42        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

           Liber N N  for the paymt thereof he the said Mathew did charge a noate upon
                   him the Said Wm Hill being debtor in the like quantity of tobacco
                   to him the said Mathew at the same time who did accept the same
                   noate and in consideration thereof did assume upon himselfe and
                   to the said Stephen and faithfully promise that he the Said Wm the
                   aforesaid Summe of One thousand & nine hundred pounds of tobacco
                   unto him the Said Stephen when thereunto required would well &
                   faithfully content and pay notwithstanding which the Said Wm his
                   promise and assumption So as aforesaid made little regarding but
                   deviseing and fraudulently intending him the aforesaid Stephen of
                   the aforesaid Summe of One thousand nine hundred pounds of to-
                   bacco craftily and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the aforesaid
                   Summe of One thousand nine hundred pounds of tobacco to him the
                   Said Stephen though often thereunto required hath not paid but the
                   Same to pay hath altogether denyed and Still doth deny to the great
                   damage of him the said Stephen whereupon he Saith he is dampnified
                   and hath losse to the value of three thousand pounds of tobacco &
                   thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                    And the Said William Hill by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh
                   & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
               p.27   Speakeing hereunto until next Provinciall Court the Same day is
                   given to both parties
                    Now here at this day to wit the Six and twentith day of November
                   in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom One
                   thousand six hundred Seventy five Came the Said Stephen by his
                   Attorny aforesaid and offered himselfe against the Said Wm in the
                   plea aforesaid but the Said William Came not but made default
                   therefore it is considered by the Court here that the Said Stephen
                   Murty recover against the said William Hill the summe of nineteene
                   hundred pounds of tobacco damages occasioned by the trespas afore-
                   said as also the Summe of five hundred twenty eight pounds of
                   tobacco cost of Suite.

                   Sr Wm Davidson Memorandum that this day to wit the sevententh
                   agt day of November in the 44th yeare of the Domin-
                   Henry Phippes J ion of Caecilius &c Came the said Henry Phippes
                              in Open Court and rendered himself e into the cus-
                   tody of the Sheriff of St Maries County whereupon his Attorny
                   prayed that the plaintiff being a fforreiner might putt in Special
                   bayle to pay treble damages to the deft in case the plaintiff be cast
                   in this suite whereupon time was granted to the plaintiff until the
                   morrow and the deft in the interim discharged Out of prison. At
                   which said morrow to wit the eightenth day of the Same November
                   Came the said deft Henry & againe rendered himselfe into Custody
                   of the said Sheriff Afterwards to wit the ninetenth day of the same
                   November Came the Said sr William Davidson by his Attorny &