Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    271

        1678. came the said John Baker by his Attorney aforesaid & offered Liber N N
        himselfe agt the said Samuel in the plea aforesaid, but the said Sam
        uel came not but made default, therefore itt is considered by the
        Court here that the said John Baker recover agt the Estate of the said
        Vincent Atchinson the aforesaid debt of twenty thousand pounds of
        tobacco As also five hundred fifty two pounds of tobacco costs of
        suite


       Edward Inglish John Stansby late of Baltemore County Chirurgion
           agt was Attached to Answer unto Edward Inglish
       John Stansby Mrchant of a plea of trespas upon the case
                    And whereupon the said Edward Inglish by Rob
        ert Ridgely his Attorney complaineth, that whereas the said John
        Stansby the Eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord God
        One thousand six hundred seventy five bought had & received of the
        said Edward divers goods & Mrchandizes att divers days & tymes
        from the said Eleventh day of March in the yeare aforesaid untill
        the fifteenth day of March then next following A particuler
        whereof is by the said Edward here in Court produced amounting
        in the whole to the sume of flue thousand six hundred twenty & three
        pds of tobacco In consideracon whereof the said John Stansby did
        assume upon himselfe & to the said Edward Inglish did faithfully
        promise, that he the said John Stansby when thereunto required the 516
        said sume of five thousand six hundred twenty & three pds of tobacco
        to him the said Edward would well & truely content & pay Never
        theles The said John Stansby his promise & assumpcOn so as afore
        said made not reguarding, but deviseing & fraudulently intending
        him the said Edward of the said five thousand six hundred twenty &
        three pounds of tobacco to deceive & defraud, the said John although
        often thereunto required the same to him the said Edward hath not
        paid, but the same to pay hath denyed & yet doth deny to the damage
        of the said Edward six thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon
        he bringeth his suite.
         And the said John Stansby by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
        cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liherty
        of speaking 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 thirteenth day of April in the
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annocp
        Doni 1678 came the said Edward Inglish by his Attorney aforesaid
        & offered himselfe agt the said John Stansby in the plea aforesaid,
        but the said John Stansby came not but made default Therefore itt
        is considered by the Court here that the said Edward Inglish recover
        agt the said John Stansby the sume of five thousand six hundred
        twenty & three pounds of tobacco damages occasioned by the trespas
        aforesaid As also five hundred eighty foure pounds of tobacco costs
        of suite