100       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

             Liber N N  second yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Annoq Dom 1677 Came
                    the said Mary Roe by her said Attorny but the said Thomas Walker
                    came not to prosecute his plaint aforesaid Whereupon it is granted
                    by the Court here that the said Mary Roe recover against the said
                    Thomas Walker the summe of Eight hundred fifty nine pounds of
                    tobacco for her costs & charges in this behalf e laid Out & expended
                    & the said Thomas in mercy for his false claime.

                p.  Redmond ffitz Gerald & William Wells late of Charles County other-
                    Dominick Bodkin wise called William Wells Butcher was
                        agt         Sumoned to answer unto Redmond ffitz
                    William Wells Gerald & Dominick Bodkin merchants of a
                                    plea that he render unto them fourteene
                    thousand Eight hundred pounds of tobacco which to them he oweth
                    and unjustly deteineth
                      And whereupon the said Redmond and Dominick by Christopher
                    Rousby their Attorny Say that whereas the said William the Second
                    day of December in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hun
                    dred seventy five by his certaine writeing Obligatory sealed with the
                    Seale of him the said Wm here in Court produced whose date is the
                    same day & yeare abovementioned did acknowledge himselfe holden
                    & firmly bounden unto the said Redmond ffitz Gerald & Dominick
                    Bodkin in the full and just quantity of Seven thousand & foure
                    hundred pounds of good merchantable leafe tobacco in caske to be
                    paid at demand at Some convenient place neer the Waterside in
                    Port Tobacco Creek and for the performance thereof did bind him
                    selfe his heirs executors and assignes in the penalty of fourteene
                    thousand Eight hundred pounds of tobacco And the said Redmond
                    & Dominick in fact say that the said Wm the said Seaven thousand
                    eight hundred pounds of tobacco in caske unto them the said Red
                    mond and Dominick hath not paid though often thereunto required
                    to wit the fourth day of January One thousand six hundred Seventy
                    six whereby action accrueth to the said Redmond & Dominick to
                    demand & have of him the said William fourteene thousand Eight
                    hundred pounds of tobacco Yet the said Wm the said fourteene
                    thousand eight hundred pounds of tobacco unto the Said Redmond
                    and Dominick hath not paid though often thereunto required but the
                    same to pay hath denyed & Still doth deny whereupon the said Red
                    mond & Dominick say they are the worse to the value of sixteene
                    thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon they bring their suite.
                      And the said Wm Wells by John Jones his Attorny cometh &
                    defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle
                    hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court & it is granted unto him
                    the same day is given to the said Redmond and Dominick.
                      Now here at this day to witt the Eighth day of October in the
                    Second yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq