1 18       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

             Liber N N  Solley in the full and just quantity of two thousand pounds of good
                    Sound leafe tobacco in caske to be paid to her the said Lidia or to
                    her certaine Attorny her heirs executrs admrs or assignes at or before
                    the tenth day of October in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand
                    six hundred seventy six conveniently in St Maries County aforesaid
                    to which payment well and truly to be made they the said Robert &
                    William did bind themselves & either of them by himselfe their &
                    either of their heirs executrs & administratrs firmly by those prsents
                    Yet the said Robert and William the said two thousand pounds of
                    tobacco in caske nor any part thereof unto the Said Lydia have not
                    paid nor either of them hath paid though often thereunto required
                    but the same to pay have denyed & each of them hath denyed & Still
                    doth deny Whereupon the said Lydia saith she is dampnified and
                    hath losse to the value of three thousand pounds of tobacco & there
                    upon she bringeth her suite.
                      And the said William Rosewell by John Jones his Attorny cometh
                p. 388 and 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 partyes
                      Now here at this Court to wit the eighth day of October in the
                    yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred Seventy Seven Came
                    the said Lidia by her Said Attorny and offered her selfe against
                    the Said Wm Rosewell in the plea aforesaid but the said William
                    came not but made default Whereupon it is considered by the Court
                    here that the said Lidia Solley recover against the Said William Rose-
                    well the summe of two thousand pounds of tobacco the debt afore
                    said together with the summe of six hundred fifty five pounds of
                    tobacco costs of suite & the Said Wm in mercy.

                    Lidia Solley Robert Toate and William Rosewell late of st Maries
                      agt County otherwise called Robert Toate and Wm
                    Robert Toate & Rosewell both of st Maries County in the Prov
                    Wm Rosewell ince of Maryland gent were sumoned to answer

                               unto Lydia Solley widdow in a plea that they render
                    unto her two thousand eighty three pounds of tobacco & caske which
                    to her they Owe & unjustly deteine.
                      And whereupon the said Lidia by Christopher Rousby her Attorny
                    saith that whereas the said Robert & Wm the nine & twentith day of
                    july One thousand six hundred seventy five by their certaine write
                    ing Obligatory sealed with the seales of them the said Robert and
                    William here in Court produced whose date is the same day & yeare
                    abovewritten did acknowledge themselves to be holden & firmly bound
                    unto the Said Lidia Solley in the full & just quantity of two thou
                    sand eighty and three pounds of good sound leafe tobacco in caske
                    to be paid to the said Lidia or to her certaine Attorny her heirs