boudell late of Calvert County
                    & Compa planter otherwise called Thomas Boudell
                   agt              of the Province of Maryland in the
                  Thomas BoudellCounty of Calvert was summoned to
                   answer unto William Trego, Michael
                  Pope & Company of the Citty of Bristoll of a plea that he render
                  unto them the full & whole Summe of Seaven thousand Six hundred
                  & nine pounds of good sound merchantable tobacco in caske which
                  he oweth them & unjustly deteineth
                    And whereupon the said Wm Trego Michael Pope & Company by
                  George Parker their Attorny Say that whereas the said Thomas
                  Boudell the eleventh day of April in the yeare of Our Lord God
                  One thousand six hundred Seventy six by his certaine bill or write-
                  ing Obligatory Sealed with the seale of the said Thomas Boudell
                  here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare abovesaid did
                  acknowledge himselfe to owe & Stand indebted unto Wm Trego or
                  Michael Pope & Company of the Citty of Bristoll the full & whole
                  summe of seaven thousand six hundred & nine pounds of good Sound
                  merchantable tobacco in caske to be paid to the said Michael Pope
                  or Wm Trego & Compa of the Citty of Bristoll at all demands at the
                  plantation upon the Clifts which he the said Thomas Boudell then
                  dwelled On to they or either of them at all demands their heirs
                  executrs admrs or assignes, which he the said Thomas Boudell did
                  bind himselfe his heirs executrs admrs or assignes firmly by those
                  presents Notwithstanding which the said Thomas Boudell the said
                  sume of Seaven thousand six hundred & nine pounds of tobacco or
                  any part thereof to them the said Wm Trego Michael Pope & Com-
                  pany according to the said bill though often thereunto required hath
                  not paid or satisfied but the same to pay or satisfie hath hitherto
                  altogether denyed & refused & Still doth deny & refuse to pay the
                  same whereupon they the said Wm Trego Michael Pope & Company
                  say they are darnpnified and have losse to the value of ten thousand
                  pounds of tobacco & thereupon they bring their suite.