2         Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

              Liber N N Joshua Doyne
                                     agt
                    Stephen Murty
                    Evan Carew           these Seven causes continued till
                       ag                October Court.
                    Cornelius Howard exr
                      Wm Carpenter
                    John Staynes
                      agt
                    John Allen
                    Edward Pynn
                        agt
                    Charles James
                    Dominick Bodkin & Redmond
                                 ffitz Gerald
                                     agt
                    John ifanning

                    Thomas Wynne John Rawlings late of Dorchester County other
                        agt wise called John Rollaines of Dorchester County
                  John Rawlings was suthoned to answer unto Thomas Wynne in
                                a plea that he render unto him the quantity of
                    nineteene hund.red pounds of porke which to him he oweth & un
                    justly detaineth
                     And whereupon the said Thomas by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At
                    torny Saith that whereas the said John the fourth day of May in
                    the yeare of Our Lord 1675 did by his certaine writeing Obligatory
                    Sealed with the scale of the said John here in Court produced whose
                    date is the day & yeare abovewritten acknowledge himselfe holden
                    & firmly bounden unto Thomas Wynn of st Maries County in the
                    Province of Maryland in the full & just quantity of nineteene hun
                    dred pounds of porke to be delivered in Petuxent at the Honble Gov
                    ernours Landing On or upon the tenth of November next ensueing
                    the date thereof unto the said Thomas Wynn his heirs Executrs
                    admrs or assignes To which payment well & faithfully to be made
                    & performed he did bind himself e his heirs executrs & admrs firmly
                    by those prsents notwithstanding which the said John the said summe
                    of nineteen hundred pounds of porke according to the tenor of the
                    said writeing Obligatory hath not paid though often thereunto re
                    quired but the same to pay hitherto hath & still doth deny to pay to
                    the damage of the said Thomas three thousand five hundred pounds
                    of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                     And the said John by Robert Ridgely his Attorny cometh &
                    defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty to imparle
                    hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court & it is granted unto him
                    the same day is given to the said Thomas.