Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    169
       Jonathan Sibrey                             Liber N N
            agt
       James Mills Exr These foure actions are continued untill April
   Samuel Boston      Court next
       Ninian Beale
          agt
       James Moore
       Wm Gibson
         agt
       John Bell

       John Edmondson Edward Man AdmstT of all & singuler the Goods p. 427
            agt Chattels rights & Creditts of Robert Harwood
       Edward Man Admr deceased was Attached to answer unto John
       of Robert Harwood Edmondson of a plea of trespas upon the case.
                      And whereupon the said John Edmondson by
       Robert Ridgely his Attorney complaineth That whereas the said
       Robert in his life tyme to witt the fifteenth day of March one thou
       sand six hundred seventy foure in consideracon that the said John
       att the speciall instance & request of the said Robert, would give
       the said Robert creditt upon the proper accompt of the said John
       with Christopher Longbayne Mrchant for such Goods as he had
       occasion, he the said Robert did assume upon himselfe & to the said
       John did faithfully promise, that he the said Robert him the said
       John what he should so give him creditt for he would well & truely
       content & pay, And the said John in fact saith, that he did give the
       said Robert creditt with the said Christopher, And the said Robert
       of the said Christopher upon the accompt of the said John did
       receive Goods to the Value of twenty pounds foure shillings & one
       penny stert, And for the same he the said John did pay unto the said
       Christopher three thousand Eight hundred seventy nine pounds of
       tobacco Yet the aforesaid Robert in his life tyme nor the said Edward
       since his decease to whom Admcon of all & singuler the Goods &
       Chattels of the said Robert is comitted, the said sume of three thou
       sand Eight hundred seventy nine pounds of tobacco though often
       thereunto required have not paid but the same to pay have denyed &
       as yet doe deny to the damage of the said John five thousand pound
       of tobacco & thercupon he bringcth his suite

         And the said Edward Man by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh
       & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
       speaking hereunto untill the next Court, & itt is granted him, the
       same day is given to the said Jno Edmondson.
         Now here att this day to witt the one & twentieth day of ffebry
       in the third yeare of the dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
       Annoq Doni 1677. came the said John Edmondson by his Attorney
       aforesaid, & offered himselfe against the said Edward Man in the