Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    161

        Rawbone in the now dwelling house of the said John Watkins & att Liber N N
        his owne costs & charges to finde & provide men sufficient & materials
        for the carrying on of the said worke & other worke hereafter men-
        coned vizt to plaister white wash & colour the new roome below & to
        seale the same, And to plaister white wash scale & colour the roome
        over the said new roome And to repaire p!aister & amend all the
        defects & wants of reparacon in the plaistring of three roomes in the
        old house All which worke is to be performed by the said James
        Rawbone or his assignes between the day of the date hereof & the last
        day of October next ensueing the date hereof That then this prsent
        Ob!igacon to be void & of none effect, or else the same to stand in
        full force & vertue, which being read & heard the said Richard Hill
        by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh & defendeth the force &
        injury when &c and prayeth liberty of speaking hereunto untill next
        Court & itt is granted him, the same day is given to the said John
        Watkins
          Now here att this day to witt the one And twentieth day of ffebru
        ary in the third yeare of his Lordpps dominion &c Annoq Doni
        1677. came the said John Watkins by his Attorney aforesaid &
        offered himselfe against the said Richard Hill in the plea aforesaid,
        but the said Richard came not but made default, whereupon the said
        John by his said Attorney prayed Judgmt against the Estate of the
        said James Rawbone for five thousand pounds of tobacco And itt is
        granted unto him Therefore itt is granted by the Court here that the
        said John Watkins recover Against the Estate of the said James
        Rawbone as well the said sume of five thousand pounds of tobacco
        As also y sume of one thousand seauenty & six pounds of tobacco
        costs of suite

        Pope Alvey John Jordaine of St Clements bay in the Province
          agt of Maryland gentt otherwise called John Jordaine of
      John Jordaine    St Maryes County was Attached to Answer unto
                  Pope Alvey of a plea that he render him Eight hun
        dred foote of poplar planke which to him to oweth & unjustly
        detaineth
          And whereupon the said Pope by John Jones his Attorney saith,
        that whereas the said John by his certaine writeing Obligatory under
        his hand & Seale dated the fourth day of August One thousand six
        hundred seventy foure here ready to be produced in Court, did
        binde himselfe & his heyres to Deliver unto the said Pope or to his p. 421
        assignes the full & entire quantity of Eight hundred foote of good
        poplar plank upon the plantacon of Ann Jarboe in Brittaine bay
        sometyme between the date of the said writing & the last day of the
        said month of August as by the said writing may more plainly ap
        peare And although the said Pope hath often demanded the said
        John to deliver the said plank according to the said writeing ob!iga