270      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N  he render unto him the full sume of twenty thousand pounds of
                    good sound Mrchantable tobacco in caske which from him he un
                    justly detaineth
                      And whereupon the said John Baker by Robert Ridgely his Attor
                    ney saith that whereas the said Vincent Atchinson in his life tyme to
                    witt the twenty fourth day of Novembr Annoq3 Doni One thousand
                    six hundred seventy & five by his certaine writeing obligatory sealed
                    with the seale of him the said Vincent & here in Court produced
                    whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid, did acknowledge himselfe
                    to be holden & firmly bound unto the said John Baker in the full
                    sume of twenty thousand pounds of good sound Mrchantable tobacco
                    in cask to be paid to the said John or to his certaine Attorney his
                    Exrs Adrs or assignes To the which payment well & truely to be made
                    the said Vincent did binde himself e his heyres Exrs & Admrs firmly
                    by those pTsents Notwithstanding which the said Vincent in his life
                    tyme nor the said Samuell since his death to whom Admcon of all &
                    singuler the Goods Chattels rights & Creditts which were of the said
                    Vincent since his Death hath bin comitted the said sume of twenty
                    thousand pounds of tobacco to him the said John Baker although
                    often thereunto required according to the tenour of the said writeing
                p. 515  obligatory Hath not paid, but the same to pay hath denyed & as yet
                    doth deny, whereupon the said John Baker saith he is damnified &
                    hath losse to the Value of five thousand pounds of tobacco, & there
                    upon he bringeth his suite
                      And the aforesaid Samuel by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh
                    & defendeth the force & injury when &c And the said Samuell
                    prayeth the heareing of the writeing obligatory aforesaid & itt is
                    read unto him, he also prayeth the heareing of the Condicoñ of the
                    writeing obligatory aforesaid & itt is read unto him in these words
                    vizt the Condicön of this Obligacon is such, that if the above bounden
                    Vincent Atchinson his heyres Exrs & Admrs or any of them doe &
                    shall well & truely acknowledge by good & firme Deeds or Con
                    veyances in the Law in open Court in the County of Kent aforesaid
                    one tract of land called by the name of Colchister lying & being in
                    the County aforesaid on the North side of Chester river above the
                    devideing containing & laid out for One thousand acres more or
                    lesse att or before the last day of March next ensueing the date
                    hereof without any further delay fraud or covin, that then this
                    present obligacon to be void & of none effect Otherwise to stand
                    & be in full force & vertue Which being read & heard the said Samuell
                    by his Attorney aforesaid prayeth liberty to imparle hereunto untill
                    next Provinciall 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 Lord Baltemore &c Annocp Doni