Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.   281

        John Blakiston And that the said Clement Hill recover agt the said Liber N N
        John Blakiston the sume of seven hundred thirty three pounds of
        tobacco for his costs & charges by him above his defence in this
        behalf e laid out & expended And the said John Blakiston in mercy

        Tho: Robinson Clement Hill was Attached to Answer unto Thomas
            agt Robinson in a plea of trespas upon the case.
      Clement Hill And the said Clement Hill by Kenelm Cheseldyn
                   his Attorney cometh & defendeth the force & injury
        when &s and prayeth liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Pro
        vinciall Court & itt is granted unto him, the same day is given to both
        parties
          Now here att this day to witt the twelfth day of April in the
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoaj
        Doni 1678. came the said Clement Hill by his Attorney aforesaid,
        but the said Thomas Robinson came not but made default There
        fore itt is considered by the Court here that a Nonsuite be Awarded
        against the said Tho: Robinson And that the said Clement Hill
        recover agt the said Tho: Robinson the sume of seven hundred thirty
        three pounds of tobacco for his costs and charges by him about his
        defence in this behalfe laid out & expended And the said Tho: Robin
        son in mercy

        Aprill 11th 1678
          I doe hereby acknowledge satisfaction upon Record of the Judge
        ment obtained by John & Nathaniel Howell Exrs of Thomas Howell
        agt George Wells & Johannah Goldsmith.
                                 Robert Carvile Att p quer

        Jno & Nathaniel Thomas Long Sheriffe of Baltemore County was
        Howell Exrs Tho: Attached to Answer unto John & Nathaniel
        Howell.      Howell Exrs of the last Will & testament of
          agt Thomas Howell deceased of a plea of trespas of
        Tho: Long    the case.
                      And whereupon the said John & Nathaniel by
        Robert Carvile their Attorney say, that the said Thomas Long upon
        the thirteenth day of March One thousand six hundred seventy seven
        standing justly indebted unto the said John & Nathaniel in the sume
        of five thousand one hundred ninety three pounds of tobacco, he the
        said Thomas Long in consideracOn thereof did assume upon him
        selfe & to the said John and Nathaniel did faithfully promise that
        he the said Tho: Long the said sume to them the said John &
        Nathaniel when thereunto required would well & truely satisfie & pay
        Yet notwithstanding the said Thomas Long the said sume of five
        thousand one hundred ninety three pds of tob To them the said John 525
        & Nathaniel though often thereunto required hath not paid or satis