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        aforesaid together with the summe of five hundred fifty Six pounds Liber N N
        of tobacco costs of suite.

     John  Quigley Ralph Blackhall late of Talbott County merchant
                  agt was Summoned to answer unto John Quigley mer-
                  Ralph Blackhall chant of a plea that he render unto him his rea-
                  sonable accompt of the time he was receiver of the
        goods & merchandizes of him the said John and which to him to
        make he ought
         And whereupon the said John Quigley by Kenelm Cheseldyn his
        Attorny complaineth that whereas the aforesaid Ralph Blackhall be-
        tweene the ninth day of April in the yeare of Our Lord One thou-
        sand six hundred Seventy foure and the fourth day of August then
        next following being receiver of the goods and merchandizes of the
        said John in Talbott County aforesaid did receive of the goods &
        merchandizes of him the said John for the accompt of the Said
        John for sales divers goods & merchandizes to wit One thousand
        thirty nine gallons of Rum One hundred & eleaven gallons of spirits
        six hundred Sixty & five gallons of molossus ten thousand Seaven
        hundred fifty & two pounds of sugar, three hundred seventy & One
        pounds of ginger, ninty & three pounds of Casteele Soape twenty &
        six bushells of salt, Eight yards of white ifustian, One yard &
        quarter of Cotton, One paire of ffrench falls One thousand of pinns,
        One black felt fifteene yards of Kersey, twelve yards of fine broad-
        cloath, One peice of white ffustian twenty dozen of brest buttons
        One grosse of Coate buttons which said goods & merchandizes did
        amount to the summe of One hundred and thirty thousand six
        hundred & eighty & two pounds of tobacco & for which the said
        Ralph was to render reasonable accompt thereof to him the said
        John when thereunto required Neverthelesse the said Ralph though
        often required hath not yet rendered his reasonable accompt afore-
        said to the said John but hitherto hath denyed & as yet doth deny his
        reasonable accompt thereof to him the said John to render where-
        upon the said John saith he is dampnified & hath lost to the value of
        One hundred & forty thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he
        bringeth his suite.
         And the said Ralph by Vincent Lowe his Attorny cometh & dc- p. 40

        fendeth the force & injury when &c the deft being then present in
        Court the plaintiff moved for speciall bayle whereupon the deft was
        committed into the custody of the Sheriff of st Maries County untill
        he putts in Special bayle Afterwards to wit the twentith day of
        November in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Came
        the Said Ralph Blackhall and Richard Tilghman and John Edmond-
        son his suerties and acknowledged in open Court that if the Said
        Ralph Blackhall be cast in this suite & doe not satisfie the condemna-
        tion thereupon or render his body to prison that they will satisfie &
        pay the same or