172      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N  Eleven hundred forty & seven pounds of tobacco for his costs &
                    charges by him about his defence in this behalfe laid out & expended
                    And the said Wm Hanman in mercy for his false complaint &c

                    Wm Hanman John Brooke late of Dorchister County Admr of
                       agt the Goods & Chattels of Wm Worgan deceased
                    Jno Brooke Admr was Sumoned to Answer unto Wm Hanman of a
                      Wm Worgan plea that he render unto him sixteen hundred
                                pounds of tobacco which from him he unjustly
                                detaineth &c
                      And whereupon the said Wm Hanman by Robert Carvile his At
                    torney saith, that whereas the said Wm Worgan upon the Eleventh
                    day of July Anno Doni One thousand six hundred seventy six by
                    his certaine bill or obligacon under his hand & seale & here in Court
                    produced whose date is the day & yeare abovesaid, did confesse &
                    acknowledge himself e to owe & stand indebted to the said Wm
                    Hanman the full & just Sume of sixteene hundred pounds of good
                    sound Wchantable tobacco with caske due to be paid att or before
                    the tenth day of Octobr then next in some convenient place in little
                    Choptanck River Yet the said Wm Worgan in his life tyme nor the
                    said John since his death the said sume of sixteen hundred pds of
                    tobacco to him the said Wm Hanman thoughoften thereunto re
                    quested hath not hitherto paid or satisfied, but the same to pay doth
                    deny and refuse to the damage of the said Wm Hanman two thou
                    sand foure hundred pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his
                    suite.
                      And the said John by Charles Boteler his Attorney comes & de
                    fends the force & injury when &c and saith that the said Wm Hanman
                    his action aforesaid against him ought not to have, for that the said
                    Wm Worgan in his life tyme the said sixteen hundred pounds of
                    tobacco in the bill & declaracon above specified hath fully paid & satis
                    fied according to the tenour forme & effect of the said bill, & this
                    he is ready to averr, & of this he putts himselfe upon the Countrey,
                    & the plaintiff also. Whereupon comand is given to the Sheriffe of
                    St Maryes County that he cause to come here twelve &c
                      Now here att this day to witt the two & twentieth day of ffebruary
                    in the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
                 Anoq Doni 1677 Came the parties aforesaid by their Attorneys
                    aforesaid & the Jurors impannelled being called likewise came to witt,
                    Tho:     Cosden, Tho: Doxey, Henry Phippes, Tho: Bankes, John
                    Askin, Tho: Potter, Tho: Pattison, Richard ifenwick, Philip Lynes,
                    Tho:     Keyting, Wm Thomas & Emanuel Ratcliffe who to say the
                    truth in the prmisses being elected tryed & sworne upon their Oaths
                    doe say we finde for the plaintiffe seven hundred fifty four pounds
                    of tobacco with costs of suite Therefore itt is considered that the said
                    Wm Hanman recover against the Estate of the said Wm Worgan as