112        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

             Liber N N  by his Attorny also came and the said Jonathan saith nothing in barr
                    or avoidance of the action aforesd of them the said John Pawson
                    and Compa against him brought Whereupon the said John Pawson
                    and Compa remaine against the said Jonathan as to the said summe
                    of three thousand three hundred flinty eight pounds of tobacco
                    wholly undefended Therefore it is granted by the Court here that
                    the Said John Pawson and Compa recover against the said Jonathan
                    Sibrey aswell the summe of three thousand three hundred flinty
                    eight pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of six
                    hundred eighty Seaven pounds of tobacco costs of suite and the said
                    Jonathan in mercy &c.

                    James Rigbey the defendant not appeareing this October Court the
                      agt Sheriff of Talbott County amerced 40s & the cause
                    Wm Bery continued till next Court.

               p. 384 Mary Clements John Cocke of Cecil County otherwise called John
                      agt Cock of the County of Caecilius in the said Prov
                    John Cockeince Planter was sumoned to answer unto Mary
                    Clements of a plea that he render unto her Seven
                    teene hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco which to her he oweth
                    and unjustly deteineth.
                      And whereupon the said Mary by Robert Carvile her Attorny
                    saith that whereas the said John upon the eleventh day of september
                    One thousand six hundred seventy six by his certaine bill or write
                    ing Obligatory sealed with the seale of him the said John & here in
                    Court produced whose date is the day & yeare abovesaid did con
                    fesse and acknowledge himselfe to owe and stand justly indebted
                    to the said Mary Clements in the full and entire quantity of seven
                    teene hundred & twenty pounds of good sound merchantable tobacco
                    & caske to be paid to the said Mary convenient in Sassafnax River at
                    or by the tenth day of October then next Yet the said John the said
                    summe of seventeene hundred & twenty pounds of tobacco to her the
                    said Mary though often thereunto requested hath not paid but
                    the same to pay hath hitherto & Still doth deny & refuse to the
                    damages of the said Mary three thousand pounds of tobacco & there
                    upon she bringeth her suite.
                      And the said John Cocke by Robert Ridgely his Attorny cometh
                    & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty to
                    imparle hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court the same day is
                    given to both panties.
                      Now here at this day to wit the fifth day of October Anno Dom
                    One thousand six hundred seventy seven Came the said Mary by her
                    said Attorny but the said John Came not but made default Where
                    upon it is granted by the Court here That the said Mary Clements
                    recover against the said John Cocke aswell the summe of seventeene