Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     121

       of him the Said William & here in Court produced whose date is the Liber N N
       same day and yeare abovewritten did acknowledge himselfe holden &
       firmly bounden unto the Said Gerard Slye of the same County
       merchant in the just quantity of foure thousand two hundred eighty
       six pounds of good sound merchantable tobacco in caske to be paid
       unto him the said Gerard his heirs executors admrs & assignes after
       the first day of October next ensueing at some convenient place in or
       neere st Clements Bay in the County aforesaid for which payment
       well & truly to be made he did bind himselfe his executrs & admrs
       firmly by those prsents And whereas also the Said Wm Rosewell the
       fifth day of June Anno Dom 1675 by his certaine writeing Obliga
       tory Sealed with the seale of him the said William & here in Court
       produced whose date is the same day and yeare abovewritten did
       acknowledge himselfe holden & firmly bound unto Gerard Slye of
       the same County merchant in the just quantity of Seventeene hun
       dred pounds of good Sound merchantable tobacco in caske to be
       paid to him the said Gerard Slye his heirs executrs & admrs & assignes
       upon demand after the first day of October in the yeare of Our
       Lord One thousand six hundred seventy six at his then dwelling
       plantation in st Clements Bay for which payment well & truly to be
       made he did bind himselfe his executrs & admrs firmly by those
       pTsents notwithstanding which the said William Rosewell the said
       summe of five thousand nine hundred eighty six pounds of tobacco
       to him the said Gerard Slye though often thereunto required hath
       not paid but the same to pay hitherto hath and Still doth altogether
       deny to the damage of him the said Gerard seven thousand pounds
       of tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his suite.
         And the said William by John Jones his Attorny cometh & defend
       eth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle here
       unto untill the next Court, the same day is given to both partyes. P. 390
       Now here at this day to wit the eighth day of October Anno Dom
       One thousand six hundred seventy seven Came the said Gerard Slye
       by his said Attorny and proffered himselfe against the said William
       Rosewell in the plea aforesaid but the said William came not but
       made default Whereupon it is granted by the Court here That the
       said Gerard Slye recover against the said wm Rosewell aswell the
       said summe of five thousand nine hundred eighty six pounds of
       tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred &
       sixty pounds of tobacco costs of suite & the said Wm in mercy. &c.

       Mathew Nelson John Allen late of Charles County Gent was at
         agt tached to Mathew Nelson mercht in a plea of trespas
       John Allen upon the case.
                   And whereupon the said Mathew by Christopher
       Rousby his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said John Allen
       the ninth day of December One thousand six hundred Seventy Six