66        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

            Liber N N  John here in Court produced whose date is the Same day and yeare
                   abovewritten for and in consideration of the quantity of five thous-
                   and pounds of tobacco the which said quantity the said John did
                   acknowledge to be fully Satisfied contented and paid did bind him-
                   selfe his heirs executrs and admrs to pay or cause to be paid unto
                   him the said Zachariah Wade his heirs executors admrs or assignes
                   two men Servants & a woman Servant each of them betweene the
                   age of Sixteen yeares and foure and twenty to be Sound & in good
                   health to be paid at or before the fiftenth day of January next ensue-
                   ing the date thereof notwithstanding which the Said John the said
                   two men Servants and the woman Servant as aforesaid according
                   to the tenor of his said bill to him the said Zachariah hitherto hath
                   not rendered though often thereunto required but the Same to
                   render doth altogether deny to the damage of him the said Zacha-
                   riah Seven thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he bringeth
                   his suite.
                    And the said John by Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh and
                   defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
                   Speakeing hereunto untill next Provinciall Court the same day is
                   given to both parties
                    Now here at this day to wit the ninth day of ffebruary in the
                   yeare One thousand Six hundred Seventy five Came aswell the said
                   Zachariah by his Attorny aforesaid and the Said John by his Attorny
                   came likewise and the said John Saith that the writeing Obligatory
                   abovementioned is not his Act & deed and of this he prayeth the
                   judgment of the Court & the plaintiff likewise. Whereupon the
                   plaintiff haveing acknowledged the receipt of the two men Servants
                   in the declaration Specified It is granted by the Court here that the
                   Said Zachariah Wade recover against the said John England the
                   Summe of two thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco damages
                   for the want of the woman Servant in the declaration mentioned
                   together also with the summe of six hundred thirty eight pounds of
                   tobacco for his costs and charges in this behalfe laid Out and ex-
                   pended and the Said John in mercy.

                   Henry Allenson the Sheriff of Ann Arundell County amerced the
                      ag    .    not appeareing last Court & continued.
                   Robert ffrancklin

              p. 42 Jonathan Squire admr Thomas Norris late of Talbott County
                        Jno Morecroft planter was Suthoned to answer unto Jona-
                        agt than Squire administrator of the goods and
                   Thomas Norrischattells of John Morecroft deceased in a
                   plea that he render unto him the Summe of
                   foure hundred pounds of tobacco which from him he (oweth and)
                   unjustly deteineth.