Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     449

                              the Sheriff of Kent County haveing Liber N N
         Michael Miller
                              returned a Cepi & the defts not ap
             ag                  .       . .

                              pearemg the Sheriff in misericordia
         George Browne & Bennit Stairs
                              untill next Court.

         John Allen day given to the plaintiff untill next Court to
            ag       demurre.
         Richard Ambrose j

         John Edmondson John Irland late of Baltemore County admr of the p. 280
         agt goods & chattells of Margarett Penry deceased was
         Jno Irland admr attached to answer unto John Edmondson of a
         Margaret Penry plea of trespas upon the case
                      And whereupon the said John Edmondson by
         Mathew Warde his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said Mar-
         garett in her life time to wit in the yeare 1674 Stood indebted unto
         him the said John Edmondson in the summe of Seaven thousand
         three hundred sixty One pounds of tobacco for divers wares and mer-
         chandizes to her the said Margarett in her life time in the year afore-
         said Sold & delivered & also the said Margarett in her life time to witt
         in the yeare 1675 Stood indebted to him the said John Edmondson in
         the sume of nine hundred thirty nine pounds of tobacco for divers
         wares & merchandizes in the yeare aforesaid Sold & delivered which
         said summes in the whole amount to the summe of eight thousand
         three hundred pounds of tobacco a particular whereof is here in
         Court produced & being So indebted the said Margarett in her life
         time did assume upon her selfe & to the said John Edmondson did
         faithfully promise that she the said Margarett the said summe of
         eight thousand three hundred pounds of tobacco to him the said
         John when thereunto required would well & faithfully content &
         pay notwithstanding the said Margarett in her life time her promise
         & assumption so as aforesaid made not regarding but subtilly and
         fraudulently intending the said John Edmondson of the said summe
         of Eight thousand three hundred pounds of tobacco craftily & Sub-
         tilly to deceive & defraud the said summe of eight thousand three
         hundred pounds of tobacco to him the said John Edmondson hath
         not paid, nor the said John Irland since the death of the Said Mar-
         garet to whom administration is granted though often thereunto
         required but the same to pay hath altogether refused to the great
         damage of him the said John Edmondson whereupon he saith he is
         dampnified & hath losse to the value of twelve thousand pounds of
         tobacco & thereupon he brings his suite.
           Now here at this day to wit the Six & twentith day of April 1677
         came the said John Edmondson by his Attorny aforesaid & by the
         Oathes of John Morley & John Moll proved the said accompt. before
         the Honble Wm Calvert Esq Whereupon it is granted by the Court