90         Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

           Liber N N   twenty eight foot by the Keele nine foot & a half e wide and six foot
                   deep with a good rake & runn with a weale or Bemis all round about
                   to be built of good white Oake boards without a Cabbin and clince
                   worke with mast oars boome Rudder and tiller together with a little
                   boate of ten foot by the Keele And also if the said John Quigley his
                   executors and assignes Shall & may from time to time & at all times
                   hereafter peaceably and quietly use Occuppy possesse and enjoy the
                   Shallopp and: boate aforesaid without the lett or trouble of any person
                   whatsoever then this Obligation to be void and of none effect or
                   else to remaine & be in full force & virtue which being read and
                   heard the said John Rawlings prayeth liberty to imparle here untill
                   next Court and the same day is given to both parties.
                     Att which day to wit the eleventh day of ffebruary Anno Doth
                   One thousand six hundred seventy five came the said John Rawlings
                   by his Attorny aforesaid but the Said John Quigley came not to
                   prosecute his plaint aforesaid Therefore it is granted by the Court
                   here that the Said John Rawlings recover against the said John
                   Quigley the summe of eight hundred fifty five pounds of tobacco for
                   his costs & charges in this behalf e laid Out & expended and the said
                   John Quigley in mercy for his false claime.

                  John Quigley John Rawlins late of the County of Dorchester
                      agt otherwise called John Rawlings of the County of
                 John Rawlings   Dorchester Carpenter was summoned to answer
                              unto John Quigley Gent in a plea that he render
                   unto him two thousand two hundred pounds of tobacco which to
                   him he oweth and unjustly deteineth.
                     And whereupon the Said John Quigley by Robert Carvile his
                   Attorny complaineth that whereas the said John Rawlings the
                   fiftenth day of June Anno Doth 1675 was holden and firmly bounden
                   unto him the said John Quigley in the full & just summe or quantity
                   of two thousand two hundred pounds of good sound merchantable
                   tobacco and caske to be paid to him the said John Quigley or to his
                   certaine Attorny his heirs executors admrs or assignes to the which
                   payment well & truly to be made he did bind himself e his heirs execu-
                   tors & admrs for the whole and in the whole firmly by those prsents
                   notwithstanding which the said John Rawlings the said summe of
                   two thousand two hundred pounds of tobacco to him the said John
                   Quigley according to his Said writeing Obligatory hath not paid
                   although he hath beene often thereunto required but the Same to pay
                   hath altogether denyed and still doth deny whereupon he Saith he is
                   Dampnified and hath losse to the value of foure thousand foure
                   hundred pounds of tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                     And the Said John Rawlings by Robert Ridgely his Attorny comes
                   and defends the force and injury when &c and prayeth the heareing
                   of the said writeing Obligatory and it is read unto he prayeth also