Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     123

       amounting to the summe of five thousand five hundred & ninty three Liber N N
       pounds of tobacco a particular whereof is here in Court produced
       In consideration whereof the said John & Edmond did then & there
       assume upon themselves and to the said Mathew did faithfully prom
       ise that they the said John and Edmond when thereunto required
       the said summe of five thousand five hundred flinty three pounds of
       tobacco unto the said Mathew would well & truly content & pay
       Neverthelesse the said John and Edmond their promise & assumption
       in that behalfe not regarding but plotting & fraudulently contriveing
       him the said Mathew of the said summe of five thousand five hun
       dred flinty three pounds of tobacco to deceive the same summe of five
       thousand five hundred ninty three pounds of tobacco though often
       thereunto required unto the said Mathew have not paid nor either of
       them hath but the same to pay altogether deny Whereupon the said
       Mathew Nelson saith he is dampnified and hath losse to the value P. 39'
       of Eight thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his
       suite.
         And the said John and Edmond by John Jones their Attorny come
       & defend the force and injury when &c and pray liberty to imparle
       hereunto untill the next Court and it is granted them the same day
       is given to the said Mathew.
         Now here at this day to wit the eighth day of October Anno One
       thousand six hundred Seventy Seaven came the said Mathew Nelson
       by his said Attorny and offered himselfe against the said John Cane
       & Edmond Denis in the plea aforesaid but the said John & Edmond
       came not but made default, and the said Mathew Nelson haveing pro
       duced the said accompt here into Court and it appeareing upon Oath
       taken before the Honble the Governour that there remaineth due to the
       Said Mathew upon the ballance of the said accompt the summe of
       three thousand Seventy two pounds of tobacco Whereupon it is
       granted by the Court here That the Said Mathew Nelson recover
       against the said John Cane and Edmond Denis the said summe of
       three thousand Seventy two pounds of tobacco damages occasioned
       by the trespas aforesaid as also the summe of seven hundred & nine
       te[en?] pounds of tobacco costs of suite & the Said John & Edmond
       in mercy &c.

       Mathew Nelson George Godfrey late of Charles County was at
           agt tached to answer unto Mathew Nelson in a plea of
       George Godfry trespas upon the case
                   And whereupon the said Mathew Nelson by
       Christopher Rousby his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said
       George Godfrey the ninth day of December One thousand six hun
       dred Seventy Six in Charles County aforesaid Stood indebted unto
       him the said Mathew for divers goods and merchandize by the Said
       Mathew to the said George Sold & delivered a particular whereof is