Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675. 97

        hundred seventy five at the Citty of st Maries aforesaid in Considera- Liber N N
        tion that he the said John Roberts being a Bricklayer at the Special
        instance and request of him the said John Quigley would worke as a
        Bricklayer about the Statehouse and prison at St Maries aforesaid
        for the Space or terme of One month from the fifth day of June
        aforesaid the said John Quigley did then assume upon himself e and
        to the Said John Roberts did faithfully promise that he the Said
        John Quigley when thereunto required would well and truly pay
        unto the Said John Roberts the summe of three Shillings Sterling
        p diem, for every workeing day or day that the said John Roberts
        Shall worke in and about the Statehouse and prison aforesaid And
        the said John Roberts in fact Saith that trusting to the faithfull
        promise and assumption aforesaid of him the said John Quigley did
        worke in and about the Statehouse aforesaid for the space of twenty
        foure dayes which at three Shillings p day amounts in the whole to
        three pounds twelve shillings Sterling Yet the said John Quigley
        his promise and assumption so made as aforesaid not regarding but
        deviseing & fraudulently intending him the said John of the Said
        three pounds twelve Shillings to defraud and deceive the said three
        pounds twelve Shillings hath not paid nor Satisfied though often
        thereunto required but the same to pay hath refused and as yet doth
        refuse whereupon the Said John Saith he is dampnified and hath
        losse to the value of foure thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon
        he bringeth his suite.
         And the said John Quigley by Robert Ridgely his Attorny cometh
        and defendeth the force and injury &c and prayeth liberty to imparle
        here untill the next Provinciall Court and the same day is given to
        both parties.
         Now here at this day to wit the eleventh day of ffebruary in
        the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred Seventy five came
        the said John Roberts by his Attorny aforesaid and the Said John
        Quigley by his Attorny likewise came and the Said John Quigley
        Saith that after the said fifth day of June in the said declaration
        mentioned to wit the two and twentith day of June One thousand
        Six hundred Seventy five the said John Roberts by a certaine write-
        ing of discharge duly executed did acquitt and for ever discharge
        the said John Quigley from all Summe or summes of money bar-
        gaines contracts or any manner of demands whatsoever or how-
        soever from the begining of the World to the said two and twentith
        day of June in the yeare aforesaid and this he is ready to averre
        and thereupon he demands judgment of this Court if the said John
        Roberts his action aforesaid against him Ought to have, and the
        plaintiff likewise. Which said discharge being produced by the de-
        fendant The judgment of the Court here is that the said John
        Roberts his action aforesaid against the said John Quigley Ought
        not to have Therefore it is granted by the Court here that the said