Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.     203

         And the aforesaid John Allen by Robert Ridgely his Attorney by Liber N N
        favour of the Court hereunto admitted doth come & defend the
        force &c and prayeth hearing of the writing aforesaid & itt is read
        unto him, he prayeth also heareing of the Condicon of the said
        writing & itt is read unto him in these words The CondicOn of this
        Obligacon is such, that if the above bounden John Allen his Exrs
        Admrs or assignes doe & shall well & truely performe fullfill & keep
        all & singuler the Covenants Grants Articles clauses & Agreements
        menconed written & comprized in a certaine Conveyance or Deed
        poll under the hand & seale of the said John Allen beareing date
        even with these prsents, made by him the said John Allen unto the
        above named Caecilius &c according to the tenour effect & true
        meaning of the said Conveyance that then this obligacOn to be void
        & of none effect, or else to stand & abide in full force & vertue. Which
        being read & heard, the said John Allen saith nothing in barr or
        avoidance of the Informacon aforesaid, whereby the said Lord Propry
        remaineth agt the said John Allen wholy undefended.
         Whereupon itt is granted by the Court here this day to witt the
        three & twentieth day of ffebry in the third yeare of his Lordps
        Dominion &c Annoq3 Doni 1677 that the said Lord Prop” recover
        agt the said John Allen as well the sume of forty thousands pounds
        of tobacco debt As also pds of tob costs of suite
        Matthew Nelson &    Edmond Beauchamp late of the County of
        CompaSomrsett otherwise called Edmond Beauchamp
            agt       of Annamessex in the County of Somersett in
        Edmond Beauchamp the Province of Maryland Clerke was Sum
                      oned to Answer unto Matthew Nelson & Compa
        Mrchants of Bristoll in a plea that he render unto them one thousand
        five hundred sixty seven pounds of tobacco & caske which to them
        he oweth and unjustly detaineth
         And whereupon the said Matthew Nelson & Compa by Christopher
        Rousby their Attorney say, that whereas the said Edmond the
        twentieth day of Octobr in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six
        hundred seventy six by his certaine writing Obligatory sealed with
        the Seale of him the said Edmond here in Court produced whose
        date is the same day and yeare above written, did binde himselfe his
        heyres Exrs & Admrs to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Matthew
        Nelson & Compa Mrchants of Bristoll their heyres Exrs Admrs or
        assignes the full quantity of One thousand five hundred sixty seven
        pounds of good sound Mrchantable tobacco & caske to be paid upon
        all demands in some convenient place in Somersett County in Mary
        land Yet the said Edmond Beauchamp the said sume of one thousand
        five hundred sixty seven pounds of tobacco & caske though often
        thereunto required unto the said Matthew Nelson & Compa Mrchants
        or any of them hath not paid, but the same to pay hath denyed &
        still doth deny, to the damage of the said Matthew Nelson & Compa