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        said Arthur in the plea aforesaid but the Said Arthur Came not Liber N N
        but made default Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that
        the Said Robert recover against the Said Arthur of the goods and
        chattells of the Said Thomas aswell the summe of foure hundred
        pounds of tobacco damages occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as
        also the summe of five hundred twenty eight pounds of tobacco costs
        of suite.

       Thomas Taylor John Richardson late of Talbott County planter
            agt otherwise called John Richardson of the County
      John Richardson  of Talbott in the Province of Maryland planter
                    was suthoned to answer unto Thomas Taylor of
        the County of Dorchester in the Province aforesaid planter of a
        plea that he render unto him the full and just summe of tenn thous-
        and pounds of tobacco according to act of Assembly which to him
        he oweth & unjustly deteineth &c.
          And whereupon the said Thomas Taylor by Charles Boteler his
        Attorny saith that whereas the aforesaid John Richardson upon
        the seventh day of July Anno Doth One thousand six hundred
        seventy three by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the
        seale of the said John and by the Said Thomas here in Court pro-
        duced whose date is the day and yeare aforesaid was holden and
        firmly bounden unto Thomas Taylor of the County of Dorchester
        in the Province aforesaid planter in the full and just summe of ten
        thousand pounds of tobacco according to Act of Assembly to be
        paid to the said Thomas Taylor his certaine Attorny his executors
        admrs or assignes to the which payment well & truly to be made the
        said John Richardson did bind himself e his heirs executors & admrs
        firmly by those prsents Yet the said John Richardson although often
        thereunto required the said Summe of ten thousand pounds of to-
        bacco hath not paid now rendered according to the forme force and
        effect of the same writeing Obligatory but the same to pay hath
        refused and as yet doth refuse whereupon the said Thomas Saith
        he is dampnified and hath losse to the value of fifteen thousand
        pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
          And the aforesaid John Richardson by Vincent Lowe his At-
        torny cometh & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayes
        heareing of the writeing aforesaid and it is read unto him he also
        prayes heareing of the Condition of the said writeing & it is read
        unto him in these words The Condition of this Obligation is Such
        that if the abovebounden John Richardson his heirs executors &
        admrs or any of them doe & shall well & truly acknowledge in open
        Court in the County Court of Dorchester aforesaid a parcell of
        land called the Addition lyeing in Cabbin Creeke Conteining two
        hundred acres of land unto the Said Thomas Taylor in the Said
        County Court of Dorchester holden on the first tuesday in ffebruary