416        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

            Liber N N  given to the Sheriff of St Maries County that he cause to come here
                   twelve &c Now here at this day to witt the seaven & twentith day of
                   April Anno 1677 Came the said Thomas Taylor & Thomas Pattison
                   by their Attornyes & the jurors of that Jury likewise came to witt
                   Edward Inglish Thomas Spink Marmaduke Semme Samuel Raspin
                   Thomas Russell Ninian Beale John Darby John Barnes Jno Waghob
                   John Hyland ffrancis Swinfen & James Rumsey who being im-
                   pannelled sumöned and Sworne to try the issue joyned between the
                   said partyes the said Thomas Taylor refused to make further prose-
                   cution in this suite whereupon a nonsuite was awarded agt him &
                   that the said Thomas Pattison recover against the said Thomas
                   Taylor the summe of         pounds of tobacco costs
                   of suite & the said Thomas Taylor in mercy for his false claime.

                   Thomas Pattison Thomas Taylor late of Dorchester County other-
                   agt wise called Thomas Taylor of the County of Dor-
                   Thomas Taylor chester in the Province of Maryland Gent was
                               Sumöned to answer unto Thomas Pattison in a
                   plea that he render unto him One hundred thousand pounds of
                   tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth
                     And whereupon the said Thomas Pattison by Kenelm Cheseldyn
                   his Attorny saith that whereas the said Thomas Tayor the third
                   day of November Anno Doth 1675 by his certaine writeing Obliga-
                   tory sealed with the seale of him the said Thomas Taylor & here in
                   Court produced whose date is the day & yeare abovewritten was
                   holden & firmly bound unto him the Said Thomas Pattison in the
                   just quantity of One hundred thousand pounds of good sound mer-
                   chantable tobacco & caske to be paid to the said Thomas Pattison or
                   to his certaine Attorny his heirs executrs & admrs notwithstanding
                   the said Thomas Taylor the said sume of One hundred thousand
                   pounds of tobacco to him the said Thomas Pattison according to the
                   tenor of his said writeing hath not paid although he hath been often
                   thereunto required but the same to pay hath altogether denyed &
                   still doth deny whereupon he saith he is dampnified & hath losse to
                   the value of two hundred thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he
                   bringeth his Suite.
                     And the said Thomas Taylor by Robert Carvile his Attorny Com-
                   eth & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth heareing
                   of the said writeing Obligatory & it is read unto him he also pray-
                   eth heareing of the Condition of the said writeing Obligatory & it
                   is read unto him in these words following The Condition of this
                   Obligation is such that if the said Thomas Taylor doe at the next
                   Provinciall Court held for the County of Dorchester bring with
                   him a faire & just accompt of all bargaines & sales publique and pri-
                   vate which ever have been between the said Taylor & the said Pattison