196       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  also, & saith nothing in barr or avoidance of the action aforesaid
                    of him the said Henry Parker, whereupon the said Henry remaineth
                    agt the said John thereupon wholy undefended Therefore itt is
                    granted by the Court here, that the said Henry Parker recover
                    against the said John Rawlings as well the sume of foure thousand
                    nine hundred & seventy pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid As also
                    five hundred forty foure pounds of tobacco costs of suite

                    Wm Gittings  Richard ifenwick Admr of the Goods, Chat
                       agt tells & Creditts of Cuthbert ifenwick deceased
                    Richd ifenwick Admr was Attached to Answer unto Wm Gittings
                    Cuthbert ifenwick in a plea of trespasse upon the case.
                                    And whereupon the said Wm by Chris
                    topher Rousby his Attorney complaineth that whereas the said Wm
                    the three & twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sev
                    enty two aft Petuxent in Calvert County in the Province aforesaid
                    was possessed of certaine Goods Chattels & Cattle, as of his owne
                    Goods Chattels & Cattle, a particular whereof is here in Court pro
                    duced amounting to the Value of Eight thousand three hundred
                    fifty two pounds of tobacco And being thereof so possessed the
                    same Goods Chattels & Cattle afterwards to witt the said three &
                    twentieth day of March aft Petuxent aforesaid to the hands &
                    possession of the said Cuthbcrt ifenwick by findeing came Notwith
                    standing the said Cuthbert well knowing the said Goods Chattels &
                    Cattle to be the Goods Chattels & Cattle of him the said Wm Gittings
                    & to him the said Wm of right to belong and appertaine, but mean-
                p. 451 ing & intending him the said Wm in this behalf e craftily To deceive,
                    the same Goods Chattels & Cattle though often in his life tyme there-
                    unto required unto the said Wm hath not delivered nor any reason
                    able satisfaction for the same, but the same Goods Chattels & Cattle
                    afterwards to witt the tenth day of April One thousand six hundred
                    seventy three att Petuxent aforesaid to the proper use & comodity of
                    him the said Cuthbert did dispose & convert And the said Richard
                    ifenwick to whom Admcon of all & singuler the goods Chattels &
                    Creditts of him the said Cuthbert after the death of the said Cuth
                    bert was cothitted, the said Goods Chattels & Cattle of him the said
                       so by the said Cuthbert in his life detained & converted to his
                    owne use as aforesaid or reasonable satisfaction for the same unto
                    the said Wm since the death of the said Cuthbert though often there-
                    unto required hath not delivered or made, but the same to deliver
                    or make altogether refuseth whereupon the said Wm Gittings saith
                    he is the worse & hath losse to the Value of tenn thousand pounds
                    of tobacco, and thereupon he brings his suite
                     And the said Richard ifenwick by Charles Boteler his Attorney
                    cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty
                    of speaking hereunto untill next Court, the same day is given to
                    both parties.