Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    185

       plantacon att or before the tenth day of Octobr then next following Liber N N
       Yet the said Wm in his life tyme or the said John since his death
       the said sume of six thousand five hundred thirty six pounds of
       tobacco to him the said Daniel according to the tenour of the said
       bill though often thereunto requested hath not hitherto paid or satis
       fied, but the same to pay have & still doe deny to the damage of the
       said Daniel tenn thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bring
       eth his suite
         And the said John Brooke by Charles Boteler his Attorney cometh
       & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of speake
       ing hereunto untill next Court & itt is granted him, the same day
       is giuen to the said Daniel also
         Now here att this day to witt the two & twentieth day of ffebry
       in the third yeare of the dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
       Anop Doni 1677 came the said plaintiffe by his Attorney aforesaid,
       & offered himselfe agt the said John Brooke in the plea aforesaid
       but the said John came not but made default, therefore itt is con
       sidered by the Court here, that the said Daniel Clarke recover
       against the Estate of the said Wm Worgan as well the sume of six
       thousand five hundred thirty six pounds of tobacco debt As also
       the sume of five hundred eighty foure pounds of tobacco costs of
       suite

       John Ogle 1 George Oldfeild late of Cecil County gentt other
         agt wise called George Oldfeild of Cecil County in the
     George Oldfeildj Province of Maryland genti was sumoned to An
                  swer unto John Ogle of a plea that he render unto
       him the full & just sume of two thousand pounds of good sound
       Mrchantable tobacco & caske which to him he oweth & unjustly
       detaineth
         And whereupon the said John Ogle by Robert Ridgely his At
       torney saith, that whereas the said George the third day of May One
       thousand six hundred seventy six by his certaine bill Obligatory
       sealed with the seale of him the said George & here in Court pro
       duced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid did binde himselfe
       to pay or cause to be paid to the said John the full & just sume of
       two thousand pounds of good sound Mrchantable tobacco & caske
       to be paid to the said John his heyres & assignes in some convenient
       place in Cecil County upon all demands after the date thereof for
       the true paymt whereof the said George did binde himselfe his
       heyres & assignes firmly by those prsents Yet the aforesaid George
       the said sume of two thousand pounds of tobacco to him the said
       John according to the tenor of the said bill Obligatory although often
       thereunto required hath not paid, but the same to pay hath refused &
       denyed & as yet doth refuse & deny, whereupon the said John saith
       he is dampnified & hath losse to the Value of three thousand pounds
       of tobacco & thereupon he produceth his suite