120       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

              Liber N N Lydia Solley William Rosewell late of st Maries County otherwise
               p. 389        called Wm Rosewell of    Maries County gent was

                 Wm Rosewell Suthoned to answer unto Lydia Solley widdow in a
                             plea that he render unto her two thousand two hun
                    dred pounds of tobacco & caske wch to her he oweth & unjustly
                    deteineth.
                     And whereupon the said Lydia by Christopher Rousby her At
                    torny Saith that whereas the said Wm the tenth day of November
                    in the foure & fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq
                    Dom 1675 by his certaine writeing Obligatory sealed with the seale
                    of the said Wm here in Court produced whose date is the day and
                    yeare abovewritten did acknowledge himselfe to be holden & firmly
                    bounden unto the aforesaid Lidia Soily in the full & just quantity of
                    two thousand two hundred pounds of good sound merchantable
                    tobacco in caske, to be paid to the Said Lidia Solly or to her cer
                    tame Attorny her heirs executrs admrs or assignes upon demand
                    in some convenient place in Clements Bay or Brittons Bay in the
                    County aforesaid to which payment well truly and faithfully to be
                    made & performed he the Said Wm did bind himself e his heirs executrs
                    & admrs firmly by those presents Yet the said Wm though often
                    thereunto requested the said two thousand two hundred pounds of
                    tobacco & caske unto the said Lidia hath not paid but the same to pay
                    hitherto hath denyed & Still doth deny to the damage of the said
                    Lidia three thousand foure hundred pounds of tobacco and there
                    upon she brings her suite.
                     And the said William by John Jones his Attorny cometh & de
                    fendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle
                    hereunto untill the next Court the same day is given to both partyes.
                    Now here at this day to wit the eighth day of Octobr One thousand
                    six hundred Seventy Seven came the said Lydia by her said Attorny
                    and offered herselfe against the said Wm in the plea aforesaid but the
                    Said William came not but made default Whereupon it is granted
                    by the Court here that the said Lydia recover against the said Wm
                    Rosewell the Said Summe of two thousand two hundred pounds of
                    tobacco the debt aforesaid together with the summe of six hundred
                    fifty-five pounds of tobacco costs of suite and the said Wm in
                    mercy. &c.

                   Gerard Slye William Rosewell late of St Maries County otherwise
                     agt called Wm Rosewell of st Maries County Gent was
                 Wm Rosewell sumoned to answer unto Gerard Slye of a plea that he
                             render unto him five thousand nine hundred eighty
                   six pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth.
                     Whereupon the said Gerard Slye by Robert Carvile his Attorny
                    saith that whereas the said Wm Rosewell the fifth day of june Anno
                    Dom 1675 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the seale