262       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N   severally indebted unto him the said Wm White for Smiths worke
                     in divers sumes of tobacco a particular whereof is here in Court
                     produced amounting to eight thousand five hundred & seventy foure
                     pounds of tobacco And whereas he the said Thomas Salmon dureing
                     the tyme aforesaid being an Ordinary keeper within the said County
                     of Cecil & haveing by reason of the same profession or imploymt
                     severall debts & small sumes of tobacco due & oweing to himself
                     within the Countyes aforesaid from divers & sundry persons In
                     habitant thereof, which debts & sumes of tobacco by reason they did
                     not severally amount to the quantitys of compleat hogsheads of
                     tobacco were the more hard & difficult for the said Tho: to collect &
                     gett in, did inconsideracon that he the said Wm White would author
                     ize & permitt him the said Tho: Salmon to collect & receive the said
                     severall debts & sumes of tobacco due from the said severall persons
                     unto him the said Wm White amounting together to the said sume
                     of eight thousand five hundred seventy foure pounds of tobacco,
                     whereby he the said Thomas with such persons as owed him parcells
                     of tobacco might the more easily make up entire hogsheads of
                     tobacco, & thereby gett in what tobacco was due to himself e as afore
                     said did assume upon himselfe & to the said Wm did faithfully prom
                     ise that he the said Tho: Salmon the said sume of Eight thousand
                     five hundred seventy foure pounds of tobacco unto the said Wm White
                     when thereunto required well & truely would pay content & satisfie
                     And the said Wm White in fact saith, that he the said Wm trusting
                     to the faithfull promise & assumpcon aforesaid of him the said Tho:
                     Salmon afterwards to witt the said twenty sixth day of March one
                 p. 508 thousand six hundred & seventy & att severall dayes & tymes & from
                     tyme to tyme until the said twenty fourth day of March One thou
                     sand six hundred seventy three did authorize & permit the said
                     Thomas Salmon to collect & receive the said debts & sumes of tobacco
                     due from the said severall persons within the Countyes & Province
                     aforesaid unto him the said Wm White as atoresaid And the said
                     Wm further saith, that the said Thomas Salmon accordingly within
                     the tyme afore menconced did receive the same severall sumes of
                     tobacco from the respective persons indebted to the said Wm as
                     aforesaid amounting to the sume of Eight thousand five hundred
                     seventy foure pounds of tobacco, & the same tobacco did convert to
                     his the said Tho: Salmons owne use Yet notwithstanding the said
                     Tho: his promise & assumpcon aforesaid in that behalfe little re
                     guarding, but plotting & fraudulently contriveing him the said Wm
                     of the said Eight thousand five hundred seventy foure pounds of
                     tobacco wholy to deceive & defraud the same in his life tyme & the
                     said Henry Stocket & James Stavely since his death to whom Admcon
                     of all the goods Chattels & creditts which were of the said Thomas
                     Salmon was comitted unto the said Wm White have not paid nor
                     satisfied, nor any or either of them hath paid & satisfied though often