76        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

            Liber N N libertyes and priviledges &c of a plea that she render unto him the
                   full & just Summe of two thousand foure hundred pounds of good
                   Sound merchantable tobacco and caske which from him She un-
                   justly deteineth.
                    And whereupon the said Robert in his proper person Saith that
                   whereas the said John in his life time to wit the fiftenth day of
                   april One thousand Six hundred Seventy foure by his certaine write-
                   ing Obligatory Sealed with the seale of him the said John and
                   herein Court produced whose date is the day and yeare aforesaid did
                   acknowledge himself e to be holden and firmly indebted unto the said
                   Robert in the full and just Summe of two thousand foure hundred
                   pounds of good Sound merchantable tobacco and caske to be paid
                   to the Said Robert Ridgely or to his certaine Attorny his heirs execu-
                   tors admrs or assignes upon demand at some convenient place in the
                   said County of Kent To the which payment well & truly to be made
                   the said John Wright did bind himself e his heirs executors & admrs
                   firmly by those presents after which said fiftenth day of April the
                   said John Wright died and the said Mary Wright in and upon the
                   goods chattells & Creditts of the said John did enter and the same did
                   administer & dispose as Executrix of the last will and Testament
                   of the said John Yet the aforesaid John in his life time nor the said
                   Mary Executrix of the last will & Testament of the said John since
                   his death the said two thousand foure hundred pounds of tobacco
                   to him the said Robert according to the tenor of the said writeing
                   Obligatory though often demanded have not paid but the same to
                   pay have denyed & Still doe deny whereupon the said Robert Saith
                   he is dampnified & hath lost to the value of three thousand pounds
                   of tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                    And the said Mary by Robert Carvile her 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 tenth day of ffebruary in the
                   yeare One thousand Six hundred Seventy five came the said Robert
                   Ridgely in his proper person cometh & offereth himselfe against the
                   said Mary in the plea aforesaid but the said Mary came not but
                   made default Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the
                   said Robert Ridgely recover against the Said Mary as aforesaid
                   aswell the summe of two thousand foure hundred pounds of tobacco
                   the debt aforesaid as also the Summe of five hundred Sixty foure
                   pounds of tobacco costs of Suite.
                   John Blackfan       .    .  .
                             this cause continued untill next Court the Sheriff of
                     ag      Charles County not being prsent.
                   Thomas Maries