266       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

              Liber N N  dred & forty pounds of tobacco & five hundred foote of Cypres plank
                     which to him he oweth & from him unjustly detaineth.
                      And the said Thomas Jones by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
                     cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & moveth the Court,
                     that the said Morgan Jones being a fforreigner might putt in spe
                     ciall bayle to pay to the said Thomas Jones his costs & charges if the
                     said Morgan shall be cast in the said, but the said Morgan nor his
                     Attorney giveing such bayle as aforesaid a Nonsuite is awarded agt
                     him And itt is considered by the Court here this day to witt the
                     Eleventh day of April Anno Doni 1678. that the said Thomas Jones
                     recover agt the said Morgan Jones the sume of six hundred ninety
                     foure pounds of tobacco for his costs & charges by him about his
                     defence in this behalf e laid out & expended And the said Morgan
                     in mercy.

                     Geo: Parker   Edward Inglish late of Cecil County Wchant
                        agt Admr of the Goods Chattels rights & creditts
                     Edward Inglish Adr of Roger Thorpe deceased was sumoned to
                     Roger ThorpeAnswer unto George Parker one of the Attor
                     neys of his Lordpps Provinciall Court here
                     according to the liberties & priviledges of the same Court for &c
                     of a plea that he render unto him the full & just Sume of foure
                     hundred & forty pounds of good sound Mrchantable tobacco & cask
                     which from him he unjustly detaineth.
                      And whereupon the said George Parker in his owne proper person
                     saith, that whereas the said Roger Thorpe the fifth day of May
                     Anoq Doni One thousand six hundred ceventy by hi5 certaine
                     bill or writeIng obligatory sealed with the seale of the said Roger
                     Thorpe & here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare
                     abovesaid did acknowledge himselfe to owe & to be truely indebted
                     unto Geo: Parker of the County of Calvert in the Province a fore
                     said genti, the full & just sume of foure hundred & forty pounds
                     of good sound well condiconed Mrchantable tobacco & caske to be
                     paid to the said George Parker or to his certaine Attorney his Exrs
                     Adrs or assignes att or upon the tenth day of Octobt next ensueing
                     the day of the date thereof within halfe a mile of some convenient
                     landing place in Cecil County aforesaid To which payment well &
                     truely to be made & done he the said Roger Thorpe did binde him
                     self e his heyres Exrs & Admrs firmly by those prsents Notwithstand
                     ing which the said Roger Thorpe the said sume of foure hundred &
                     forty pounds of tobacco to him the said George Parker in his life
                     tyme hath not paid according to the tenor of the said bill, nor the
                     said Edward since the death of the said Roger to whom letters of
                     Administracon of the Goods & Chattels rights & creditts of the said
                     Roger was comitted although often demanded hath not paid but
                     the same to pay altogether denyes, whereupon the said George saith