82         Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

          Liber N N   of the said Richard and here in Court produced whose date is the
                  day and yeare abovesaid did bind himselfe his heirs executors admrs
                  or assignes to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Gervase Ballard
                  his heirs executrs admrs or assignes the summe of seaven thousand
                  eighty & One pounds of good sound merchantable tobacco in caske
                  in Petuxent River upon demand notwithstanding which the said
                  Richard though often demanded the said Summe of Seaven thou-
                  sand eighty & One pounds of tobacco to the said Gervase according
                  to the tenor of the said bill hath not paid but the same to pay hitherto
                  hath denyed and still doth deny and refuse to the damage of the said
                  Gervase fourteen thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he
                  bringeth his suite.
                    And the said Richard by Mathew Warde his Attorny cometh and
                  defendeth the force & injury when &c and Prayeth liberty of Speake-
                  ing hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court the same day is given
                  to both parties.
                    Now here at this day to wit the twelfth day of ffebruary in the
                  yeare One thousand six hundred seventy five came the said Gervase
                  by the Attorny aforesaid and offered himselfe against the said Rich-
                  ard in the plea aforesaid and the said Richard came likewise and the
                  said Richard saith that as to three thousand One hundred ninty six
                  pounds of tobacco the remainder of the said Summe of seaven
                  thousand eighty One pounds of tobacco he cannot gainsay for that
                  he oweth unto the said Gervase the said summe of Three thousand
                  One hundred ninty six pounds of tobacco Therefore it is granted
                  by the Court here that the said Gervase recover against the said
                  Richard Bayley aswell the summe of three thousand One hundred
                  flinty six pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of
                                 pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

                  John     Quigley James Lewis late of the County of st Maries other-
                      agt wise called James Lewis of st Maries County in the
                  James Lewis   Province of Maryland planter was Sumoned to answer
                  unto John Quigley One of the Attornys of the Pro-
                  vinciall Court according to the priviledges &c in a plea that he render
                  unto him twelve hundred seventy five pounds of tobacco which to him
                  he oweth and unjustly deteineth
                    And whereupon the said John in his proper person saith that whereas
                  the said James the third day of March in the yeare of Our Lord One
                  thousand six hundred seventy three did by his certaine writeing Oblig-
                  atory sealed with the seale of him the said James and here in Court
                  produced whose date is the same day and yeare abovewritten, bind
                  himselfe his heirs executors and admts to pay or cause to be well &
                  truly paid unto him the said John Quigley his heirs executors &
                  admrs the just & full quantity of twelve hundred seventy & five pounds
                  of good sound leafe tobacco in caske due to be paid the twelfth day
                  of this instant march it being for and in consideration of his passage