Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.   263

       thereunto required but the same unto the said Wm to pay & satisfie Liber N N
       have hitherto denyed & the said Henry Stocket & James Stavely still
       doe deny, whereupon the said Wm White saith he is damnified & hath
       losse to the Value of ten thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he
       brings his suite.
         And the said Henry Stocket & James Stavely by George Parker
       their Attorney come & defend the force & injury when &c and pray
       liberty of speakeing hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is
       granted unto them the same day is given to both parties.
         Now here att this day to witt the thirteenth day of April in the
       third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annocp
       Doni 1678. came the said Wm White by his Attorney aforesaid &
       offered himselfe agt the said Henry & James in the plea aforesaid,
       but the said Henry & James came not but made default Whereupon
       itt is granted by the Court here, that the said Wm White recover agt
       the said Henry & James Admrs of the said Tho: Salmon the sume of
       Eight thousand five hundred seventy foure pounds of tobacco dam
       ages occasioned by the trespas aforesaid As also six hundred fifty
       five pounds of tobacco costs of suite

      Mathias De Ring Henry Johnson & Elizabeth his wife Exx of the
           agt last Will and testamt of Nathaniel Vtie deceased
      Henry Johnson was Sumoned to answer to Matthias De Ring
       & ux Adx Vtie  in a plea that they render unto him the sume of
       thirteen thousand pounds of tobacco which from
      him they unjustly detaine.
         And whereas the said Mathias by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
       saith, that whereas the said Nathaniel in his life tyme to witt the
       tenth day of June in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hun- p. 509
       drcd Seventy two did by his ccrtaine writeing obligatory sealed with
       the Seale of him the said Nathaniel here in Court produced whose
       date is the same day & yeare above written, binde himself his heyres
       Exrs or assignes to pay to the said Mathias DeRing his heyres or
       assignes the full & just sume of thirteen thousand pounds of tobacco
       & cask att two payments to witt in the yeare One thousand six hun
       dred seventy two six thousand five hundred & in the yeare One thou
       sand six hundred seventy three six thousand five hundred And itt
       was for a parcell of land the said Vtie stood bound to make good
       to Hance De Ring whose heyre att Law the said Mathias De Ring
       now is, & for which land the said Mathias doth receive the above
       menconed tobacco & forever quit clayme to the said land as by a
       Deed under his hand appeares, & for true performance of paymt of
       the said debt, the said Vtie did thereto sett his hand & Seale Not
       withstanding which the said Nathaniel Vtie the said sume of thir
       teene thousand pounds of tobacco in his life tyme according to the
       tenor of his said writeing obligatory hath not paid to the said