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        offered himselfe agt the said Elizabeth Green in the plea aforesaid, Liber N N
        but the said Elizabeth came not but made default therefore itt is
        considered by the Court here that the said John Burridge recover agt
        the said Elizabeth the aforesaid debt of three thousand one hundred
        thirty eight pounds of tobacco As also five hundred thirty six pounds
        of tobacco costs of suite


        Proprietary Memorandum that att a Provinciall Court held the p. 528
        agt ninth day of ffebruary in the first yeare of the
       Tho:  Todd Exr Dominion of Charles &c came here in Court Kenelm
        Tho: ToddCheseldyn Attorney Gen” of the said Lord Propry
        who for the said Lord Propry in this behalfe prose
        cuteth, and Exhibited his certaine Informacon agt Thomas Todd Exr
        of the last Will & testamt of the said Thomas Todd deceased, & giveth
        the Court here to understand & be Informed.
         That whereas Thomas Todd late of Cecil County deceased in
        his life tyme to witt the thirteenth day of ffebruary in the three &
        fortieth yeare of the Dominion of Cecilius &c Annoq Doni One
        thousand six hundred seventy foure became holden & firmly bounden
        unto the right Honble Cecilius then Lord & Propry of this Province
        in his life tyme in the sume of thirty thousand pounds of tobacco in
        caske to be paid to the said Lord Propry or to his certaine Attorney
        his heyres Exrs Adrs or assignes, to the which paymt well & truely
        to be made he did binde himself e his heyres Exrs firmly by those
        prsents Notwithstanding which the said Thomas Todd in his life
        tyme though often thereunto required the same hath not paid to the
        right Honble Cecilius in his life tyme, nor to the right Honble Charles
        Absolute Lord & Propry of this Province since his death, nor the said
        Thomas Todd Exr of the last Will & Testamt of the said Tho: Todd
        deceased though often thereunto required, but the same to pay
        hitherto hath & still doth deny to the damage of the said Lord
        Propry forty thousand pounds of tobacco Whereupon the said Kenelm
        Cheseldyn as aforesaid prayeth advice in the prmisses And that the
        said Thomas Todd Exr as aforesaid may come here in Court to
        Answer in & upon the same to the said Lord Propry
         And the said Thomas Todd by Thomas Long the Attorney of the
        said Thomas Todd cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c &
        prayeth hearing the writeing aforesaid & itt is read unto him, he also
        prayeth hearing the Condicon of the said writeing & itt is read unto
        him in these words The Condicon of this Obligacon is such, that of
        the above bounden Arthur Carleton of Cecil County Admr of all &
        singuler the Goods & Chattels & debts of Capt Tho: Carleton late
        of the said County deceased doe make or cause to be made a true &
        perfect Inventory of all & singuler the Goods Chattels & debts of the
        said deceased And the same so made doe exhibitt or cause to be
        exhibited into the Office of probate of Wills & testamts on or before