Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     407

        date is the day & yeare abovewritten acknowledge himselfe holden & Liber N N
        firmly bounden unto John Moll of the County of st Maries in this

        Province in the full quantity of foure thousand eight hundred
        pounds of good sound merchantable tobacco for a valuable consid-
        eration already received to be paid to the said John Moll or to his
        certaine Attorny his heirs executors admrs or assignes convenient in
        the County aforesaid upon all demands to the which payment well
        & truly to be made he did bind himself e his heirs executors & admrs
        firmly by those presents notwithstanding which the said Wm the
        Said Summe of foure thousand eight hundred pounds of tobacco
        according to the tenor of his Said writeing Obligatory hath not paid
        though often thereunto required but the same to pay hitherto hath
        & still doth deny to the damage of the said John Eight thousand
        pounds of tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his suite
          And the Said Wm by Mathew Warde his Attorny cometh & de-
        fendeth the force and injury &c & prayeth liberty of speakeing here-
        unto untill the next Court & it is granted him the same day is given
        to the said John.
          Now here at this day to witt the seaven & twentith day of April
        in the second yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
        Annoq Dom 1677 Came the Said John Moll by his Attorny afore-
        said & Offered himselfe against the said Wm in the plea aforesaid
        but the said Wm Came not but made default whereupon it is granted
        by the Court here that the Said John recover against the said Wm
        aswell the summe of foure thousand eight hundred pounds of tobacco
        the debt aforesaid as also the Summe of five hundred forty foure
        pounds of tobacco costs of suite and the Said Wm in mercy.

        Roger Baker
                   Ordered that this cause come to tryall next Court
            ag or else judgment by default.
        Thomas Gant.

        Zachary Mahugh
            agt
        James Ringold
                        these two actions abate the plaintiffs being
     Roger Thorpe       dead.
            ag
        Edward Inglish admr
          Jno Allen

        wm Coleborne John Waghob late of st Maries County Planter was
            agt attached to answer unto Wm Coleborne of a plea of
        John Waghop trespas upon the case.
                    And whereupon the said William Coleborne by
        Robert Ridgely his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said Wm
        the first day of March 1673 at the Speciall instance & request of
        the said John Sold & delivered to the said John One hundred & ninty