Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.
        Phillis Downman                             Liber N N
             agt
        Robt Doyne & UXr
        Admx Jno Thomas These seven actions are continued untill
        ffrancis Dorrington next Court
             agt
        Jno Sunderland Admr
        James Humes
        the same
          agt
        the same
        Garret VSweringen
           agt
        Vincent Lowe
        Morgan Jones
           agt
        Tho Jones


       Henry Parker John Rawlings late of Dorchister County otherwise p. 430
           agt called John Rawlings of Dorchister County in the
      Jno Rawlings     Province of Maryland was Sumoned to Answer unto
                  Henry Parker gentt in a plea that he render unto
        him foure thousand nine hundred & seventy pounds of tobacco &
        cask which to him he oweth & unjustly detaineth
          Whereupon the said Henry Parker by Vincent Lowe his Attorney
        complaineth, & saith, that he the said John on the fifteenth day of
        May Anoq3 One thousand six hundred seventy foure by his certaine
        writeing obligatory sealed with the seale of him the said John &
        here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare above written
        did binde himselfe his heyres Exrs & Admrs to pay unto him the said
        Henry Parker his heyres Exrs or assignes upon the tenth day of
        October next ensueing the date thereof in little Choptanck River the
        full & just sume of foure thousand nine hundred & seventy pounds
        of tobacco & cask Yet the aforesaid sume of tobacco the said John
        hath not paid to him the said Henry, but hath & yet doth refuse
        to pay the same, whereupon he the said Henry saith he is damnified
        & hath losse to the Value of six thousand pounds of tobacco, & there
        upon he brings his suite
          And the said John Rawlings by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
        cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
        speakeing hereunto untill next Court, the same day is given to both
        parties
          Now here aft this day to witt the five & twentieth day of ffebruary
        in the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
        Annoq Doni 1677. came the said Henry Parker by his Attorney
        aforesaid And the said John Rawlings in his proper person came