Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     393

          Thomas Thropp hath often demanded the said Gervais Barty Liber N N
          Edward Man & Thomas Spaight to pay the said Summe of One
          hundred forty five pounds Sterling yet they have refused and doe
          still refuse to pay the same according to the tenor of the said write-
          ing Obligatory whereupon the said Thomas Thropp Saith he is
          dampnified two hundred pounds sterling & brings his suite.
           Whereupon the said Gervais Barty Edward Man & Thomas
          Spaight by Robert Ridgely their Attorny come & defend the force &
          injury when &c & pray the heareing of the said writeing Obligatory P. 242
          & t'is read unto them they likewise pray the heareing of the Condition
          of the said writeing Obligatory and t'is read unto them in these
          words following vizt Whereas I Gervais Barty above bounden have
          this day passed a first Second & third bill of exchange for the Summe
          of One hundred & twelve pounds Sterling payable at thirty One dayes
          Sight & beareing date with these prsents in favour of the abovenamed
          Thomas Thropp upon William Squire at the house of Wm Holgate
          merchant in London Now the Condition of this Obligation is such
          that if any of the said bills be accepted & truly paid according to the
          tenor unto the Order of the aforesaid Thomas Thropp or to his
          assignes without fraud then this Obligation to be void else to remaine
          in force & vertue which being read & heard the said Gervais Barty
          Edward Man & Thomas Spaight say nothing in barr or avoidance
          of the action aforesaid whereupon it is granted by the Court here
          this day to witt the foure & twentith day of April in the Second yeare
          of his Lopps Dominion &c Annoq Dom 1677 that the said Thomas
          Thropp recover against the said Gervais Barty. Edward Man &
          Thomas Spaight aswell the summe of One hundred forty five pounds
          Sterling the debt aforesaid as also the summe of
          pounds of tobacco costs of suite. & the defendants in mercy.

          ffrancis Gunby
                    the def by Christopher Rousby his Attorny appeares
             ag and imparles untill next Court.
          Wm Coleborne


         Edward Man Comand was given to the Sheriff of Talbott County
             agt that he take Gervais Barty if &c & him Safe Keepe
        Gervais Barty    so that he have his body here the thirtenth day of
                    ffebruary before his Lopps justices of the Provinciall
          Court to answer unto Edward Man in a plea of trespas upon the
          case which said Provinciall Court to be holden the said thirtenth
          day of ffebruary 1676 was by his Lopps Writ of adjournment ad-
          journed untill the Sevententh day of April 1677 At which said 17th
          of April the same Sheriff maketh returne of his writ aforesaid that
          the said Gervais Barty is not found in his Bayliwick, whereupon the
          said Edward Man by Robert Carvile his Attorny prayed by Lopps
          writ of Attachment against the estate of the said Gervais according