10        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

             Liber N N Notley Esq Cheife justice of the Provinciall Court according to
                    the Libertyes & priveledges &c allowed of a plea that he render unto
                    him the just quantity of two thousand seaven hundred eighty eight
                    pounds of good bright a large arenoco tobacco & caske to conteine
                    the same which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth
                     And whereupon the Said Thomas Notley by Robert Ridgely his
                    Attorny Saith that whereas the said Richard Swetnam the eleventh
                    day of July in the first yeare of the Dominion of the right Honble
                    Charles &c over this Province & in the yeare of Our Lord God 1676
                    by his certaine bill Obligatory sealed with the seale of the said
                    Richard & here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare
                    aforesaid did acknowledge himself e to be holden & firmly bounden
                    unto the said Thomas in the full & just quantity of two thousand
                    Seaven hundred eighty eight pounds of good bright and large
                    arenoco tobacco & caske to conteine the same due to be paid to him
                    the said Thomas Notley his certaine Attorny executrs admrs or as
                    signes at or before the first day of October next ensueing the date
                    thereof in some convenient place secure tight house in st Maries
                    County near Wiccocomico River within half e a mile distance from
                    Some convenient waterside where boats may conveniently come
                    to take in the Same for convenient Shipping thereof To the payment
                    whereof well & truly to be made at time & place aforesaid the said
                    Richard Swetnam did bind himself e his heirs executrs & admrs firmly
                    by those prsents Notwithstanding which the said Richard Swetnam
                    the said summe of two thousand Seven hundred eighty Eight pounds
                    of tobacco according to the tenor of the said bill Obligatory although
                    often thereunto required hath not paid to the said Thomas Notley
                    but the same to pay to the said Thomas hath denyed and as yet doth
                    deny whereupon the said Thomas saith he is dampnified & hath lost
                    to the value of three thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco &
                    thereupon he pduceth his suite.
                     And the said Richard by John Jones his Attorny cometh & de
                    fendeth the force & injury when &c & saith nothing in barr of the
                    action aforesaid of him the said Thoma[s] Notley in forme aforesaid
                    brought Whereupon the said Thomas remaineth against the said
                    Richard thereof undefended Whereupon it is granted by the Court
                    here the three & twentith day of June 1677 That the said Thomas
                    Notley recover against the said Richard Sweatnam aswell the summe
                    of two thousand Seaven hundred eighty Eight pounds of tobacco
                    the debt aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred thirty Six
                    pounds of tobacco costs of suite. & the said Richard in mercy.

                    Dominick Bodkin
                                     agt
                    John ifanning