442        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

             Liber N N Garret Vansweringen William Hatton admr of all & Singular the
                P. 275              agt    goods chattells debts and creditts of Richard
                   Wm Hatton     Hatton deceased was attached to answer unto
                                 Garret Vansweringen of a plea of trespas upon
                                 the case.
                    And whereupon the said Garret Vansweringen by Robert Ridgely
                   his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said Garret the fourth
                   day of ffebruary 1674 being possessed of a man Servant named
                   Robert Harper Skilled in Phisick & Chirurgery & of the same arts
                   had made profession in this Province and constantly used practiced
                   & exercised the same for the cureing divers deseases Sore paynes,
                   aches &c in & upon severall the good people of this Province with
                   good Successe, the said Richard in the life time of the Said Richard
                   to wit the fourth day of ffebruary 1674 aforesaid takeing notice of
                   the Severall cures done & performed by the Said Robert in & upon
                   severall sick & lame    persons by him undertaken the said Richard
                   being then troubled     with and labouring under a certaine virulent
                   coroded Ulcer in this Legg In consideration that the Said Garret
                   would permit Suffer & Send the Said Robert to the house of the
                   said Richard in St Georges hundred in St Maries County with medi
                   cines what should be necessary & convenient for the same Ulcer &
                   Sore in his Legg, &     lett the Said Robert dresse the same as often
                   as he should thinke     fitt, the said Richard did assume upon him
                   selfe & to the Said Garret did then & there faithfully promise
                   that he the said Richard the said Garret for the labour Skill & paines
                   of the said Robert his Servant & for the medicines & remedyes by
                   the said Robert to him the Said Richard applyed he the said Richard
                   what the same should reasonably deserve when thereunto required
                   him the said Garret would well & truly content & pay And the said
                   Garret in fact saith that trusting to the faithfull promise and as-
                   sumption of the said Richard to him the said Garret so as aforesaid
                   made, he the said Garret his said Servant Robert with such medi-
                   cines as the Said Robert required did Send to the said Richard at
                   his house aforesaid & the said Robert him the Said Richard as his
                   Chirurgeon & Doctor did attend and his ulcerous legg did from time
                   to time dresse, and all Such meanes as the Said Robert thought neces-
                   sary to him the said Richard did apply give & administer from the
                   said fourth day of ffebruary in the yeare aforesaid untill the first
                   day of June then next following, for the labour & paines of the Said
                   Robert in & about the Same & also for the medicines & remedyes
                   therein & thereby expended he the said Garret doth reasonably
                   deserve two thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco Notwith-
                   standing the said Richard Hatton in his life time nor the Said
                   Wm Since his death to whom administration of all & Singular the
                   goods Chattells & Creditts of the said Richard Since his death hath
                   been cothitted the Said Summe of two thousand five hundred pounds