Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     427

         of the Said Robert that is to say betweene the first day of April in the Liber N N
         yeare aforesaid & the last day of October then next following divers
         accomodations & goods & paid & disbursed tobacco to & for & by
         the Order of the Said Robert amounting in the whole to the Summe
         of six thousand five hundred forty & five pounds of tobacco a par-
         ticular whereof is by the Said Wm here in Court produced, the Said
         Robert did assume upon himselfe & to the Said Wm did faithfully
         promise that he the said Robt the same summe of six thousand five
         hundred forty five pounds of tobacco when thereunto required would
         well & truly content & pay Yet the aforesaid Robert in his life time
         nor the Said Johanna Since his death to whom the execution of the
         testament of the Said Robert since his death hath bin committed the
         said Summe of six thousand five hundred forty five pounds of
         tobacco to him the Said Wm though often thereunto required hath
         not paid but the sauic to pay hath refused & denyed & the Same to
         pay as yet doth deny and refuse to the damage of the Said Wm eight
         thousand pds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
          And the said Johanna by Kenelm Cheseldyn her Attorny corn-
         eth & defendeth the force & injury when &c & Saith that the said
         Robert in his life did not assume upon himself e in manner & forme
         as the said Wm hath declared & of this she putts her self e upon the
         Country & the plaintiff also, whereupon it is comanded the Sheriff
         that he cause to come here twelve &c Now here at this day to witt
         the eight & twentith day of April Anno 1677 Came the partyes
         aforesaid by their Attornyes & the jurors of that jury also came to
         wit Thomas Pattison Thomas Potter Thomas Keyting Jno Brookes
         Jno Garnish Joseph Hackney Lewis Blangy Constant Daniell, Elias
         Beech Jno Stephens, Thomas Kemp & Thomas Bowdell who being
         impannelled Sumöned & Sworne to Say the truth in the premisses
         (and the said Wm Cannaday haveing Sworne to the said accompt)
         upon their Oathes doe say Wee of the jury doe find for the plaintiff
         Six thousand five hundred forty-five pounds of tobacco with costs
         Therefore it is granted by the Court that the said Wm Cannaday
         recover against the estate of the Said Robert ffarrer aswell the said
         Summe of six thousand five hundred forty five pounds of tobacco
         occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as also the summe of One thou-
         sand & foure pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

        Stephen Gary Daniel Clarke late of Dorchester County was at-
            agt tached to answer unto Stephen Gary of a plea of
        Daniel Clarke trespas assault battery & false imprisonment
                    And whereupon the Said Stephen Gary by Robert
         Carvile his Attorny complaineth that the said Daniel upon the twen-
         tith day of December in the yeare of Our Lord 1675 being then
         High Sheriff of the said County of Dorchester by force & armes at
         the house of him the Said Stephen at Little Choptanck River in the