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        he is damnified & hath losse to the Value of Eight hundred pounds of Liber N N
        tobacco, & thereupon he bringeth his suite
         And the said Edward Inglish by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
        Cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to p. 512
        imparle hereunto untill next Court & itt is granted unto him, the
        same day is given to both parties
         Now here att this day to witt the tenth day of April in the third
        yeare of the Dominion of Charles Ba!temore &c Annoq Doni 1678.
        came the said George Parker in his proper person & offered him
        self e agL the said Edward Inglish in the plea aforesaid, but the said
        Edward came not but Therefore itt is considered by the Court here
        that the said Geo: Parker recover agt the Estate of the said Roger
        Thorpe the aforesaid debt of foure hundred & forty pounds of to
        bacco As also five hundred & sixty pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

       Geo:  Parker Edward Inglish late of Cecil County Mrchant Adr
           agt of the Goods Chattels rights & Creditts of Roger
        Edwa Inglish Thorpe deceased was Sumoned to Answer unto
        Admr Thorpe George Parker one of the Attorneys of his Lordps
                  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 Seven hundred & six pounds of good
        sound Wchantable 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 nine & twentieth day
        of May Annoq Doni One thousand six hundred seventy six by his
        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 himse!fe to owe & to be truely
        indebted unto George Parker of the Clifts in Ca!vert County genti
        in the full & just Sume of seven hundred & six pounds of good sound
        Mrchantable tobacco & caske to be paid to the said Geo: Parker or
        to his certaine Attorney his Exrs Admrs or assignes upon the tenth
        day of Octobr next ensueing the date above written in some con
        venient place in Caecil County abovesaid To which paymt well &
        true!y to be made & done he the said Roger Thorpe did binde himself e
        his heyres Exrs & Admrs firmly by these prsents notwithstanding
        which the said Roger Thorpe the said sume of seven hundred & six
        pounds of tobacco to him the said Geo: Parker in his life tyme hath
        not paid according to the tenour of the said bill nor the said Edward
        since his death to whom Letters of Admcon of the Goods Chatte!ls
        rights & creditts of the said Roger was comitted although often
        demanded hath not paid or satisfied, but the same to him the said
        George Parker doth still deny & refuse whereupon he saith he is
        damnified & hath losse to the Value of fourteen hundred pounds
        of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite