134       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

             Liber N N  of him the said John & here in Court produced whose date is the
                    day & yeare aforesaid did acknowledge himself e indebted unto Wil
                    liam Hill of Petuxent River in the County of Calvert the true & just
                    summe of Seventeene hundred & fifty pounds of good sound mer
                    chantable tobacco in caske to be paid unto the Said Wm Hill his heirs
                    executrs or assignes at some convenient place in Petuxent River at
                    or upon the tenth day of October next after the date of the said bill
                    To which payment well & truly to be made the said John Rawlings
                    did bind himselfe his heirs executrs or assignes firmly by those pres
                    ents notwithstanding which the said John though often thereunto
                    required the said summe of Seventeene hundred & fifty pounds of
                    tobacco hath not paid according to the tenor of his Said bill but
                    the same to pay refuseth & as yet doth refuse whereupon the said
                    Wm Saith he is dampnified & hath losse to the value of three thou
                    sand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                     And the said John by Robert Ridgely his Attorny cometh & de
                    fendeth the force and injury when &c & prayeth liberty to imparle
                    hereunto untill October Court the same day is given to both partyes
                     At which October Court to wit the eighth day of October in the
                    yeare One thousand six hundred Seventy Seaven came the Said
                    Wm by his said Attorny & offered himselfe against the said John in
                    the plea aforesaid but the said John came not but made default
                    Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the said William
                    Hill recover against the said John Rawlings the summe of Seaven
                    teene hundred & fifty pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid together
                    with five hundred Seventy nine pounds of tobacco costs of Suite &
                    the said John in mercy.

                     Upon the Petition of William Ball That Thomas Humphrys gives
                    three hundred acres of Land called East Humphrys to Mary his
                    wife constituteing her his heire by Testament in writeing Anno One
                    thousand six hundred and Sixty, Mary beares a Child posthuma to
                    Humphrys & by deed in her Widowhood Anno One thousand Six
                    hundred sixty One gives the three hundred acres of Land to Mary
                    her daughter reversion to her selfe, if the daughter dye before age
                    or without heire & marries & beares Hannah to Ball, Mary the sister
                    to Hanna dyes Quere whether Hanna is heire to Mary her sister It
                    is the judgment of the Court here the eighth of October One thou
                    sand six hundred Seventy Seaven that Hanna is heire to Mary her
                    sister and thereupon Order Patent of Confirmation accordingly.

                    Stephen Murty admr Comãnd was given to the Sheriff of Talbott
                     John Balley County That whereas John Balley the twelfth
                      agt         of December One thousand six hundred sev
                    Richard Baylyenty foure recovered judgment against the
                    said Richard Bayly for five thousand six hun
                    dred & thirty pounds of tobacco a certaine debt & One thousand