202       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

                          Liber N N Peter Bond & UXr
                                     agt
                    James Rigbey Exr
                                   Wm Drury
                Tho: jones          These five actions are continued untill next
                       ag           April Court
                    David Browne
                    Hannah Hawkins Exx
                    Tho:     Hawkins
                        agt
                    Garret VSweringen
                    Joshua Doyne
                                     agt
                    Tho: Clipsham Admr
                    Cha: Gregory

               p. 456 Proprietary Memorandum that att a Provinciall Court held att
                       agt St Maryes the second day of Octobr in the second yeare
                  John Allen of the Dominion of the right Honble Charles &c and
                            in ye yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred sev
                    enty seven here prsent in Court, Kenelm Cheseldyn Attorney Gen”
                    of the said Lord Propry in his owne proper person who for the said
                    Lord Propry in this behalf e followeth, & exhibitteth to the Court here
                    his certaine Informacon agt John Allen of Charles County gentt
                    thereby giveing the Court here to understand & be in formed
                     That whereas the said John Allen the tenth day of Novembr in
                    the three & fortieth yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c and in the
                    yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy foure, did
                    by his certaine writing Obligatory sealed with the seale of the said
                    John here in Court produced whose date is the same day & yeare
                    above written, did acknowledge himselfe holden & firmly bound unto
                    the right Honble Caecilius absolute Lord and Propry of Maryland
                    aforesaid &c his heyres & Successors in the full & just Sume of forty
                    thousand pounds of good sound Mtchantable leafe tobacco & caske
                    to be paid to the said Lord Propry his heyres Successors or assignes
                    to the which paymt well & truely to be made he did binde himself e his
                    heyres Exrs & Admrs firmly by those prsents Notwithstanding which
                    the said John Allen the said sume of forty thousand pounds of to
                    bacco to the said right Honble Caecilius &c in his life tyme, nor to
                    the said right Honble Charles absolute Lord & Propry of this Province
                    his heyre & Successor since his death according to the tenor of the
                    said Obligation, but the same to pay hitherto hath & still doth deny
                    to pay to the damage of the said Lord Propry fifty thousand pounds
                    of tobacco. Whereupon the said Kenelm Attorney as aforesaid for
                    the said Lord Propry prayeth advice of the Court in the prmisses
                    And that the said John Allen may come here in Court & Answer the
                    said Lord Prop” upon the same