Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    187

       Therefore itt is considered by the Court here that the said plaintiffe Liber N N
       recover against the said Defendt the said sume of Eighteene hun
       dred pounds of tobacco debt, as also five hundred thirty six pounds
       of tobacco costs of suite.

       John Burridge
           ag    This action is continued untill next Court.
       Eliza Green &
      Tho: Potter

       Edward Inglish George Old feild late of Cecil County gentt other- P. 443
           agt   wise called George Old feild of the County of Cecil
    George Oldfeild   was sumoned to Answere unto Edwa Inglish of a
                  plea that he render unto him the just quantity of
       sixteen hundred sixty & one pounds of good sound Mrchantable
       tobacco & caske which to him he oweth & unjustly detaineth
         And whereupon the said Edward by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
       saith, that whereas the said George the seventh day of Septembr
       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 acknowledge
       himselfe to be holden & firmly bounden unto the said Edward in the
       just quantity of sixteen hundred sixty & one pounds of good sound
       Mrchantable tobacco & caske, to be paid to the said Edward Inglish
       or to his certaine Attorney his heyres Exrs Admrs or assignes att or
       upon the tenth of Octobr next ensuing in some convenient place in
       the said County, To which payment well & truely to be made the said
       George did binde himselfe his heyres Exrs & Admrs firmly by those
       prsents Notwithstanding which the said George the said sume of
       sixteen hundred & one pounds of tobacco to him the said Edwa
       according to the tenour of the said bill Obligatory although often
       thereto required hath not paid, but the same to pay hath denyed
       & as yet doth deny, whereupon the said Edward saith he is dampnified
       & hath losse to the Value of two thousand five hundred pounds of
       tobacco & thereupon he produceth his suite
         And the said George by John Jones his Attorney conieth & defend
       eth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of speaking here
       unto untill next Court & itt is granted him, the same day is given
       to the said Edward
         Now here att this day to witt the two & twentieth day of febry
       in the third yeare of the dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
       Annop Doni 1677 came the said plaintiffe by his Attorney afore
       said & offered himself e agt the said George in the plea aforesaid, but
       the said George came not but made default Therefore itt is con
       sidered by the Court here, that the said Edward Inglish recover
       against the said George Oldfeild as well the said sume of sixteen hun-